Twelve of the 21 companies in the IBO Laboratory Instrument Sales Index reported fourth-quarter earnings before this issue’s publication. For these companies, revenues grew 7.5%, operating profits climbed 11.0% and operating margins improved 80 basis points to 21.0% of sales. Total fourth-quarter revenue and operating profits for the Index are estimated to have grown 5%–6% […]
An effort to increase the sensitivity and specificity of the analyses of toxic metal impurities in drug articles (including natural source and rDNA biologics), dietary supplements and excipients is advancing, and could benefit makers of Inductively Coupled Plasma–Optical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-OES), ICP-MS and microwave digestion systems. The January/February issue of the US Pharmacopeia’s (USP) Pharmacopeial […]
Downsizing, outsourcing and restructuring continue to be major themes for R&D operations at the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. Since fall of 2009, five major drug companies have announced R&D restructurings. In fact, for most of these companies, the latest announcements are extensions of similar efforts within the last two years to improve R&D productivity and […]
ArtusLabs is a phoenix of sorts. Rising from the ashes of Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) supplier Synthematix, ArtusLabs is focused on creating data analysis tools for its core informatics platform, the Ensemble for Life Sciences. The North Carolina company has 15 employees and has received $3.1 million in first round funding. Robin Smith, CEO of […]
In the January 31 issue of IBO, the first Executive Briefing on page 2 discussed the divestment of four businesses required by the EU for approval of Agilent’s purchase of Varian. IBO incorrectly identified that Varian’s micro GC business would be sold. It is Agilent’s micro GC business that will be divested.
The importance of a company’s web site for sales and marketing is common knowledge. For life science research consumables, online sales and marketing are especially important. Rapid advances in the life science field, as well as the specialization and customization of reagents, kits and consumables used for life science research make purchasing online a natural […]
Waters recently unveiled the latest addition to its family of ACQUITY Ultraperformance LC (UPLC) systems, the H-Class. It joins the suite of products, which includes the original ACQUITY UPLC system, the nanoACQUITY system and the PATROL UPLC process analyzer. In terms of product performance, the H-Class bridges the gap between Waters’s Alliance HPLC and ACQUITY […]
The new year has brought uncertainty, as investors fear the economic recovery may be a masquerade. New US economic data revealed a sharp decline in home sales and a smaller-than-expected improvement in durable-goods orders and jobless claims. In addition, the political divergence between the major banks and Obama Administration over regulations, coupled with the uncertainty […]
The 14th annual LabAutomation conference and exhibit sponsored by the Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) was held January 25–17 in Palm Springs, California. The lively gathering attracted 4,113 attendees, a 3.0% decrease from 2009. The number of exhibitors also declined, with a 7.3% drop in exhibitors to 233. This year, MS seemed to be more […]
After taking a slight hit in 2009, the cell analysis research market is expected to be back on track for growth in 2010, according to Strategic Directions International’s “Cell Analysis Techniques, Market Forecast 2010–2014”. For the year, the cell analysis research market’s growth is estimated to be in the high single digits, and will reach […]
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