The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) reports that the world’s hectarage of biotech crops increased 19.4% to 125 million hectares in 2008. Cropnosis estimates that the market value (based on the sale price of the seed and technology fees) of biotech crops grew 8.7% in 2008 to $7.5 billion to account […]
Viscosity is a general property of fluids that measures how “thick” the fluid is. More precisely, viscosity measures a fluid’s response to physical stresses. The more a fluid resists being deformed by the stress, the greater its viscosity. The most basic mathematical definition for viscosity originated from Issac Newton, who postulated that the relationship between […]
Loveland, CO 2/10/09—Hach announced that it has acquired OPS Systems and the assets of WaterEye. Based in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, OPS provides water-related reporting and analysis, preventive maintenance and LIMS (laboratory information management solutions) software solutions for water, wastewater and industrial plant operations. WaterEye provides web-based information management solutions. As a result of the […]
Company Announcements Proxeon integrated its EASY-nLC system software with Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Xcalibur software and became a Thermo Fisher Scientific Virtual Instrument Partner. Varian and Flora Research Laboratories formed an alliance in October 2008 to advance the implementation of LC/MS for complex dietary supplement analysis. JASCO released drivers for Applied Biosystems/MDS Analytical Technologies’ Analyst software […]
In 2007, China’s R&D spending rose 23.5% to CNY 371 billion ($48.8 billion) to account for 1.49% of GDP. The national government‘s R&D spending grew 25.2 % to CNY 42.5 billion to make up 4.25% of its expenditures. R&D by companies, government-affiliated research institutes, and colleges and universities accounted for 72.3%, 18.5% and 8.5% of […]
Following Pfizer’s plan to acquire Wyeth and Roche’s bid for Genentech, other big pharmaceutical firms may be considering major acquisitions. Sanofi-Aventis is reported to be interested in purchasing Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS). The companies currently comarket Plavix. However, BMS’s future patent expirations and changes in leadership at Sanofi-Aventis could deter the deal. Merck & Co. has […]
Company Announcements Under a research agreement, NuGEN Technologies will develop a Roche NimbleGen array application for small, degraded and compromised samples for use with its WT-Ovation technology. Biogemma will use Roche NimbleGen’s Sequence Capture technology to develop new technologies for large-scale genomic marker discovery in plants. Febit announced a strategic collaboration with In-Q-Tel for the […]
Portability has long been touted as a powerful capability of molecular spectroscopy systems, and in the last couple of years portable molecular spectroscopy has gained momentum, especially with the introduction of portable Raman systems. In fact, a number of new products have recently been introduced to the market (see IBO 3/15/08). Among the advantages of […]
The new year began with much of the same disheartening economic news as the previous year’s end, including escalating unemployment rates, subdued retail sales, corporate profit warnings and unrelenting liquidity concerns in the banking sector. For the first two trading weeks of the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and NASDAQ declined 8.3%, […]
The US Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) has delayed by one year the enforcement of certain requirements of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), which were to take effect on February 10. The CPSIA implements new certification and testing requirements for products, including toys and other products for children under 12. The limits on […]
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