Waltham, MA 7/25/08—Thermo Fisher Scientific has acquired FIBERLite Centrifuge, a supplier of carbon fiber centrifuge rotors. FIBERLite had 2007 revenues of approximately $7 million. “We have been offering FIBERLite rotors as an alternative to aluminum and titanium rotors in our Thermo Scientific laboratory centrifuges for several years, and we have seen customer demand for the […]
The $17 billion contract research organization (CRO) market is growing 15% annually. CROs currently perform approximately 25% of preclinical drug testing for pharmaceutical manufacturers, and analyst Isaac Ro of Leerink Swann predicts that, due to imminent strains on pharmaceutical firms including lower profits and more regulations, within three years the number will double to 50%. […]
In a development that observers deemed a significant action for US product safety regulations, the US Congress passed the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 this month. The bill has been sent to President Bush, who is expected to sign it into law, lowers allowable limits for lead and for six types of phthalates […]
New money is flowing to US government agencies, following President Bush’s signing of a supplemental funding bill on June 30. The bill allocated $400 million in new funding to four federal agencies: the National Institutes of Health (NIH) ($150 million), the National Science Foundation (NSF) ($62.5 million), the National Air and Space Administration ($62.5 million) […]
Santa Clara, CA 7/24/08—Affymetrix has purchased a developer of digitally encoded microparticle technology for $25 million in cash. GenomeWeb.com reports that the company is True Materials and that Randy True, the company’s vice president of R&D, has joined Affymetrix. Affymetrix stated that the technology will allow it to enter the low to mid-multiplexing markets and […]
Particle bombardment technology, also known as biological biolistics or bioballistics, is a nonviral, physical gene delivery method in which target cells are transfected using DNA-coated particles. Cornell University horticultural scientist John Sanford and cohorts developed the technique in the early 1980s. The technology is a very effective gene delivery method for plant cells, as it […]
Company Announcements In May, Invitrogen licensed human embryonic stem cell (hESC) patents from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation for the development of research tools, giving it the right to work with karyotypically normal hESCs. Agilent acquired a license in May from the Broad Institute to commercialize a method for genome partitioning using Agilent’s Oligo Library […]
Austin, TX 7/7/08—Xenemetrix announced that on June 15 it acquired Jordan Valley’s Analytical Instrument Division, which suppliers energy dispersive–X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy instruments (ED-XRF). Xenemetrix was formed by a private management group, led by CEO Doron Reinis, a founding partner of Business Processes, a consulting, production engineering and industrial engineering services firm. “As Jordan Valley Semiconductors […]
Company Announcements Dynisco restructured in March, creating divisions to serve specific market segments, including Plastics, Rubber and Industrial, Oil and Gas, Life Sciences, and Test and Control. Under an OEM agreement, Digital Light will supply REOLOGICA with photocuring accessories. In April, Anton Paar GmbH announced the appointment of Dr. Othmar Ederer, general director of the […]
Since the end of last year, it has been clear that capital expenditures by the semiconductor industry have been falling significantly. The first half of 2008 has done nothing to mitigate this pessimism and, if anything, the situation has grown more dire than originally expected. This was the general business climate that set the stage […]
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