The US dollar continued to slide in November reaching a 15-month low against the euro. Other factors influencing the markets were better than expected US home sales and a decline in unemployment claims. However, consumer confidence levels and manufacturing activity declined this month. In addition, on November 24, the US Commerce Department revised downward the […]
London, UK 10/20/09 and 11/17/09; Manchester, UK 10/19/09—Millbrook Scientific Instruments, maker of the NanoTest nanomechanical test system, has delisted its stock from London’s AIM exchange. The company sought to cancel its listing in order to reduce costs, limit competitive exposure and reduce the time burden on management. The company has also changed its name to […]
Madison, WI 11/3/09—Life science research instrument company Illumina has filed suit against microarray provider Affymetrix in the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. Illumina alleges infringement of US Patent No. 7,612,020 (Composite Array Utilizing Microspheres With a Hybridization Chamber) by Affymetrix’s Array Plate products, the GeneChip HT Array Plate Scanner, GeneChip HT […]
Billerica, MA 11/23/09—Millipore has acquired the remaining 60% ownership of its joint venture in India. Based in Bangalore, Millipore India is primarily a sales, service and manufacturing organization with approximately 300 employees. “By establishing direct operations in the country, we will be able to more effectively execute our strategy and leverage our unique capabilities to […]
Enschede, The Netherlands 11/16/09—Concept to Volume BV (C2V) has announced its acquisition by Thermo Fisher Scientific. C2V’s micro-GC products and customized MEMS (microelectric mechanical system) solution, which features an integrated micro chip technology with narrow bore capillary GC columns (see IBO 3/15/08). The products will be sold under the Thermo Scientific brand. “The acquisition is […]
Santa Clara, CA 11/16/09—Agilent Technologies has acquired MassCode technology from Eurofins MWG Group for an undisclosed amount. MassCode Tags are small molecules with unique molecular weights that are used to screen for specific pathogens. Tags are attached to DNA primers corresponding to microbial sequences. The primers are used to amplify nucleic acid using PCR. The […]
Sequential improvements in quarterly revenue growth provided some good news for major, publicly held analytical and life science instrument and laboratory product companies in the calendar-year third quarter. But despite the trend, revenues were down year over year for seven of the nine companies whose results are presented in the table on page 10. Fourth-quarter […]
R&D investments by 2,000 of the world’s largest companies grew 6.9% in aggregate in fiscal 2008, compared to 9.0% growth in fiscal 2008, according to the European Commission’s “2009 EU Industrial R&D Scoreboard.” The Scoreboard tracks R&D spending by 1,000 EU and 1,000 non-EU firms. The economic downturn’s effect on these industrial sectors is not […]
Glow Discharge Spectroscopy (GDS) is a spectroscopic technique designed for use with solid samples, primarily metals. One advantage of GDS is that it enables depth profiling of a sample. In a GDS system, a solid sample absorbs energy from a plasma of argon ions, causing atom to sputter from the sample’s surface. As the electrons […]
Company Announcements In September, Denator AB announced an exclusive distribution agreement for the UK and Ireland with Scientific & Medical Products for its Stabilizor T1 system. Life Technologies and febit holding GmbH entered into a strategic comarketing agreement for re-sequencing studies for their respective SOLiD next-generation sequencing system and HybSelect Sequence Capture solution. Febit also […]
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