South San Francisco, CA 4/16/08—Fluidigm, which develops, manufactures and sells Integrated Fluidic Circuit systems (IFCs) for life science research, has filed for an IPO on the NASDAQ stock exchange. The number of shares to be offered and the price have not yet been determined. According to the filing, in 2007, Fluidigm’s revenues increased 19.9% to […]
Brazil: From 2000 to 2006, the Brazilian government’s investment in nanotechnology research amounted to BRL 170.2 million ($81.5 million). Current funding includes BRL 58.6 million for the 2005–2009 National Nanotechnology Program and BRL 215 million for Millennium institutes and microelectronics research. Nanotech research in Brazil is almost entirely publicly funded and is organized by networks […]
Company Announcements Luminex and Tyson Foods are collaborating to develop food-safety and animal-health tests. In February, Invitrogen expanded its license and supply agreement with Luminex, extending the lifetime of the license and providing it with access to next-generation multiplex detection platforms. Invitrogen offers more than 200 assays based on Luminex’s xMAP Technology. In February, Sigma-Aldrich […]
This month, the markets were extremely resilient, as they shrugged off profuse negative economic data to finish the month in positive territory. For the first time since October 2007, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and NASDAQ all finished higher, improving 4.5%, 4.8% and 5.9%, respectively. Investors seemed primarily focused on several positive earnings […]
Company Announcements In January, WaferGen Biosystems formally opened its Malaysian subsidiary in Kedah, which will initially focus on R&D. WaferGen also entered into a contract manufacturing agreement with Malaysia-based Pentamaster. Cepheid appointed Andrew D. Miller as senior vice president, CFO in April. He was previously vice president and chief accounting officer for Autodesk. EnviroLogix and […]
Odense, Denmark 4/28/08; Palo Alto, CA 4/28/08—Proxeon A/S has entered into an OEM agreement to provide its nanoscale Easy-nLC system to Varian for interface with Varian’s 920-MS Fourier Transform triple quadrupole MS. The Easy-nLC will be sold as the Varian 216-LC. “The performance of LC/MS configurations has become increasingly significant in the proteomics market,” stated […]
India: India’s clinical trials and research market is expected to increase to $1.5–$2 billion by 2010. In 2006, the market grew over 65%, and is currently worth approximately $300 million. Of the 139 clinical trials outsourced to the country, GlaxoSmithKline and Johnson&Johnson outsourced 22 trials each, Eli Lilly and Bristol-Myers Squibb outsourced 17 each, and […]
Company Announcements The Fraunhofer IBMT will develop new, customized applications for Magritek’s Kea NMR Mole System and will provide technical support for them in Europe. The companies will also work together on future developments of the system. Product Introductions Chenomx released Chenomx NMR Suite 5.0, a set of integrated software applications for performing NMR-based metabolomics. […]
Metals: In 2007, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the metals industry increased 67% to $144.7 billion. Aluminum deals represented 56 of the year’s 411 disclosed transactions and amounted to $77.3 billion, almost four times the $21.3 billion spent on aluminum deals between 2003 and 2006. This increase was primarily due to Rio Tinto’s $38.1 […]
Billerica, MA 4/21/08—Bruker has announced it will incur approximately $12 million in pretax foreign exchanges losses in the first quarter, which are forecasted to reduce EPS by approximately $0.06 cents after tax. The company attributed the losses to the weakening of the US dollar and an unexpected strengthening of the Swiss Franc in the five […]
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