US equity prices declined modestly in April despite strong corporate first-quarter earnings. The S&P 500 and NASDAQ slipped 0.7% and 1.5%, respectively. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was unchanged. First-quarter US GDP growth slowed to 2.2% from 3.0% in the fourth quarter of 2011. US durable goods orders for March were weaker than expected. Year […]
X-ray computed tomography (CT) is a standard imaging technique used in medicine. Outside of the hospital, CT has also found a home in the lab, primarily in the form of systems designed to analyze much smaller samples. These microCT systems provide high-quality three-dimensional imaging of samples. The technique, for either large or small samples, involves […]
Last month, PerkinElmer unveiled its Ensemble for Chemistry, one of four Ensemble suites. Ensemble for Chemistry is an electronic laboratory notebook (ELN)-based suite of applications for planning and logging experiments. End-users can input, store and analyze data. “There’s a real productivity gain because [end-users] can clone previous experiments and repeat them or change them slightly,” […]
Company Announcements In February, New England Biolabs (NEB) and Synthetic Genomics entered into a licensing agreement. NEB will introduce a master mix based on the Gibson Assembly method, which enables the rapid assembly of multiple DNA fragments using a one-step, isothermal approach. Eppendorf licensed patents covering gradient technology for thermal cyclers to Agilent Technologies in […]
Company Announcements BioServ Biotechnologies acquired the majority of Ocimum Biosolutions Inc.’s assets in February (see IBO 12/15/11), according to thedeal.com. Harvard Bioscience’s Biochrom subsidiary acquired AHN Biotechnologie, a German manufacturer of plastic consumables lab products, in February. The purchase is expected to add $2.5 million in annual revenue. In February, BellBrook Labs announced that Thermo […]
Company Announcements Endress+Hauser established a joint venture in Saudi Arabia with Anasia (Abudawood Group), with which it has collaborated for 10 years. The joint venture’s sales center operates from three locations and has 35 employees. In February, Sartorius Stedim Biotech signed a private-label agreement with Trace Analyzers, giving Sartorius exclusive rights to market, distribute and […]
Product Introductions HORIBA Scientific introduced the Aqualog benchtop fluorometer, which simultaneously measures absorbance spectra and fluorescence excitation–emission matrices, for the faster measurement of colored dissolved organic matter in water. X-Rite released NetProfiler 3.0 to verify, optimize and certify handheld and benchtop spectrophotometers used at locations worldwide on a regular basis. It now includes embedded profiling […]
The financial crisis in Greece has made an already dire situation even more difficult for researchers. Greece receives €3 billion ($4 billion) annually in structural funds from the EU. But only about 5% of this amount, which constitutes the majority of the country’s national research funding, goes toward research. Last year, the European Commission reduced […]
On April 17, the EPA released final standards for the reduction of air pollution from natural gas wells that use hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” Well operators have until January 2015 to employ techniques to trap natural gas that seeps from wells, so it can be used or sold. In 2009, about 1.1 million US wells […]
The “Nature Publishing Index 2011 Asia-Pacific” reveals that Japan leads the region in the number of scientific publications. The Index encompasses articles, letters and brief communications published in Nature and its 17 research journals in the 12-month period prior to the Index’s March release. There were 856 scientific publications attributed to Asia Pacific in that […]
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