Mobile labs allow users to test in remote locations more quickly and at a lower cost than at many fixed labs. A mobile lab is defined as a lab that operates within a vehicle. Mobile labs are utilized in sectors including environmental testing, mining, oil and gas, construction and food. IBO spoke with three organizations […]
R&D investment by the one thousand public companies that spend the most on R&D increased 9.6% in 2011 to $603 billion after a 9.3% increase the previous year, according to Booz & Company’s eighth annual “Global Innovation 1000” report. R&D spending by the computing and electronics, health care and automobile industries accounted for 28%, 21% […]
Secondary ion MS (SIMS) provides trace analysis in solid samples, with detection levels in the parts per billion range. The technique can be utilized to provide imaging of a sample’s surface, or even a three-dimensional picture of the sample. The measurement process begins with an ion beam being directed at the surface. When the ions […]
Next spring, Carl Zeiss will begin shipping its Lightsheet Z.1 Light Sheet Microscope System, which was introduced this month at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. The original light sheet microscopy technology the System is based on was introduced by Carl Zeiss in the 1900s and has been adapted for three-dimensional fluorescence imaging in biology. […]
Company Announcements Wako Pure Chemical Industries agreed in May to market and service Yokogawa Electric’s CellVoyager CV7000 high-throughput cytological discovery system in North America and Europe. Yokogawa combines the system with a high-throughput screening system, providing a total drug discovery automation solution. In June, Fluxion Biosciences announced collaboration with the Stanford University School of Medicine. […]
Company Announcements The International Board of Biosafety Associations announced in April collaboration with Nuaire to improve the functionality of biological safety cabinets in Southeast Asia, Africa and other regions. JG Finneran Associates appointed Chebios in June as its exclusive distributor for Italy. Porvair reported that Seal Analytical sales for the half year ending May 31 […]
Company Announcements Quanterix named Paul Chapman president and CEO in July. Previously, he was vice president of the BioPharma Process Solutions at EMD Millipore. Pacific Biosciences named David Botstein, PhD, to its Board in July. He is director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and Anthony B. Evnin Professor of Genomics at Princeton University. […]
Company Announcements NorDiag sold its molecular diagnostics assets in May to DiaSorin for €7.6 million ($10.0 million) and changed its name to Norda. It will continue to sell its Magnatrix automated DNA purification systems. Precision System Science reorganized its structure, effective July 1, setting up a Global Sales & Marketing Group, Production and Supply Management […]
Australia’s midyear budget will cut Sustainable Research Excellence (SRE) grants by 40% to AUD 79 million ($81.9 million) for 2012–2013. Although research grants were not subject to cuts, the SRE grants, which have supported overhead expenses for research since 2009, will receive AUD 499 million less over the next four years than originally announced. Funding […]
R&D spending in China continued to grow in 2011, increasing 23% to CNY 868.7 billion ($139 billion). R&D spending accounted for 1.84% of the country’s GDP, up from 1.76% in 2010. Investment in basic research, applied research and experimental development, a term the Chinese government defines as “systematic activities aiming at using the knowledge from […]
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