According to a new Thomson Reuters Global Research Report, materials science research publications have grown rapidly over the last decade. Close to 60,000 materials science research articles and reviews are published annually. The figure is based on an analysis of the Web of Science database, which contains publications from 11,500 scientific journals. The figure includes […]
Label-free cell analysis is a fast-growing technology segment in the life science instrumentation industry. There are a handful of label-free cell analysis systems on the market based on measuring the impedance changes of cells in a solution. In order to perform this type of label-free cell analysis, the cells of interest are either adhered to […]
Last month, Waters released the ACQUITY UPLC I-Class System, the successor to the original ACQUITY System, which debuted seven years ago. “The system has been designed primarily to increase the capacity, which makes it ideal for LC/MS,” said Liz Hodgdon, senior product manager for Waters. She told IBO that the system is designed for customers […]
Company Announcements Kyoto University, iPS Academia Japan and iPierian entered into intellectual property agreements in February that create a unified patent estate covering induced pluripotent stem cell technology. In March, Life Technologies’ StemPro MSC (mesenchymal stem cells) SFM (serum-free medium) stem cell culture medium received FDA 501(k) clearance, which is required for researchers involved in […]
Company Announcements Life Technologies partnered with BioTeam in February to provide extended service and support for the Ion Torrent Server and Torrent Suite Software, including a subscription-based support package. In February, Ingenuity Systems announced a collaboration with Covance Genomics Laboratory for next-generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis. Pacific Biosciences named Biomatters an Informatics and Computational Infrastructure […]
Company Announcements Hamilton acquired Inline Messtechnik, its former German distributor for process products, in December 2010. In February, Modern Water acquired Cogent Environmental, a provider of portable and on-line water-monitoring products, from Sultan Scientific. Modern Water also established a new division, MW Monitoring. Environics Oy and IUT Institut fuer Umwelttechnologien formed Environics-IUT GmbH, a joint […]
Company Announcements In its fiscal second-quarter 2012 conference call, Becton Dickinson said that it paid $205 million to buy Accuri Cytometers (see IBO 2/15/11). Accuri is expected to contribute approximately one percentage point to BD Biosciences revenue in fiscal 2012 and approximately one to two percentage points annually over the next three years. In March, […]
Two of the largest Japanese suppliers of analytical instruments, Shimadzu and Hitachi High-Technologies, each recently reported their fiscal 2011 results for the year ending March 31. In addition, both companies reported a return to mostly normalized operations following March’s earthquake and tsunami. The companies reported growth for their analytical instrument businesses after declining sales in […]
Even though the Indian government has attempted throughout the past decade to boost the country’s presence in biopharma, it must adopt a strategy to increase that presence, according to the Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) recent report, “Life Sciences R&D: Changing the Innovation Equation in India.” The report collected data from interviews and a survey sent […]
Based on an analysis of data from the Chinese State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) and the Center for Drug Evaluation of the SFDA, it is estimated that approximately 25 “new drugs” entered clinical trials between 2003 and 2010. For purposes of the study, “new drugs” were defined as class 1.1 and 1.2 chemical drugs […]
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