Atomic absorbance (AA) spectroscopy is one of the most common techniques for elemental analysis in the lab. Standard flame or graphite furnace AA can analyze most elements with little difficulty and with excellent detection levels. However, certain elements present particular difficulties with AA due to their atomic and chemical natures. On the periodic table, these […]

Company Announcements In April, Oxford Nanopore raised $41 million in new funding via a private placement of ordinary shares. Dolomite signed a collaboration agreement to exclusively distribute Sphere Fluidics’ picodroplet products and to develop and sell new picodroplet products. Pacific Biosciences announced in May a collaboration with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in areas […]

Company Announcements Sage-N Research and Nonlinear Dynamics agreed to comarket their respective SORCERER proteomics platform and Progeneis LC/MS label-free quantification software. In May, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics entered into a comarketing agreement for Bruker’s MALDI Biotyper MALDI-TOF MS system for microbial identification. In June, Prosolia named GSG Meß- und Analysengeräte a distributor for its Omni Spray […]

Company Announcements In May, RainDance Technologies named Andy Watch vice president and chief marketing officer. Most recently, he was vice president of SOLiD Sequencing Product Management at Life Technologies. RainDance Technologies announced in June a multiyear collaboration with Sony DADC Austria for the codevelopment and manufacture of microdroplet-based “smart consumables.” The first product released is […]

Company Announcements The Automation Partnership changed its name to TAP Biosystems in March. In March, Tecan entered into an agreement to commercialize products based on HP’s inkjet-dispensing technology for pharmaceutical drug discovery. The digital drug titration device enables the fast delivery of picoliter to microliter sample volumes. Tecan will provide exclusive sales, marketing, service and […]

Company Announcements In May, Bruker opened a new Singapore Center of Excellence, which provides sales and after-sales services for Southeast Asia. The Center has a staff of 45 and expects to hire 10 to 20 more employees. Bruker opened in May a major applications, training and service center in Shanghai, China. The center brings together […]

Swedish health care companies are bypassing venture capital financing to raise funds due to a weak venture capital environment. According to SwedenBIO, a survey of 19 public and 100 private companies found that 50% of them plan to raise up to SEK 50 million ($8 million) of funding over three years. However, that may be […]

It could take more than a year for things to return to normal at Japanese universities after the March earthquake and tsunami. The damage of universities in eastern Japan may be as high as ¥90 billion ($1.1 billion). Engineering school Tohoku University endured ¥77 billion in damage. Twenty-eight buildings require reconstruction. The government has created […]

A July 6 vote on a new food-labeling system will provide more information for EU consumers. Currently, beef, fresh fruit and vegetable packages, fish, olive oil and honey sold in the EU require labels revealing their country of origin. The new legislation will extend such labels to poultry, pork and lamb, and the European Commission […]