Company Announcements Microsaic Systems announced the CE marking of its 3500 MiD MS system. Microsaic Systems CEO Alan Finlay stepped down in December 2011 and was temporarily replaced by Chairman Eric Yeatman until a replacement is found. Thermo Fisher Scientific agreed in January to comarket PREMIER Biosoft’s SimGlycan software for the characterization of complex glycans […]
Company Announcements Life Technologies named Rhenium its principal distributor in Israel. MP Biomedicals appointed Todd R. Nelson, PhD, as president and CEO in December 2011. He was formerly CEO of eBioscience. Avacta acquired Aptuscan, a developer of affinity protein scaffolds, in January for £1.5 million ($2.3 million). Under a license and supply agreement, Hologic will […]
Company Announcements Anton Paar established new subsidiaries in Italy and Turkey in December 2011. Hach named VWR a local distributor for its laboratory products in Australia and New Zealand. Technology trading group Addtech Life Science acquired BioNordika in January. BioNordika markets reagents and instruments for biomedical research and has annual sales of around SEK 80 […]
Company Announcements MANTECH named DKSH its exclusive distributor and provider of market expansion services for South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Senova Systems, a developer of pH sensing technology, announced in January that it raised $6.7 million in Series B financing, which was led by Phoenix Venture Partners. Hanna Instruments named two new exclusive […]
Company Announcements Bruker announced in November 2011 a collaboration with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to develop and distribute new structural biology methods and tools to integrate small-angle X-ray scattering with NMR. In March, Oxford Instruments entered into an agreement for Active Spectrum to develop and manufacture micro-electron magnetic resonance (EMR) products to be sold […]
Brazilian President Dilma Roussef has slashed Brazil’s science budget for the second year in a row. In February, the government announced a BRL 6.7 billion ($3.7 billion) science budget for 2012, which is 22% less than 2011’s budget. The government issued the cuts as part of its plan to decrease national spending by BRL 55 […]
India has announced its fiscal 2012 budget, which takes effect April 1. The budget for the Ministry of Science and Technology would increase 9.1% to INR 7,857.61 crore ($1.6 billion). Within the Ministry, the largest increase would be for the Department of Science and Technology’s budget, which is set to jump 10.3% to INR 2,873.2 […]
On March 29, DBV Technologies became the fourth health-related company to complete an IPO in France this year. France has reached a 20-year high for the number of health care companies completing IPOs in one quarter. DBV joins Adocia, EOS Imaging and Intrasense as health-related firms that have completed French IPOs this year. Despite the […]
On March 27, the EPA proposed a first-time standard for carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. New power plants would have to emit less than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide annually per megawatt hour. The standard would not affect plants already in operation, plants that do not use fossil fuels or plants that will begin […]
A new Supreme Court ruling has re-examined the criteria for patenting diagnostic tests, which may have a significant impact on personalized medicine. The Court declared two tests patented by Nestlé’s Prometheus Laboratories invalid because the methods contained within them are already recognized and practiced by scientists. The Court dismissed Prometheus’s claim that its steps were […]
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