Company Announcements In a management buyout, Harvard Bioscience sold its Union Biometrica division, the remaining portion of its Capital Equipment business, in October 2008 for $1 in cash, the assumption of certain liabilities and an earn-out. Harvard Bioscience named Thomas McNaughton, most recently CFO of Tivoli Audio, CFO in November 2008. Jock Fyfe Lennox, senior […]
Two new websites were recently launched for the lab automation community. The Association for Laboratory Automation‘s LabAutopedia site at www.labautomation.org/labautopedia is a free source of reference information and articles in a “wiki” format, which allows contributions from users. ARTEL launched www.LHTalk.org, a noncommercial site, featuring forums and blogs focused on small-volume liquid handling.
The US Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) has delayed by one year the enforcement of certain requirements of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), which were to take effect on February 10. The CPSIA implements new certification and testing requirements for products, including toys and other products for children under 12. The limits on […]
As one of the first instrument shows to test the trade show environment in a new year and an increasingly uncertain economy, LabAutomation2009 showed that optimism about the instrument market remains intact. The annual conference and exhibit that showcases laboratory automation systems and associated products took place January 24–28 in Palm Springs, California. Attendance was […]
Company Announcements Cell Projects entered into a commercial license and development agreement in October 2008 with Queen’s University in Canada, covering several new electroporation technologies for adherent and in situ cell electroporation. Fluxion Biosciences named two new distributors: Labtech International for the UK, Ireland and France, and Westburg BV for Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, […]
Quest Diagnostics admitted in early January that thousands of its vitamin D tests conducted over the last two years were incorrect. In a letter to doctors, Quest said the test has now been fixed and offered free retests. Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to several diseases, and test volumes have doubled on an annual […]
Portability has long been touted as a powerful capability of molecular spectroscopy systems, and in the last couple of years portable molecular spectroscopy has gained momentum, especially with the introduction of portable Raman systems. In fact, a number of new products have recently been introduced to the market (see IBO 3/15/08). Among the advantages of […]
Carlsbad, CA 1/27/09—Life Technologies announced that a jury in the US District Court for the Northern District of California rendered a verdict in favor of the company in its patent infringement dispute with Illumina (see IBO 12/15/08). Life Technologies stated that following a seven-day trial, the jury ruled that Applied Biosystems’ SOLiD technology for DNA […]
The new year began with much of the same disheartening economic news as the previous year’s end, including escalating unemployment rates, subdued retail sales, corporate profit warnings and unrelenting liquidity concerns in the banking sector. For the first two trading weeks of the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and NASDAQ declined 8.3%, […]
Product Introductions Horiba launched the waterproof Multi Water Quality Checker U-50 Series for on-site measurement of up to 11 water-quality parameters in environmental waters. WTW GmbH released the handheld single-parameter ProfLine Series for pH, conductivity and dissolved oxygen (DO) measurements, consisting of three new product families: the 3110 series, 3210 series and 3310 series. YSI […]
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