Company Announcements Helicos BioSciences launched a diagnostics business in June, including plans for a CLIA-approved genetic testing lab. Dr. Robert Wassman, founder of Good Start Genetics, was named chief medical officer. Protein-detection and -quantitation system developer BioScale secured $25 million in a June financing round. Advanced Analytical opened a sales office and lab in Heidelberg, […]
Company Announcements Thermo Fisher Scientific acquired Polychromix, the provider of the PHAZIR handheld NIR instrument, in May. The company had 20 employees. In June, Ocean Optics acquired Sandhouse Design, a designer and manufacturer of modular mid-IR spectrometers, LEDs, light sources and other photonics products. Ocean Optics stated that with the purchase it now offers close […]
South Africa’s R&D expenditure continues to grow steadily. Total 2009 R&D expenditure was R21,041 billion ($3.0 billion), up 12.9%, or 2.2% in real terms (disregarding the effects of price increases). Gross expenditure of R&D was 0.92%, a decline in the percentage of GDP for the second year in a row. The proportion of R&D performers […]
Canada’s national spending on higher education institutions’ R&D increased 7.3% to $10.9 billion in 2009. In real or inflation-adjusted terms, the amount was $9.0 billion, a 3.2% increase. Spending for health sciences R&D was $4.4 billion, an increase of 9.1%, or 5.0% in adjusted terms. Spending for other natural sciences and engineering R&D increased 5.5%, […]
Sri Lanka’s first science and technology policy, launched at the National Science and Technology Commission (NASTEC) conference in July, has finally been given the go-ahead. NASTEC and multiple Sri Lankan science and technology institutes are currently formulating an implementation strategy. The policy aims to increase GDP investment in science from 0.13% to 1.5% by 2016 […]
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