According to Hong Yaxiong, deputy director of the department of policy for China’s State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), a new environmental ministry is likely to be created during the Eleventh National People’s Congress in March. The new ministry would assume SEPA’s duties and could also include the environmental duties of the Ministry of Land and […]
In the January 15 issue, IBO listed CEO changes as one of the instrument industry’s main developments of 2007. On February 1, Robert F. Friel took over as CEO of PerkinElmer, the world’s fifth largest provider of analytical and life science instrumentation (see IBO 7/31/07). He remains president. Mr. Friel told IBO that as CEO […]
The FDA approved 17 new molecular entities (NMEs) and two biological license applications in 2007, the lowest number of new approvals since 2002. Nine of the 19 approvals were the subject of priority review status, which is given to a drug for which few available treatments exist. Four of the new approvals were for oncology […]
President Bush’s proposed budget, released February 4, for fiscal year 2009 calls for a 3.3% increase in the federal R&D investment to $145.4 billion. Federal support of basic and applied R&D would drop 0.5% to $57.1 billion, with a 3.1% increase in basic research spending to $29.3 billion and a 4.0% decrease in applied research […]
Velocity11 launched the Automated Microplate Spin-down Station for 320 microplates, which integrates the BenchCel Microplate Handling System and the Vspin Access 2 Microplate Centrifuge. CyBio AG introduced the CyBi-DiluSpro 8-channel pipettor for volumes of 0.5 µL–250 µL, the CyBi-Well vario multichannel pipettor for volumes of 25 nL–250 µL and the CyBi-RoboSpense all-purpose pipetting robot. Eppendorf […]
Caluire, France and Pensauken, NJ 2/1/08—Setaram, a provider of thermal analysis and calorimetry systems, has acquired Hy-Energy, a manufacturer of gas sorption instruments for clean energy applications. “The integration of Hy-Energy with Setaram further strengthens Setaram Instruments’ North American operations and provides us with a physical presence on the West Coast, closer to many of […]
On January 15, the Korean Science and Technology Ministry released a plan to place Korea among the top three countries for nanotechnology by 2020. According to the plan, by 2020, Korean companies would control 20% of the global nanotechnology market, generating sales of $260 billion per year by 2015 and $500 billion in 2020. Nano-element […]
Fluxion Biosciences appointed AutoMate Scientific as a distributor of its BioFlux System. Amaxa and Promega will develop applications based on their respective Nucleofector technology and luciferase reporter assay technologies to monitor cell signaling events in cells that are difficult to transfect. Roche Applied Sciences will exclusively market systems for real-time cell analysis based on ACEA […]
Invitrogen and HUPO (the Human Proteome Organization) launched the HUPO Gold Mass Spectrometry Protein Standard sampling program for development of what Invitrogen calls “the first commercially available all-recombinant human protein standard for mass spectrometry.” Applied Biosystems introduced the Cliquid Drug Screen and Quant Software for Routine Forensic Toxicology, a new software application for its LC/MS/MS […]
Affymetrix received a four-year, $10.2 million grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute for the ENCODE (ENCylopedia Of DNA Elements) project. Laboratory Corporation of America will use Affymetrix’s whole genome microarrays for a new molecular cytogenetic service for the US.
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