Earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services provided Congress with fiscal 2012 budget details for the proposed National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). The NCATS would replace the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) as one of the 27 centers and institutes that comprise the NIH. NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins […]
As the application of LC/MS entered ever more challenging areas, the demand for an added dimension of differentiation was needed, which helped to give rise to ion mobility–enabled MS. Several major vendors now offer the technology. Ion mobility is a technique that utilizes an applied electric field to separate molecular ions based on their mobility […]
At ASMS 2011, several companies discussed future product introductions. AB SCIEX announced at its press conference that it expects to obtain IVD-CE marking for its API 3200 triple quadrupole system and 3200 QTRAP triple quadrupole/linear ion trap LC/MS systems by the end of the year, enabling the use of the systems in Europe for clinical […]
Company Announcements Roche 454 Life Sciences and RainDance Technologies announced in March that they will develop and commercialize a targeted next-generation sequencing solution for ADME and will launch a core ADME gene-screening research panel that enables the detection of known and unknown functional mutations associated with drug metabolism and response. Fluidigm’s 2010 revenues increased 32.3% […]
Company Announcements In March, Halma acquired Wagtech’s Water Technology Division for £3.0 million ($4.9 million). The Division, which supplies water test kits and arsenic test kits, was merged with Palintest. Esco named XQ Lin CEO in March. He previously served as president of the North American subsidiary. Biohit announced in March a net sales target […]
Company Announcements First-quarter Roche Applied Science revenue declined 12%, down 3% in local currencies, to CHF 198 million ($211 million) due to a large one-time order a year ago. Custom Biotech sales grew 13%, Genomic Analysis sales increased 1%, Other revenue fell 10% and qPCR & Nucleic Acid Purification sales fell 16%. Europe/Middle East/Africa and […]
Company Announcements Nobel Laureate Paul Berg, PhD, retired from Affymetrix’s Board in May. In March, Gentel Biosciences acquired the SilverQuant trademark from Eppendorf. Gentel acquired the rights to the array-based chromogenic detection technology in 2008 for use in protein-detection assay applications. In June, Microarrays Inc. named three new exclusive distributors: Cambio for the UK and […]
Company Announcements FEI and CEA-Leti announced in March a three-year agreement to characterize advanced semiconductor materials for the 22 nm technology node. Research will focus on the use of holography to improve the sensitivity of dopant profiling and the use of nanobeam diffraction techniques to measure changes in strain and other crystallographic parameters. In March, […]
The continuing resolution (CR) to fund the US federal government through the end of fiscal year (FY) 2011 is $38.5 billion below the FY10 level. President Obama signed HR 1473 into law April 15 (see IBO 4/15/11). It is regarded as a CR instead of an appropriations bill, and therefore was not supplemented with clarifying […]
IBO has selected Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Orbitrap Elite as the product of the show for this year’s ASMS meeting. While Agilent’s 7200 Q-TOF GC/MS further expands the GC/MS market and Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Q-Exactive will undoubtedly have a strong impact on the mid-range LC/MS market, the Orbitrap Elite offers a dramatic performance improvement to what […]
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