Strategic Information for the Life Science and Analytical Instrument Industry
A new report from Strategic Directions International (SDi), a business intelligence firm specializing in the analytical instrument market, finds that the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2024 and 2029 of demand in the cell and gene therapy (C>) market for seven categories of analytical technologies will expand in the high single digits. The technology […]
10x Genomics has begun shipping its latest Flex assay for its Chromium instrument platform, responding to the needs of the single-cell sequencing market for easy to use, higher-throughput and scalable solutions. For example, the burgeoning field of cell atlases, or maps of an organism’s cells, requiring larger data sets and thus the faster generation of […]
As the life science analytical instrument industry faces the challenges presented by uncertain government and academic funding and slower CapEx spending by biopharma companies, plus nervousness from potential investors, companies introducing new technology for life science research are facing a more difficult environment for raising money. Formed earlier this year, Precision Cell Systems (PCS) is […]
The first analytica USA exhibition and conference will be held in Columbia, Ohio, from September 10 to 12. This is the first time analytica, a series of lab technology, analysis and biotech exhibitions held worldwide by trade fair organization Messe München, will take place in the US. analytica USA will host 260 plus exhibitors. analytica […]
Founded in 2020, Syncell launched its first products at the beginning of last year. The Microscoop Mint and Synlight photolabeling kit and Synpull protein extraction reagents together offer a subcellular solution for spatial proteomics by utilizing laser nano-pulldown (LNP). In 2024, the company closed a $15 million Series A funding, led by Taiwania Capital. The […]
Tariff announcements and changes in the academic and government funding landscape in the US are the latest challenges facing the laboratory tools industry. But, according to Strategic Directions International’s (SDi’s) 2025 “Global Assessment Report,” despite these challenges and others, the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for laboratory instruments will increase in coming years. Five-Year Market […]
One likely effect of the new US government’s recent actions to disrupt NIH grant funding to US universities has been a hit to stock prices of suppliers of life science instrumentation for university R&D. The Trump Administration’s actions include restrictions and terminations of grants, as well as delays or cancellations of grant review meetings and […]
The recent plan by the Trump Administration to cap indirect costs for NIH academic research, which has been put on hold by a federal judge, as well as cuts to several other agencies that are major funders of R&D, has put the spotlight on federal R&D spending. This month, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) National […]
The SLAS2025 International Conference and Exhibition, one of the annual conferences of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS), will be held at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California, from January 25 to 29. SLAS is a professional society whose members include researchers as well as developers and providers of lab […]
Founded in Germany in 1956, family-owned LAUDA DR. R. WOBSER GMBH & CO. KG (LAUDA) has become one of the most well-known companies for laboratory temperature-control equipment. Today, the company boasts $120 million in annual sales and a workforce of 600. End-markets served include the pharma/biotech (32% of sales), automotive (20%), chemical (20%), medicine (10%) […]
