Although the safety of Chinese food exports to the US has garnered the most attention this year, drug safety has also been high on the agenda of both countries. The prominence of these issues culminated in the countries signing two memoranda of agreement on December 11: one focused on food safety (see page 11) and […]
Another company is set to join the ranks of publicly held analytical instrument companies with annual revenues of more than $1 billion. On December 3, Bruker BioSciences announced a $914 million agreement to acquire Bruker BioSpin (see page 2). Combined, the companies recorded pro forma revenues of $850.5 million in 2006, adjusted operating profit of […]
Pickering Laboratories, a producer of instruments and reagents for post-column analysis, demonstrates that one of the ways to develop a “killer app” is by having a major standards body mandate a testing method that includes its products. The company, located in San Jose, California, was founded by Michael Pickering in 1984. Post-column analysis takes place […]
The boom in the metals market have led to record prices and a steep increase in profits for mining companies. Satisfying the current demand for the minerals to make metals requires new exploration, as well as faster and more efficient mining and processing. Such needs have stimulated demand for automated analysis techniques that provide higher […]
November was another unpredictable month with extreme swings in the equity markets as unrelenting concerns about rising oil prices, consumer spending, credit markets and corporate earnings continued to agonize investors. Over the four days ending November 12 the Dow, S&P 500 and NASDAQ fell 4.9%, 5.3% and 8.5%, respectively. However, on November 26, Federal Reserve […]
This month, several agreements between major instrument industry players and smaller, “niche” manufacturers were announced. The smaller companies in these partnerships should benefit from their larger partners’ sales and distribution networks. For the larger firms, the agreements provide a variety of opportunities, including the chance to offer integrated products and approach applications with entirely new […]
According to the latest figures released by the National Science Foundation (NSF), spending on science and engineering (S&E) R&D at US universities and colleges rose 4.3% in fiscal 2006 (ended September 30, 2006) to $47,476 million. As the pie chart below illustrates, spending by the federal government made up the lion’s share of academic R&D […]
The calendar-year third quarter was yet another quarter of robust growth for major analytical instrument companies, driven by food and environmental testing in foreign markets and steady industrial spending. Five of the nine analytical instrument companies whose financial results are shown in the tables on pages 10 and 11—Agilent Bioanalytical Measurement (BAM), Bruker BioSciences, PerkinElmer […]
This year’s product safety controversies have affected manufacturers, regulators, consumers and laboratories alike. Manufacturers have increased product testing, while new regulatory efforts, by both governments and industry, have renewed calls for reform and scrutiny of the current system in multiple countries. Although it is too early to ascertain the exact effect of these efforts on […]
The Society for Biomolecular Sciences’ (SBS) Symposium, “Back to Pharmacology: Stem Cells and Primary Cells in Drug Discovery,” was held on November 8 and 9 at the Anaheim Marriott Hotel in Anaheim, California. It was one of SBS’ small symposia focused on specific topics that the organization has been holding for a number of years […]
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