Hillsboro, OR 6/15/09—FEI has acquired JKTech’s Mineral Liberation Analysis (MLA) business for AUD 5 million ($4 million). JKTech is the technology transfer company for the University of Queensland’s Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Center and other Centers of the Sustainable Minerals Institute. MLA technology utilizes scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) to perform automated, targeted mineralogical analysis using […]
First-quarter 2009 Life Science Index sales declined 3.1% to $2,157 million, while operating profit slipped 0.8% to $356 million. However, operating margin gained 50 basis points to 16.6% of sales due to restructuring and cost saving initiatives. Of the 16 Index companies, Genetix and Tecan are the only two companies for which first-quarter estimates have […]
The European Commission has adopted specific rules for active and intelligent materials and articles intended to come into contact with food. The rules apply to substances that are part of a separate container or are directly incorporated into packaging material. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) will carry out the safety assessment of the substance […]
IBO has selected Thermo Scientific’s LTQ Velos ion trap LC/MS as the best new product at this year’s ASMS meeting. While the exterior design of the new instrument is essentially identical to other LTQ models, Thermo has made some considerable advances in the mass analyzer and other internal components. At the core of the LTQ […]
Earlier this month, Germany approved €18 billion ($25 billion) in new funding for research and higher education. The Excellence Initiative received €2.7 billion over nine years. First formed in 2006, the Excellence Initiative was created to develop internationally recognized German universities and currently includes eight schools. The second phase of the country’s Higher Education Pact, […]
Final attendance numbers released by Pittcon on April 7 show that the conferee attendance at the conference and exhibit increased 6.0% this year to 10,823, close to the number initially reported by IBO in our March 15 issue. However, compared to IBO’s initial report, total registration fell only 2.7% to 19,018. Exhibitor attendance fell 13.8% […]
On June 1, China’s new Food Safety Law took effect, replacing the Food Hygiene Law. The law implements stricter standards and supervision for food safety, as well as aims to improve government efficiency. The Ministry of Health, the lead regulator, has drafted three supplemental regulations for standards, new products and safety risks. To monitor standards […]
The six nations that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates) have formed a food safety and risk authority to evaluate and monitor health risks for food, animal and plant products using scientific data. The authority will work with risk management and food safety bodies in […]
As more protein-based therapeutics and biologics enter the drug development pipeline, the demand for technologies for immunogenicity testing is expected to become increasingly important. When taking a drug, a patient may initially or over time develop antibodies that block or interfere with the drug’s efficacy. The response can also result in life-threatening conditions. In 2008, […]
A report prepared by RTI International describes the success of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Combinatorial Methods Center (NCMC) in advancing technology development and assisting industry. Launched in 2002, the NCMC was charged with providing technology for combinatorial and high-throughput experimentation for organic polymers, disseminating research and establishing a scientific forum. Structured […]
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