Foster City, CA 1/25/07—Tony White told investors on the Applied Biosystems’ quarterly conference call that he plans to continue as interim president of the company for the next one-to-two years. Mr. White took over the position three months ago following the resignation of Catherine Burzik (see IBO 10/31/06). “As of now, the Board of Directors […]
Inductively coupled plasma (ICP) is an atomic spectroscopy technique that uses plasma to energize a sample into emitting light that can be analyzed for atomic composition. An important alternative is the use of mass spectrometry to analyze the ionized sample from the plasma. ICP mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) is an extremely sensitive technique for atomic spectroscopy. […]
Company Announcements Under a 2006 asset purchase agreement, Advanced Chromatography Systems acquired the EZ Flash II GC accessory and the TEA analyzer organic nitrogen detection from assets of Thermo Fisher Scientific. PerkinElmer partnered with Ion Signature Technology (IST) to offer IST’s Ion Signature Quantitative Deconvolution Software to users of its Clarus 600 GC/MS. GOW-MAC Instruments […]
The editors of R&D Magazine and analysts from Batelle expect that total R&D spending in the US will rise 2.85% to $338.3 billion in 2007. Industry spending is forecast to account for $243.9 billion, a 3.30% increase from 2006, and academia is predicted to do $52.2 billion worth of work on R&D, a 1.83% increase. […]
Palm Springs, California’s desert air and sunny days were once again a perfect background for the Association for Laboratory Automation’s (ALA) annual LabAutomation conference. Held January 28–31 and accompanied by a three-day exhibition, the conference drew 4,600 registrants, a 9% increase from last year (see IBO 1/31/06). However, the number of exhibitors fell 15% to […]
The proposed acquisition of Molecular Devices by MDS Sciex (see page 2) will create a company with an estimated $470 million in fiscal 2006 revenues, putting it among the top 20 companies in the analytical and life science instrument industry (see IBO 4/15/06). In essence, the purchase transforms MDS Sciex into a full-blown instrument company, […]
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