Foster City, CA and Santa Clara, CA 9/18/07—Applera, Applied Biosystems’ parent company, and Agilent Technologies have entered a settlement agreement, resolving Applera’s patent infringement suits in multiple countries against Stratagene, which Agilent acquired in June (see IBO 4/15/07). Agilent agreed to license certain Applera technology for real-time thermal cycler instruments in research-related fields, excluding human […]
Fluxion Biosciences introduced the BioFlux platform, which automates and combines microfluidic chambers, for automated biofilm analysis. Lab901 launched the ScreenTape system for fully automated gel electrophoresis. It consists of the TapeStation system, ScreenTape consumables and software.
BTX Harvard Apparatus introduced the MicroPoration platform, consisting of a pulse generator, safety chamber and MicroPorator pipette, for nonviral transfection. Nova Biomedical launched the module BioProfile FLEX for cell culture analysis of 16 attributes. CellASIC launched the ONIX system for live cell imaging of yeast samples, featuring a microfluidic plate and flow control panel. Applied […]
Last year, China invested CNY 300.3 billion ($39.9 billion)—an increase of 22.6%, or CNY 55.3 billion, over 2005—in R&D, according to a statement released this month by the National Bureau of Statistics, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Finance. R&D spending in 2006 represented 1.42% of the country’s GDP, a new […]
While it does not make up nearly as large a market as laboratory mass spectrometry (MS) does, process MS is an online analytical technique that is critical to certain applications. Much of the same basic technology used in laboratory mass spectrometers is applied to process instrumentation. While there have been few recent introductions of new […]
Due to the inclusion of the International Sales Index in last month’s issue, IBO was unable to publish the results of the Life Science Sales Index for the second quarter. Here we present the results for that Index, as well as quarterly financial information for Index companies that not been covered in a previous issue. […]
AOAC International held its annual meeting and exposition from September 16 to 20 at the Hyatt Regency in Anaheim, California. The meeting’s return to California after a five-year absence appeared to have increased attendance. The AOAC reported 845 registered attendees, up from just over 800 last year, including about 230 international attendees. A number of […]
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