This month, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the Human Microbiome Project. The human microbiome is comprised of the genomes of every micro-organism in humans. The Project will provide $115 million over five years to sequence and characterize at least 600 microbial genomes. Samples will be grown in laboratories and collected from the digestive […]
The major US stock markets managed to sustain positive gains in 2007 for the fifth consecutive year, despite extreme market volatility caused by the credit crisis and housing downturn. Strong corporate earnings and the Federal Reserve’s cuts in interest rates were enough to overcome selling pressure in the major US markets, which finished the year […]
In October, Applied Biosystems officially launched the SOLiD System DNA sequencing platform, capable of producing four billion bases of sequence data per run. PerkinElmer released the Geliance 1000 Imaging System for 2D gels. Shimadzu Japan introduced the MCE-202 MultiNA microchip electrophoresis system, featuring a reusable microchip. The company aims to sell a minimum of 400 […]
With the IBO Laboratory Instrumentation and Consumables Stock Indexes up over 20% for the second year in a row, it would seem that one would only have had to throw darts at the list of our industry equities to easily come up with winners. Alas that was not the case for our stock picks for […]
In 2006, total R&D spending was SGD 5,010 million ($3,154.3 million), or 2.39% of GDP. Forty-three percent of this spending went to R&D personnel, other operating costs accounted for 39% and capital expenditure made up 18%. Two-thirds of total R&D spending came from private industry and 12%, 11% and 10% came from public research institutes, […]
The announcement of the US federal budget for fiscal year 2008 (October 1, 2007–September 30, 2008) was grim news for science R&D supporters. According to a preliminary analysis by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the total US federal R&D budget increased only 1.2% for fiscal 2008 to $142,715 million. This amount […]
The Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) announced the first winners of its $25 million in research awards. A component of Qatar’s efforts to improve the profile of its research in the international community and to increase its research-to-R&D spending percentage, the National Research Priorities Program (NPRP) funds projects for three years. A total of $10 […]
Takata Bio granted Kemp Biotechnologies a worldwide license to make, use and sell LA-PCR–related products, bringing its number of LA-PCR licensees to 20. This year, Applied Biosystems began to manufacture its own enzymes for use in its TaqMan gene expression and genotyping master mixes. Applied Biosystems and Integromics SL will comarket an integrated real-time PCR […]
In September, DeltaNu appointed Gilden Photonics as its new distributor for the UK and Ireland. Polychromix signed a strategic investment and technology advancement agreement with In-Q-Tel. Scinco named Cosa Instruments the exclusive US distributor of its PDA UV/Vis spectrophotometers. Ocean Optics, a Halma company, promoted Rob Randelman, PhD, vice president of Sales and Marketing, to […]
Last month, the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) released the summary report of its “AUTM US Licensing Activity Survey: FY2006.” According to the survey, US universities, hospitals and research institutions received $45.4 billion during fiscal 2006, a 7.3% increase over the previous year. The average annual funding growth rate since 1997 is 8.6%. Sixty-eight […]
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