The announcement of the US federal budget for fiscal year 2008 (October 1, 2007–September 30, 2008) was grim news for science R&D supporters. According to a preliminary analysis by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the total US federal R&D budget increased only 1.2% for fiscal 2008 to $142,715 million. This amount […]
This month, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the Human Microbiome Project. The human microbiome is comprised of the genomes of every micro-organism in humans. The Project will provide $115 million over five years to sequence and characterize at least 600 microbial genomes. Samples will be grown in laboratories and collected from the digestive […]
In October, Applied Biosystems officially launched the SOLiD System DNA sequencing platform, capable of producing four billion bases of sequence data per run. PerkinElmer released the Geliance 1000 Imaging System for 2D gels. Shimadzu Japan introduced the MCE-202 MultiNA microchip electrophoresis system, featuring a reusable microchip. The company aims to sell a minimum of 400 […]
Waltham, MA 12/20/07—Thermo Fisher Scientific has purchased La-Pha-Pack, a provider of chromatography consumables and accessories. Based in Langerwehe, Germany, La-Pha-Pack has revenues of approximately $25 million. “This acquisition will significantly strengthen our chromatography offering in Europe by complementing our existing specialty brand, Chromacol, which is manufactured in the UK,” said Thermo Fisher Scientific President and […]
Inkarp Instruments and SciTech became exclusive distributors for JPK Instruments for India and Australia, respectively. Imago Scientific Instruments named founder and CTO Tom Kelly, PhD, president and CEO in September. Timothy J. Stultz, PhD, former CEO, was named chairman. In October, Asylum Research opened a subsidiary in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. In November, Asylum Research announced that […]
In 2006, total R&D spending was SGD 5,010 million ($3,154.3 million), or 2.39% of GDP. Forty-three percent of this spending went to R&D personnel, other operating costs accounted for 39% and capital expenditure made up 18%. Two-thirds of total R&D spending came from private industry and 12%, 11% and 10% came from public research institutes, […]
In September, DeltaNu appointed Gilden Photonics as its new distributor for the UK and Ireland. Polychromix signed a strategic investment and technology advancement agreement with In-Q-Tel. Scinco named Cosa Instruments the exclusive US distributor of its PDA UV/Vis spectrophotometers. Ocean Optics, a Halma company, promoted Rob Randelman, PhD, vice president of Sales and Marketing, to […]
According to government estimates, 2007 Canadian R&D spending reached almost CAD 29.0 billion ($27.1 billion), a 3.3% increase over 2006’s CAD 28.1 billion ($24.8 billion). Academia accounted for 50.0%, or CAD 459 million ($428.2 million) of the increase, and industry accounted for 45.4%, or CAD 416 million ($388.1 million). Industry was the largest performer of […]
Park Systems released the XE-NSOM/Raman AFM for near-field optical microscopy and Raman spectrometry, featuring Raman technology provided by Horiba Jobin Yvon. Leica Microsystems introduced the SD6000 Spinning Disk Confocal module for visualizing biological processes in live cells in real time. Oxford Instruments released the 50 mm2 Si(Li) transmission electron microscope (TEM) energy dispersive detector for […]
Santa Clara CA 12/18/07—Affymetrix has agreed to acquire USB, a manufacturer of molecular biology and biochemical reagents, for approximately $75 million in cash. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, USB offers three major product lines: molecular biology enzymes and kits, biochemical reagents and products for membrane protein research. “The integration of USB’s biochemical reagents with Affymetrix’s current […]
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