Santa Clara, CA 2/1/07—Intevac has acquired the assets and certain liabilities of Raman spectroscopy company DeltaNu for an undisclosed amount. Intevac is a developer of low light imaging sensors, cameras and systems and a supplier of magnetic media supporting equipment. Based in Laramie, Wyoming, DeltaNu’s products include handheld and benchtop Raman spectroscopy instruments and Raman […]
R&D activities in India have been booming: while the country only spent $2.9 billion on R&D in 2001, by 2004, this figure reached $24 billion. R&D spending is expected to reach $27.5 billion by 2010, and swell to $119 billion—2.7% of India’s estimated GDP—by 2020. There are currently 130 domestic firms and 220 multinational companies […]
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced regulations last week that will lower airborne pollutants over the next 25 years. Most significantly for oil refineries, the rules require that benzene levels be cut. On average, benzene made up roughly 1% of US gas in 2004. This proportion will be brought down to an average of 0.62% […]
The FDA plans to define the term “gluten-free” for the purposes of food labeling. The FDA has produced a draft proposal in January and is accepting comments on the proposal until April. According to the FDA, a gluten-free food does not contain wheat, rye or barley; it also should not contain any ingredient made from […]
Cambridge, UK 1/29/07, Maynard, MA 1/29/07 and Columbus, OH 1/29/07—BioWisdom, a developer of software for business information analysis in the healthcare industry, and OmniViz, a company that specializes in software for data visualization, have announced that they will unite under the BioWisdom name. Gordon Baxter, CEO of BioWisdom, said that “this transaction is an important […]
While President Bush’s proposed budget for FY08 would increase the total federal R&D investment by 1.4% to $143.0 billion, federal support of basic and applied research would decline to $55.4 billion, a 2% drop from the FY07 budget. Not including NASA, the total budget increase for nondefense R&D agencies is only 0.8%, below the national […]
In January 2005, India achieved compliance with the World Trade Organization’s Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, which, among other things, protect drug patents. Last September, Biocon’s BIOMAb-EGFR became the first new drug to be developed, tested and taken through approval by an Indian company. However, of India’s estimated 20,000 drug firms, few are developing […]
Foster City, CA 1/25/07—Tony White told investors on the Applied Biosystems’ quarterly conference call that he plans to continue as interim president of the company for the next one-to-two years. Mr. White took over the position three months ago following the resignation of Catherine Burzik (see IBO 10/31/06). “As of now, the Board of Directors […]
Poissy, France 1/17/07—Environnement SA has acquired the assets of Becker Messtechnik, a developer of instruments for the continuous sampling and monitoring of dioxins. “The acquisition of Becker Messtechnik, which was moreover, one of our suppliers and which we therefore know particularly well, will strengthen our technological expertise in pollutant measuring,” said Environnement SA Chairman François […]
The global area of biotech crops grew 13% to 102 million hectares (252 million acres) in 2006. The US leads the world, with 54.6 million hectares (134.9 million acres) of biotech crops, followed by Argentina with 18 million hectares (44.5 million acres) and Brazil with 11.5 million hectares (28.4 million acres). India posted the largest […]
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