San Jose, CA 10/19/11—Measurement instrument firm Endress+Hauser has acquired a stake in Finesse Solutions, a developer and producer of sensors, hardware and software for bioprocess engineering. Skymoon Ventures, the previous majority shareholder, will hold an equal stake to Endress+Hauser and the company’s staff of about 50 will maintain their ownership stake. “Biotechnological procedures will play […]
UV/Vis/NIR spectroscopy is a subset of the half-billion dollar UV/Vis spectroscopy market and is used widely across applications in the semiconductor and electronics industry. Despite the fact that only a handful of vendors dominate the market, the applications for which UV/Vis/NIR is used are experiencing strong growth that will help to drive growth in demand. […]
This month, Life Technologies introduced the QuantStudio 12K Flex Real-Time PCR System, a new PCR platform for real time and digital PCR. The system will ship in the first quarter of 2012 at a price, depending on configuration, of $90,000–$190,000. The system runs PCR experiments via five interchangeable blocks: 96-well plates, fast 96-well plates for […]
Company Announcements In June, Molecular Devices filed suit against BioTek Instruments in Massachusetts District Court, alleging that the company published and disseminated product comparison materials that were false and misleading. In its answer, BioTek denied the allegations and counterclaimed the same allegations against Molecular Devices. Douglas Scientific announced it June that HighRes Biosolutions will integrate […]
Company Announcements In September, Matthew Malenfant, senior vice president and president of VWR North America, Lab Distribution and Services, resigned. In September, Avantor Performance Materials opened an electronics laboratory in Chupei City, Taiwan. In October, RURO partnered with Angelantoni Industrie to integrate their respective FreezerPro software and Smart Freezer line of ultra-low temperature robotic freezers. […]
Company Announcements Axel Semrau agreed in July to distribute ThalesNano’s products in Germany. Product Introductions In June, Uniqsis introduced a Gas Addition Module for its FlowSyn and other continuous flow reactors. In June, CEM introduced the Discover SPS Plus microwave peptide synthesizer with a cycle time of less than 10 minutes. In July, Biotage released […]
Company Announcements In September, Agilent and the Agilent Technologies Foundation gave Professor Gerhard Wanger at Harvard Medical School an Agilent Thought Leader Award totaling $373,000 over three years in support of his work using high-magnetic field NMR to analyze large proteins. The award will help him develop fast and efficient assignment methods for large proteins […]
Company Announcements In July, DNASTAR began direct sales, marketing and technical support in Europe. 5AM Solutions opened an office in Boston, Massachusetts, this summer. In August, PREMIER Biosoft acquired Redasoft, which provides the Visual Cloning sequence analysis software. Aridhia Informatics and Glencoe Software formed a strategic partnership in September to create software for life science […]
The 84th annual Water Environment Federation’s Annual Technical Exhibition and Conferences, more commonly known as WEFTEC, was held in Los Angeles, California, on October 15–19. Attendance declined 4.7% to 16,691 from last year’s show, which was held in New Orleans, Louisiana. The number of exhibiting companies also declined, falling 6.2% to 923. The exhibition was […]
China’s R&D expenditure continued to rise in 2010, reaching CNY 706.26 billion ($111.1 billion), a 21.7% increase from 2009. Basic research spending totaled CNY 32.45 billion, an increase of 20.1%. Applied research, which the Chinese government defines as “creative research aiming at obtaining new knowledge on a specific objective or target,” grew 22.3% to CNY […]
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