Company Announcements Oxford Gene Technology (OGT) and Optra Systems are developing software to visualize and analyze data from high-resolution scanners. In March, OGT acquired Sense Proteomic, which uses its protein array platform to identify autoantibody signatures for biomarker discovery. Gentel will use Eprogen’s ProteoSep protein fractionation technique to create whole-proteome microarrays from individual cell lines […]
For the third consecutive month, the markets closed in positive territory, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and NASDAQ climbed 4.1%, 5.3% and 3.3%, respectively. Despite the major US stock indexes trading within a narrow range for most of May, investors turned bullish during the final two trading days of the month due […]
France’s new nanotechnology program, Nano-INNOV, will receive €70 million ($98 million) in funding, including €46 million to support the construction of a research center in Saclay science park. Construction, which will begin by year end, is expected to be expedited because the new lab will be built using the design of existing labs. Nano-INNOV will […]
Although German GDP fell 6.7% in the first quarter on an annual basis, one would not have suspected it from the convention floor at ACHEMA 2009, which took place from May 11 to 15 in Frankfurt am Main. The various halls that compose the Messe Frankfurt exhibition grounds thronged with visitors and exhibitors. Total attendance […]
Paris and Houston, TX 5/28/09—Air Liquide’s Healthcare business has acquired Pacific Science, a provider of cryobiology equipment and services to biobanks, effective May 1. Based in Torrance, California, with 15 employees, Pacific Science distributes incubators, freezers and biological safety cabinets. Air Liquide Healthcare stated that the acquisition would provide a channel for the US sales […]
US President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2010 budget proposal includes a 0.4% increase in R&D spending over the fiscal 2009 enacted level to $147.6 billion. Funding for basic research would increase 3.4% to $30.9 billion, and spending for development would rise 0.2% to $84.1 billion. Funding for applied research would decline 2.2% to $28.1 billion. R&D […]
In what a number of publicly traded analytical instrument companies called their toughest quarter ever, the first quarter of calendar-year 2009 was a challenging environment for sales of analytical and laboratory instruments and even, in some cases, laboratory consumables. Revenues in reported currencies for 10 of the 11 companies profiled on pages 9–11 declined during […]
As part of its latest budget, the Australian government has announced a four-year, AUD 5.7 billion ($4.41 billion) investment in R&D. The Education Investment Fund (EIF) will receive AUD 3 billion for university research and infrastructure. In the EIF’s first two rounds, 31 projects costing AUD 934 have been accepted. Round two of funding includes […]
There were 356 responses to the 2009 Food Processing R&D survey. The most important target for R&D this year for 48% of those surveyed was new product development, up from less than a third of respondents last year. For 30%, existing product improvement was the most important target. However, according to 63% of respondents, product […]
Portola Valley, CA 5/6/09; Oakland, CA 5/6/09—Spectros, a provider of molecular sensing and imaging devices, has filed a patent infringement suit against Thermo Fisher Scientific in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Spectros alleges fluorospectrometers sold by Thermo, including the Nanodrop 3300, infringe US Patent No. 6,711,426 (Spectroscopy Illuminator with Improved […]
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