IBO has selected Agilent’s 8800 triple quadrupole inductively coupled plasma–MS (ICP-MS) as the outstanding new product at this year’s ASMS meeting. While the majority of ICP-MS systems are based on single quadrupole mass analyzers, and there are a handful of TOF and magnetic sector systems, the 8800 is the first triple quadrupole ICP-MS. Thus, the […]
This year’s 60th annual conference of the American Society of Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) was held in Vancouver, Canada, from May 20 to 24. Attendance by both exhibitors and end-users was down marginally, from 169 and 6,477 in Denver, Colorado, last year to 165 and 6,283, respectively, this year. There were no fewer than a dozen […]
London, UK 5/9/12—LGC Standards has acquired VHG Labs, a US-based supplier of spectrochemical standards, lab instrument consumables and product-testing services, for an undisclosed amount. “For LGC Standards, this latest acquisition builds on our strategy to increase our footprint in the US market,” said LGC Standards Managing Director David Richardson. “Importantly, it is also a good […]
Greece has set the stage for a modern-era economic tragedy, as the country decides whether to abide by the bailout agreement or exit the Eurozone. An even graver concern is the fate of other European debt-ridden countries. These concerns coupled with softer US manufacturing growth, declining US consumer confidence and continued weakness in the US […]
Company Announcements Expanding their current agreement, in March, Cosmo Bio assumed a leadership position in Japan for the promotion, sale and high-level support of Enzo Life Sciences products. Also, Enzo will expand its global distribution of Cosmo Bio’s research biotools. Cellular Dynamics expanded its agreement with iPS Academia Japan to include iCell Neurons and iCell […]
The traditional method for performing gel electrophoresis experiments requires several pieces of equipment, such as a power supply, a staining apparatus, a UV light source and a camera. However, integrated gel electrophoresis systems combine many of these accessories into one compact unit. These integrated systems accept pre-cast gels, which can be purchased from the system […]
Company Announcements Techcomp announced in January that it is the exclusive distributor of Scientific Analysis Instruments’ MiniSIMS (secondary ion MS) in China, including Hong Kong. FEI entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement in January with the NIH, creating a “Living Lab Structural Biology Center” to promote structural biology research through the integration of […]
Company Announcements Hichrom announced in March the acquisition of the Partisil and Partisphere HPLC column consumables product line from Whatman, a division of GE Healthcare. In March, Novasep completed a €310 million ($410 million) recapitalization, including €30 million ($40 million) from Fonds Stratégique d’Investissement (see IBO 11/15/11). Product Introductions Thermo Fisher Scientific launched the Thermo […]
In April, Turkey’s Minister of Science, Industry and Technology Nihat Ergün announced a TRY 1 billion ($540.4 million) plan to create 81 science centers in the country. The Project on the Establishment of Science Centers aims to create centers in all metropolitan cities within two years and in every city within five years. The High […]
According to a survey conducted earlier this year by biotechnologie.de for the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the number of German firms focused solely on biotechnology grew 2.6% in 2011 to 552. The number of employees at such firms grew 5.3% to 16,300. Revenues were also on the upswing, increasing 10.5% to €2.6 billion […]
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