This month, Bruker introduced its first GC/MS product line, the SCION single quadrupole (SQ) and triple quadrupole (TQ) GC/MS systems. The systems are based on Varian’s GC/MS technology, which Bruker acquired last year (see IBO 3/15/10). Although the SCION GC/MS systems retain the unique 180 degree–curve collision cell design of the Varian 300 and 320 […]
“The coldest winter I ever saw was the summer I spent in San Francisco.” Popularly attributed to Mark Twain, this witticism could well describe the Bay Area weather during Semicon West/Intersolar 2011, which was about ten degrees cooler than average for the season. Fortunately, the atmosphere inside Moscone Center, which hosted the joint semiconductor and […]
Thanks to the new ASTM annex, D7566-11, the 2% of global carbon dioxide emissions that is contributed by passenger jets will be reduced. Standards for testing the “second generation” of biofuels, derived from inedible plants, tallows (animal fats) and organic waste, have been approved to power commercial planes. ASTM has approved testing standards for a […]
In January, when IBO issued its industry forecast for 2011 (see IBO 1/15/11), we were just coming off a year of robust growth and a sense of euphoria. The question was: could we keep up the momentum? Of course, we thought. Early in the year, without the benefit of fourth-quarter results from the previous year, […]
It may not yet be a household name like competitors Bruker or JASCO, but BioTools is holding its own, thanks to a risky investment ten years ago. The firm was incorporated in 2000 with the goal of commercializing vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) and Raman optical activity (ROA) spectrometers. “We were the first company to commercialize […]
R&D spending bounced back last year following the recession. In 2010, total R&D spending in US dollars for 18 major publicly held analytical and life science instrument and laboratory product companies grew 11.3% to $1.54 billion, compared with 2.3% growth for the same companies in 2009. R&D spending for these companies was accelerated by higher […]
First-quarter revenues for the IBO Lab Equipment/Consumables Index grew 3.9%, 2.9% organically, to $3,970.74 million. Operating profit improved 4.0% to $707.69 million, and operating margin added 30 basis points to 18.2% of sales. Diploma was removed from the Index, and Merck Millipore was added. Biohit’s first-quarter sales grew 9.9%, 7.5% excluding currency, to €10.4 million […]
This year marks a new chapter in the second-generation (next-generation or NGS) DNA sequencing market, as a new set of NGS systems hit the market. The first generation of DNA sequencers consisted of capillary electrophoresis (CE) systems employing Sanger sequencing. Third-generation, or single-molecule, systems directly sequence DNA molecules. NGS sequencing technology, which is characterized by […]
According to a new Thomson Reuters Global Research Report, materials science research publications have grown rapidly over the last decade. Close to 60,000 materials science research articles and reviews are published annually. The figure is based on an analysis of the Web of Science database, which contains publications from 11,500 scientific journals. The figure includes […]
Last month, Waters released the ACQUITY UPLC I-Class System, the successor to the original ACQUITY System, which debuted seven years ago. “The system has been designed primarily to increase the capacity, which makes it ideal for LC/MS,” said Liz Hodgdon, senior product manager for Waters. She told IBO that the system is designed for customers […]
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