Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) is a relatively new subsegment of the fluorescence spectroscopy market designed for advanced research. FCS can provide very specific physiochemical information that is most useful in biology and related sectors. Technical advancements in recent decades have allowed the technique to be developed as a commercial instrument technique that is still in […]

Soon after releasing its “Autumn Statement” in November, the UK unveiled its “Strategy for the UK Life Sciences.” The reports detail the UK’s plans for furthering economic growth and encouraging foreign investment. The “Strategy for the UK Life Sciences” outlines plans to benefit the industry. The government has designated £310 million ($500 million = £0.62 […]

ASD is a company confident in its future. The combination of the firm’s portable instruments, application experience and two decades in natural resource management, as well as high natural resource commodity prices, has boosted its management team’s confidence that its compound annual growth rate will be above 25% over the next five years—perhaps higher, if […]

Company Announcements In September, the FDA, University of Maryland, their Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN) and Waters opened the International Food Safety Training Laboratory to provide hands-on lab training on detection methods and classroom methods on regulatory standards. Operated by the JIFSAN, the lab will be able to teach 200 professionals […]

Company Announcements In September, Verinata Health announced a three-year supply agreement to purchase Illumina’s HiSeq 2000 instruments and consumables for use in the commercialization of noninvasive prenatal testing for the detection of multiple aneuploidies. The companies will also collaborate on gaining regulatory approval for the testing service. In October, Illumina entered into a collaborative research […]

Company Announcements Certara announced in October that it will be the exclusive provider of Chemotargets’ software for predicting the off-target pharmacology of small molecules through the creation of customized ligand-based target models. In October, Accelrys agreed to market and sell SCYNEXIS’s Hit Explorer Operating System, a software-as-a-service workspace that supports real-time data sharing across multiple […]

Company Announcements Ocean Optics named Kevin Chittim president in September, replacing Robert Randelman, who was promoted to divisional chief executive for parent company Halma. Mr. Chittim previously served as CEO of Labsphere, another Halma company. In October, Avacta extended its distribution agreement with Pall to include Southeast Asia. Product Introductions Picarro introduced the field-portable L2130-i […]

Company Announcements CPI International named General Manager Jarrett Wendt president and CEO in October. In October, BioSurplus opened a sales office in Incheon, South Korea, in partnership with jDepot. In October, Agilent and the Agilent Technologies Foundation selected Steven Carr, PhD, who directs the Proteomics Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, for […]

Last month, Egypt announced plans to develop a network of research centers and universities that will complement its upcoming $2 billion science city, which was announced this past May. The Zewail City of Science and Technology network will be connected with research centers that are part of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research […]

As silicon-based photolithography reaches its feasible limits resulting in leaking electricity and rising manufacturing costs, manufacturers are searching for a new approach to make semiconductors. To make smaller circuits more quickly and less expensively, Intel and IBM are seeking to reduce the size of the smallest component from 32 nm to 7 nm using carbon […]