Company Announcements In September, TESCAN USA opened an applications and demonstrations lab in Pleasanton, California, for customers in the Western Region of North America. FEI in September partnered with Oregon Health & Science University to create the Living Lab for Cell Biology, run by Joe Gray, PhD, to advance cancer research and next-generation research tools […]
Company Announcements In June, Boval Company, a manufacturer of cell culture and diagnostic biological raw materials, acquired Chata Biosystems, a supplier of custom solutions that specialized in HPLC media. Coloradoan.com reported that Boval acquired the name and instruments business, and that the remainder of the firm was renamed CHD Bioscience. In October, Novasep entered into […]
Company Announcements Roche NimbleGen named the University of Iowa’s Roy J. Carver Center for Genomics as a Certified Service Provider for comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) and gene expression. NanoInk named four new exclusive distributors: SciTech for Australia and New Zealand; Gaia Science for Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam; NanoGulf for the United Arab […]
Company Announcements GE announced in its quarterly conference call that second-quarter sales for GE Healthcare Life Sciences increased 7%. Sigma-Aldrich’s second-quarter sales grew 15.0% to $637.0 million (see IBO 7/31/11) or 6% organically. Currency effects and acquisitions increased sales 7.8% and 1.6%, respectively. Research Essentials, Research Specialties, Research Biotech and Fine Chemicals revenues grew 17%, […]
Last month, the Chinese State Council said it will spend $5.5 billion over 10 years to improve monitoring of and cleanup technologies for groundwater. Groundwater is the source of drinking water for about 70% of the Chinese population. The Ministry of Land and Resources claims that 90% of the country’s shallow groundwater is polluted, with […]
For the first half of 2011, corporate venture funds comprised 12% of overall venture capital investment, up from 5.3% in 2010, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. Corporate venture funds were responsible for 25% of early-stage biotech financing in the first half of this year, versus 15% for all of last year. […]
Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development has endorsed the Innovative Russia 2020 plan to increase the country’s research investment. The Russian government intends to spend RUB 1.1 trillion ($35.9 billion) annually on research over the next ten years. The plan should boost Russian science spending to 2.5% of GDP. The plan also aims to increase Russia’s […]
EvaluatePharma predicts some shuffling of the list of the world’s top drug firms through 2016. The top spot, which Pfizer has held for nine years, will be usurped by Sanofi next year. Sanofi’s projected five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4% should allow it to maintain first place through 2016. Novartis is expected to […]
This month, the FDA launched a DNA-barcode library for 250 fish species, which can be accessed by outside labs and the public. The library is the result of a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution to standardize testing methods using DNA sequencing in order to combat seafood fraud. Popular seafood such as red snapper, wild salmon […]
Subvisible particles are a concern in the biopharmaceutical industry due to their possible correlation with immunogenicity. The impact of subvisible particles on biologics is unknown but potentially adverse, and is complicated by the lack of technologies that can adequately measure them. Subvisible particles are usually defined as those that are too big for analysis with […]
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