Strategic Information for the Life Science and Analytical Instrument Industry
In the past few years, select governments around the world have emphasized the societal importance of clean water by passing legislation for safer drinking water and combating climate change and other environmental hazards. Water testing is one of the many avenues that scientists and others utilize to monitor water safety and pollution. Laboratories could not […]
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 […]
10x Genomics (10x) is a US-based life science technology company that manufactures genomic and cell analysis technology for scientific research applications. Specifically, the firm’s products and offerings cater to end-users conducting bulk, single-cell and spatial biology analyses. Due to being part of the research scientific tools market, 10x’s co-founder and CEO Serge Saxonov, Ph.D., presented […]
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%) […]
The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 highlighted the importance of the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical sectors as scientists worked tirelessly utilizing analytical and scientific instruments to create vaccines to combat the virus. Now that the pandemic has subsided, both the pharma and biotech markets are struggling with issues such as lack of funding for […]
According to KPMG’s CEO Outlook reports between 2021 and 2023, M&A was a crucial growth strategy for executives. Specifically, CEOs believed M&A deals were a way to drive sales growth for companies and moderate external factors such as potential emerging technology disruptions, regulatory demands, and geopolitical and macroeconomic concerns. Additionally, executives who participated in the […]
