Oils and fuels are subject to numerous test methods to ensure quality and safety. One subset comprises the methods for the analysis of their behavior at low temperature. Typically these tests are applied to fuels, but they also have relevance to crude and refined oil, as well as other petroleum derivatives. The following test methods […]
AstraNet Systems is a small company that has been able to achieve big results by applying a core technology to different applications. The UK-based company designs, manufacturers and markets standard and customized spectrophotometers, fluorimeters, radiometers and reflectance probes, all based on fiber optic–coupled CCD-array (FOC-CCDA) technology. AstraNet systems are used in life science labs, in […]
Company Announcements In July, Carl Zeiss received a license from the University of California at San Francisco for “Multidirectional Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy,” an advanced illumination technique for light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM). The company is currently developing an LSFM system for multidimensional, ultrafast and long-term time lapse imaging of live specimens. Retroactive to June […]
Company Announcements Exiqon named four Centers of Excellence, which each provide services based on its products: TATAA Biocenter, Bioneer, AROS Applied Biotechnology and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute Division of Health Research. In July, New England Biolabs exclusively licensed specific SomaLogic SOMAmers as critical reagents for its current and future nucleic acid–amplification products. SOMAmers are […]
Company Announcements In August, Quanterix and STRATEC Biomedical agreed to codevelop and manufacture an automated instrument for Quanterix’s Single Molecular Array technology for use in the life science and in vitro diagnostic (IVD) markets. The life science system is expected to launch in 2013, and the IVD system is expected to launch in 2014. STRATEC […]
Company Announcements For the fiscal year ending March 31, sales for Takara Bio’s Genetic Engineering Research unit fell 4.8% to ¥15,882 million ($185 million) (see IBO 9/30/11). Sales of research reagents and contract research services were each unchanged. Scientific instrument sales declined significantly due to last year’s demand from public agencies. The unit aims for […]
Company Announcements Seahorse Bioscience appointed In Vitro Technologies as a distributor for Australia and New Zealand and Research Instruments as a distributor for Southeast Asia. IntelliCyt named five new European distributors: Bucher Biotec for Switzerland; Westburg for Benelux and Scandinavia; Grupo Taper for Spain and Portugal; Labtech France; and BioTech for the Czech Republic, Hungary, […]
Brazil’s government announced in September that the budget for its science ministry has been slashed 8% to BRL 5.7 billion ($3.0 billion) for 2011. The cut comes after last year’s record budget of $3.3 billion and reflects general spending cuts announced earlier this year. When Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff succeeded Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva […]
A project announced last month called FairGen could lead to the Faroe Islands being the first place in the world to sequence the genomes of its 50,000 residents. Already in effect in the self-governing Danish territory is a pilot project to sequence the genomes of 100 people. If the approximate $50 million cost of FairGen […]
Russia is aiming to entice foreign researchers with grants of RUB 150 million ($5 million) each, but some critics believe bureaucratic obstacles may hinder the effort. The Education and Science Ministry began offering the grants in April 2010 to try to lure scientists back to Russia after the 1990s, when insufficient salaries and research support […]
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