Company Announcements In June, Bruker amended its exclusive distribution agreement with Francisco Soria Melguizo for the MALDI Biotyper to include Portugal as well as Spain. Francisco Soria Melguizo has placed 20 systems since 2009. Bruker and the University of Zurich’s Institute of Medical Microbiology (IMM) are collaborating on the study of coryneform bacteria, actinomycetes, fastidious […]
Company Announcements CAMO Software named Pål Bråthen CEO in March. In June, IONICON Analytik appointed Lukas Märk, who was previously responsible for marketing and sales, as CEO. He replaces his father, Tilmann Märk. IONICON Analytik named MARS Bioanalytical a distribution partner for India. In June, American Micro Detection Systems signed a multi-country distributor agreement with […]
The US has improved its response to public health emergencies, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report released this month. State public health labs have strengthened their efforts in identifying and reporting disease-causing bacteria. In 2010, a total of 142 Laboratory Response Network (LRN) labs could test for biological agents, up […]
The new US America Invents Act makes several changes to the US patent system that are designed to limit legal battles. The Act will forgo the “first to invent” approach in favor of “first to file,” which is similar to other countries’ systems. Some critics believe that this approach could lead to firms scrambling to […]
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released this month urges the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Agriculture (USDA) to work together to improve data collection and risk assessment for antibiotic-resistant bacteria in food animals. The GAO stated that since its initial 2004 recommendations, the HHS and USDA have collected data separately and […]
Pakistan’s government has pledged to boost R&D spending from 0.59% to 2% of the country’s GDP by 2020 under its proposed Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, a ten-year plan. The Policy lists areas that require attention, including demand-driven research and relationships among science and technology institutions, and aims to establish an intellectual property rights system […]
China published the second-largest amount of scientific papers from 2006 to 2010, according to Elsevier’s Scopus citation database, but its citation per article, which assesses the value and impact of papers, of 1.47 was the lowest of the major 20 publishing countries. Most citations of papers with Chinese lead authors were made by other Chinese […]
The European Commission’s health-research division is contributing €30 million ($41 million) to the new BLUEPRINT epigenome project. More than 50 European researchers from 41 organizations, which will provide an additional €10 million to the project, will generate at least 100 reference epigenomes, making headway in the International Human Epigenome Consortium’s objective of accumulating 1,000 reference […]
Calendar-year third quarter ended with increased recessionary fears due to the lingering European sovereign debt crisis, a deteriorating US economic outlook by the US Federal Reserve and weak economic data from China. Investors’ anxieties were further heightened on September 20, when the International Monetary Fund lowered its growth forecasts for both the US and Europe. […]
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