Lansing, MI 5/4/09—Neogen, a supplier of food and animal safety testing products, has acquired International Diagnostic Systems (IDS). IDS offers immunoassay test kits for the detection of drug residues in food and animal feed and drugs in forensic and animal samples. IDS generated revenues of $2 million in its most recent fiscal year. Terms were […]

Company Announcements In March, BioOptics closed a $3 million Series A financing round, led by Boulder Ventures. In conjunction, COO Richard Whitcomb was promoted to president and CEO. In March, NextGen Sciences sold its electrophoresis business, consisting of the a2Deoptimizer automated gel casting unit and the optigels large-format precast gels, to Sigma-Aldrich for $560,000 in […]

In fiscal 2008, average short-term and long-term compensation for 56 executives at 44 analytical instrument and laboratory product companies in IBO’s three Stock Indexes (see IBO 4/30/09) increased, according to the latest results of IBO’s annual Executive Compensation Survey. Average total short-term compensation grew 5.1% to $1,199,310, while average total long-term compensation rose 13.2% to […]

Field flow fractionation (FFF) has existed for more than 40 years and is primarily used for the separation and characterization of large particles; however, it has not reached the popularity of other separation techniques for this application. FFF works much like LC, but uses a thin flow channel instead of a column. In place of […]