Company Announcements Agilent and Sage Science signed a comarketing agreement in February for Agilent’s 2100 Bioanalyzer and Sage Science’s Pippin Prep DNA size-selection system. Life Technologies introduced a fourth $1 million challenge in its Life Grand Challenges Contest: to sequence the genome and all RNA content derived from a single cancer cell using the 5500 […]
Company Announcements In January, RainDance Technologies closed a Series D financing round of $37.5 million, coled by Mohr Davidow Ventures and new investor Quaker BioVentures. Precision System Science entered into a supply and distribution agreement with IntegenX for its SX-8G Compact Automated Nucleic Acid Extractor, which will be cobranded as the Apollo 324. In February, […]
Company Announcements SPECTRO Analytical Instruments GmbH formed a strategic marketing alliance with SII NanoTechnology in February to market its ICP-OES and ICP-MS systems in Japan. SPECTRO will continue to support its existing Japanese customers through its subsidiary. In February, PANalytical acquired the XRF laboratories in Keyworth, UK, from the British Geological Survey (BGS). The labs […]
Company Announcements GenomeQuest and Ingenuity Systems integrated their respective Sequence Data Management platform and IPA software. Analytik Jena’s AJ Blomesystem subsidiary, a LIMS supplier, acquired a 55% share in comicon, which develops software modules for lipid chemistry for food analysis. CLC bio will participate in the EU’s COGANGS (Comparative Genomics and Next Generation Sequencing) project […]
In early April, India became a member of the OECD Mutual Acceptance of Data (MAD), an agreement that allows results of nonclinical safety tests performed on chemicals and chemical products in adherence to OECD Test Guidelines and Principles of Good Laboratory Practice to be shared with other member countries. MAD members include all OECD countries, […]
China’s pharmaceutical industry output is expected to grow 20% annually, surpassing CNY 3 trillion ($460.44 billion) in 2015, according to a 12th Five-Year Plan for the industry, which is slated to be published in May. According to Chinese Pharmaceutical Enterprises Association President Yu Mingde, the plan aims for the 100 manufacturers with the highest sales […]
A second meeting regarding science and technology in Latin America took place in March in Mexico, resulting in a plan to enhance the region’s collaborative research. Representatives from 18 Latin American and Caribbean nations attended the meeting. The plan urges policy makers to classify projects for regional collaboration. It also encourages a record of scientific […]
In late April, the NIH released a list of cuts to grant awards in the wake of the final fiscal year 2011 budget. The $30.9 billion allocated to the NIH for fiscal 2011 is almost 1% less than what the agency received in fiscal year 2010. All modular and nonmodular noncompeting research-grant levels from NIH […]
Although mining companies’ profits in 2010 reached an all-time high of more than $50 billion, and the companies are investing to increase their supplies of major raw materials, it probably will not be enough to accommodate strong demand or curb rising commodity prices. Mining companies are increasing capital investment but face numerous obstacles in developing […]
Upon their creation in 2006, induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells were intended to be a less controversial alternative to stem cells, since they were created in a lab instead of by the destruction of embryos. However, several recent studies have shown them to be a less optimal choice. The iPS cells died faster and were […]
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