In order for a protein to be introduced into an MS for identification, it must undergo a series of preparatory steps to ensure the cleanliness of the sample. Protein digestion is among those steps. Using a protease (most commonly trypsin), the protein is enzymatically digested into smaller pieces or peptides. Laboratory automation allows scientists to […]
Company Announcements As part of its restructuring of RTS Life Science, Entologi has formed the Vision Technology Business Unit, which will focus on products for manufacturing, lab and warehouse applications. Tecan and Sword Diagnostics announced in January the availability of Sword’s detection reagents in the US for use with Tecan’s Infinite M1000 and 200 PRO […]
Company Announcements In March, SCP Science announced that it is a North American distributor of Spinlocks’s NMR spectrometer and accessories. Sales/Orders of Note Bruker announced in December 2010 that the University of British Columbia placed an order for its AVANCE III 850 spectrometer. The system will be used for research on microbial diseases. In January, […]
Company Announcements Under a cooperation agreement, Mikroglas chemtech placed its mikroSyn microreactor platform on Flowid’s Application Laboratory platform. Product Introductions Chemtrix introduced the Labtrix Start system, a manual plug-and-play platform for lab-based optimization of reactions within glass microreactors for performing syntheses at -15–195 °C and under pressures up to 25 b. Asynt launched the DrySyn […]
Company Announcements Sequenom named William Welch senior vice president of Diagnostics in January. Most recently, he was senior vice president and COO at Monogram Biosciences. Tecan became the exclusive North American distributor of Attana’s biosensor instruments and assays. In January, Caliper Life Technologies partnered with Seegene to enable Seegene’s multiplex diagnostic assays to run on […]
Company Announcements Cellectis granted Harvard Apparatus, a Harvard Bioscience company, an exclusive license to manufacture and sell for research use the full line of electroporation-based instruments that it acquired from CytoPulse (see IBO 11/30/10). Cellectis will receive a $1.3 million payment. In February, InDevR announced the establishment of six distribution agreements for the ViroCyte 2100 […]
The 14 countries in the Arabian, Persian and Turkish Middle East (AP&TME) increased their share of research publications in the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge from below 2% to more than 4% in the past ten years. Of 21 main fields classified by Essential Science Indicators, engineering and agricultural science were the fields for which […]
In February, Brazil’s new president Dilma Rousseff announced a surprise 23% cut to the version of the Ministry of Science and Technology’s 2011 budget that had been approved by Congress, reducing it from BRL $8.1 billion ($4.9 billion) to BRL $6.3 billion. The amount is an 18% decrease from last year’s budget. After the cuts […]
On March 23, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced the 2011 UK budget, which includes a number of measures to improve UK R&D. The budget adds £100 million ($162 million) for research infrastructure at existing campuses and clusters. The National Institute for Health Research will award a minimum of £775 million over five years […]
Worldwide, finance and investment in the clean energy sector increased 30% in 2010 to reach $243 billion. More than 90% of all clean energy investments were in companies and projects in the Group of Twenty (G-20) leading economies. Europe was the top recipient of clean energy finance at $94.4 billion. Clean energy investments totaled $65.8 […]
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