Austin, TX 3/25/10; New York, NY 3/25/10—Luminex has acquired BSD Robotics, an Australian company that specializes in the automation and robotics of dry-sample handling, for $5 million and future earn-out payments. “There is great potential to combine our technologies and expertise to create new products and reach scientists in many industry sectors, from genetic testing […]
Bad Ragaz, Switzerland 1/29/10—INFICON has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Agilent’s micro GC business. The divestiture by Agilent is required by the EU as a condition for approval of Agilent’s acquisition of Varian (see IBO 1/31/10, 2/15/10). Earlier this month, Agilent agreed to sell three other product lines as part of the EU’s requirements […]
In late March, the US Administration’s Office of Science and Technology Policy published its summary of research infrastructure funding in President Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget (October 1, 2010–September 30, 2011). The budget request is likely to be changed before it is approved by Congress; therefore, initial figures for fiscal 2011 are incomplete. However, the report […]
Warm and sunny days welcomed visitors to Analytica 2010 at Messe München GmbH in Munich, Germany, on March 23 through March 26. The good weather encouraged visitors to lunch outside and enjoy the sunshine. The external environment was more than matched by the positive atmosphere in all five exhibit halls, where enthusiastic crowds gathered. Normally, […]
India’s 2010–2011 budget proposal increased funding for the Ministry of Science and Technology by 17.0% to INR 4825 crore ($1.1 billion). Within the Ministry, the Department of Biotechnology’s budget rose 19.3% to INR 1222 crore, 32% of which goes to R&D, a 15.7% increase. The budget for the Department of Science and Technology, also part […]
Water, the most commonly used reagent/solvent, is one of the simplest compounds, yet it is also one of the most complex. There are many different types of contaminants found in water: inorganics, like magnesium and calcium; microorganisms; and suspended particles. Many techniques are used to remove impurities from water. The oldest and most basic method […]
Company Announcements Millipore named Dr. Robert S. Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT, to its Board. He replaces Dr. Daniel Bellus. PerkinElmer OneSource, which provides an integrated service suit, and VWR are developing a joint offering for multivendor maintenance and qualification services. PerkinElmer’s Chief Administrative Officer Richard F. Walsh announced he will […]
Company Announcements ATCC announced an exclusive distribution agreement with Biological Industries for Israel. Affomix is providing the City of Hope with recombinant antibodies that are designed to be readily tagged with oligonucleotide “zipcodes,” making them compatible with next-generation sequencers. City of Hope will generate proteomic profile characteristics of a number of cancers. In January, VisEn […]
Company Announcements Fluxion Biosciences added DI Biotech as a Korean distributor for the BioFlux, and Novel Science as a distributor for Japan for the BioFlux and IonFlux. Beckman Coulter entered into a five-year agreement in December 2009 to distribute CompuCyte’s laser-scanning cytometers. The agreement is exclusive outside of North America. Cyntellect named four new exclusive […]
The instruments that would become J-KEM Scientific’s first offerings were not designed to be purchased. Before Robert Elliot, founder and president, started the company in 1987, he was the leader of a herbicide discovery research group at Monsanto. At the time, his electronics hobby led him to develop instruments for his group, including a temperature […]
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