Piscataway, NJ 1/29/09—GE Healthcare announced that it has entered into a distribution agreement with Fisher Scientific, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific. Fisher Scientific will distribute a range of GE Healthcare Life Sciences products in North America, including film, electrophoresis, chromatography and nucleic acid purification products. “The presence Fisher Scientific has in the academic, pharmaceutical and […]
Company Announcements Under an agreement announced in December 2008, inXitu will design and manufacture a portfolio of portable X-ray diffraction (XRD) instruments exclusively for Innov-X Systems, including the Terra field-portable XRD/X-ray fluorescence (XRF) system. In January, Thermo Fisher Scientific opened a demonstration lab in Sugar Land, Texas, for its X-ray spectrometry petrochemical solutions and launched […]
Santa Clara, CA 2/17/09—Due to lower than expected fiscal first-quarter revenues, Agilent Technologies has announced a restructuring of its global infrastructure operations, the shut down of two small board-inspection businesses in the Electronic Measurement unit and the layoff of 600 employees. The restructuring is expected to reduce ongoing operating costs by $150 million. Agilent estimates […]
Columbus, OH 2/5/09—Mettler-Toledo International announced that it has initiated a Cost Reduction Program that will reduce its workforce by 5%, or 600 people. Other cost containment measures will also be undertaken. The Program is expected to reduce operational costs by more than $40 million on an annual basis. The company expects to record pre-tax restructuring […]
An overlooked segment of the MS market is time-of-flight (TOF) LC/MS, which will exceed $80 million in sales in 2009, excluding the much larger Q-TOF MS market. Although LC-TOF MS does not posses many of the capabilities of more expensive MS techniques, it fills an important price-to-performance segment of the market, and has the potential […]
Hercules, CA 1/12/09—Bio-Rad Laboratories has acquired certain assets of SafePath Laboratories’ food diagnostics business. The acquisition will add serological immunoassay test kits for Trichinella, Toxoplasma and Salmonella pathogens to Bio-Rad’s food diagnostics product line. “With these products we are realizing our goal to be a one-stop shop for our customers’ food safety testing needs,” said […]
As the US stimulus bill nears passage, the focus on federal government funding of R&D has increased. It is hoped that the stimulus funding will make up some of the declines in US federal R&D funding this fiscal year (see IBO 10/15/08). The drop in federal R&D funding, when adjusted for inflation, over the past […]
Last year was another year of upheaval for R&D operations at the top pharmaceutical companies. Big pharma continued to undergo extensive changes as firms sought to increase the odds of successful drug discovery and development, while reducing R&D costs, in order to maintain profitability as drug patents expire. In addition, new CEOs at Eli Lilly […]
Next-generation sequencing is among the fastest-growing markets in the life science instrument market, with 2009 instrument demand estimated to increase more than 40%. The advent of next-generation sequencing has birthed the need for novel approaches to sample preparation (for the purpose of this article, sample preparation encompasses purification, fragmentation, target capture and enrichment prior to […]
Company Announcements Nanosurf AG appointed RL Artal as its official agent for Hungary and Anamet SRO as its distributor for the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Nikon Instruments signed a value-added reseller agreement to sell the ChromoDynamics’ HSi-300 Hyperspectral Imaging System with its Eclipse 90i and Ti series of microscopes. The System addresses the removal of […]
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