In the second quarter of 2008, revenues for IBO’s Laboratory Sales Index grew 13.7% to $4,624 million, compared to growth of 13.3% in second quarter of 2007. Operating profit climbed 20.4% to $747 million, and operating margin climbed 90 basis points to 16.2% of sales. While several companies, such as Affymetrix, Harvard Bioscience and Tecan, […]
Company Announcements Pharmaceutical Services Corporation (PSC) will offer a complete solution of Geospiza software and PSC’s services to organizations that need to integrate genetic analysis into their manufacturing process. GenoLogics partnered with GenVault to introduce the BioVault Biospecimen Management Software. Simulations Plus and Northeastern University are collaborating to measure solubilities in biorelevent fluids. BIOBASE GmbH […]
West Chester, PA 8/4/08—VWR International has acquired Spektrum-3D Kft, a laboratory supply distributor based in Debrecen, Hungary. Financial terms were not disclosed. The company’s products include chemicals, consumables, furniture, equipment and instruments. “This acquisition demonstrates our ongoing commitment to the Central and Eastern European markets and our intention to expand our product and service offerings […]
Over the past 14 years, the annual IBO Design Awards have showcased the best in analytical instrument industrial design. Industrial design encompasses the appearance and form of an instrument. The industrial design is a fundamental part of a product, helping determine how the end-user will evaluate, use, maintain and value a product, and, indirectly, how […]
The outsourcing of drug development and manufacturing to India and China by US companies is escalating because of the high rate of patent expirations. The weak US dollar is also causing foreign investors to pull their money out of India and, in turn, weaken the rupee. India’s larger pharmaceutical companies are reaping the inadvertent benefits […]
Gold Award IBO’s 2008 Gold Award for laboratory equipment design goes to Hamilton’s automatic pipettor, the Microlab Nimbus. The idea for the Nimbus came about after “Hamilton identified an unmet demand in the biopharmaceutical marketplace for . . . automated pipetting in key fundamental applications such as plate replication, serial dilution and reagent additions, while […]
Waltham, MA 7/25/08—Thermo Fisher Scientific has acquired FIBERLite Centrifuge, a supplier of carbon fiber centrifuge rotors. FIBERLite had 2007 revenues of approximately $7 million. “We have been offering FIBERLite rotors as an alternative to aluminum and titanium rotors in our Thermo Scientific laboratory centrifuges for several years, and we have seen customer demand for the […]
New money is flowing to US government agencies, following President Bush’s signing of a supplemental funding bill on June 30. The bill allocated $400 million in new funding to four federal agencies: the National Institutes of Health (NIH) ($150 million), the National Science Foundation (NSF) ($62.5 million), the National Air and Space Administration ($62.5 million) […]
Particle bombardment technology, also known as biological biolistics or bioballistics, is a nonviral, physical gene delivery method in which target cells are transfected using DNA-coated particles. Cornell University horticultural scientist John Sanford and cohorts developed the technique in the early 1980s. The technology is a very effective gene delivery method for plant cells, as it […]
Santa Clara, CA 7/24/08—Affymetrix has purchased a developer of digitally encoded microparticle technology for $25 million in cash. GenomeWeb.com reports that the company is True Materials and that Randy True, the company’s vice president of R&D, has joined Affymetrix. Affymetrix stated that the technology will allow it to enter the low to mid-multiplexing markets and […]
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