Major publicly held analytical instrument and laboratory product companies experienced healthy sales growth in the first quarter of the calendar year—quite a change from a year ago and further evidence that market demand is steadily recovering. Sales to academic, government and applied markets were good, and industrial markets showed signs of life. However, pharmaceutical and […]
The metals industry makes use of a number of specialized analytical tools to determine the composition of samples. While arc/spark optical emission spectroscopy is probably the technique that is most associated with metals analysis, dedicated inorganic combustion analyzers are also heavily in demand. These instruments typically measure a small number of individual elements. Some metal […]
Company Announcements As part of a global strategic collaboration, Micromeritics is codistributing Surface Measurement Systems products in China. Biolin Scientific appointed Jan Wahlström, deputy CEO and COO, as CEO in March. HEL granted Particulate Systems, a Micromeritics Instrument brand, exclusive global distribution rights to its Subsieve AutoSizer in February. Particulate Systems was granted exclusive distribution […]
Company Announcements Helicos BioSciences President Steven J. Lombardi resigned in February, and CEO Ronald A. Lowy was named president. DNA sequencer developer Pacific Biosciences launched a partner program in February. Among the 11 initial partners are Agilent, Caliper Life Sciences, Fluidigm, NuGEN Technologies and RainDance Technologies. Gyros AB signed an exclusive distribution agreement with SCRUM […]
BioSystem Development’s Assay MAP MAb Titer is the company’s first application-specific product. It is primarily used for optimizing monoclonal antibody cell culture during process development. The MAb Titer is a miniature spin column in a cartridge format, containing 192 packed beds. First, the cartridge is wetted with 5 µL of protein A resin, an antibody […]
Company Announcements Cresset created the Versaphor desktop-applications division to supply tools based on its Fields (the 3D surface and electrostatic properties of molecules) technology to medicinal chemists, patent teams and others. CAMO Software opened an office in Yokohama, Japan, in March. Ingenuity Systems named Molecule Scientific its exclusive distributor for Taiwan, and Biodiagnostics a distributor […]
Volatility reached new levels this month as the European debt crisis unnerved investors. On May 6, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted nearly 1,000 points intraday, and closed down 3.2%. International markets faced similar declines as France’s CAC-40 index tumbled 4.6%, Germany’s DAX fell 3.3%, Britain’s FTSE 100 dropped 2.6% and Japan’s Nikkei fell 3.1%. […]
IBO has selected Shimadzu’s AXIMA MegaTOF MALDI-TOF MS as the product of the show at this year’s ASMS meeting. While new introductions and improvements of triple quadrupole and Q-TOF LC-MS were impressive, the MegaTOF opens up new areas of MS analysis. The MegaTOF is a linear TOF built around the use of CovalX’s high mass […]
Cambridge, MA 5/17/10; Washington, DC 5/17/10—DNA sequencer provider Helicos BioSciences has announced a restructuring plan and strategic shift. The company will now focus solely on molecular diagnostics and has exited the genetic research market. The operational restructuring eliminated 40 positions, or half of the company’s workforce, during the second quarter. “In particular, our technology’s ability […]
Washington, DC 5/5/10; Washington, DC 5/21/10; Washington, DC 5/27/10—Symyx Technologies, which last month entered into a merger agreement with Accelrys (see IBO 4/15/10), announced in SEC filings that a competitor has updated its merger proposals initially made during Symyx’s negotiations with Accelrys. The latest revised offer, made on May 24, is for $6.75 per share […]
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