Major US equity markets were volatile in August due to uncertainty surrounding the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing policy, potential military intervention in Syria and mixed economic data. In the US, second quarter GDP was revised up from 1.7% growth to 2.5% growth and unemployment claims declined to a five-year low. However, US orders for both […]
Triple quadrupole LC/MS has established itself as the leading MS technique, as it can provide extremely accurate quantitation of trace level compounds in almost any type of sample. This has made it popular across a diverse range of industries and applications. Despite the size and relative maturity of the market, competitors have continued to enter […]
Company Announcements Ingenuity Systems, a QIAGEN firm, and Affymetrix announced in April they will copromote the Ingenuity iReport with Affymetrix expression microarray products. Real Time Genomics and the J. Craig Venter Institute announced in May a long term strategic collaboration to understand de novo mutations for stem cell progression studies and to deliver validated datasets. […]
Company Announcements In June, CovaIX and Bruker Daltonics announced a strategic collaboration. They jointly support the CovalX High Mass Detection System for all autoflex and ultraflex series instruments and provide new and existing Bruker MALDI customers with access to CovalX applications for protein identification and macromolecular analysis. Waters named the Flavor Research and Education Center […]
Company Announcements Oxford Nanopore licensed technology from the University of Cambridge for a hybrid nanopore that combines a solid state nanopore and DNA origami, which are small, well-controlled shapes made of DNA. Bloomberg reported that Illumina’s agreement related to Oxford Nanopore exonuclease sequencing technology will expire in 2016. Illumina holds a 15% stake in Oxford […]
Earlier this month, Brazil’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) announced the establishment of the Brazilian Nanotechnology Initiative to support nanoscience and nanotechnology. The Initiative will receive about BRL 440 million ($188.5 million) in 2013 and 2014. A goal of the Initiative is to connect academic infrastructure and businesses to boost research efforts. Source: […]
Testing by New Zealand’s Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) has revealed that whey protein concentrate made by Fonterra, the world’s largest processor of dairy products, does not contain clostridium botulinum, which can cause botulism, but rather bacteria clostridum sporogenes. Earlier this month, Fonterra announced a worldwide recall of products containing the concentrate after testing by […]
German biopharmaceutical sales increased 11% to €6 billion ($8.3 billion) in 2012, according to the Boston Consulting Group’s “Biotech Report 2013” released in June. Biopharmaceutical sales comprised 21% of the German pharmaceutical market last year, up from 19% in 2011. The growth in biopharmaceutical revenues was led by an increase in prescriptions for severe diseases. […]
China’s State Council issued a plan earlier this month to improve environmental protection and energy conservation. The plan prioritizes environmental protection as a “pillar industry” that will receive subsidies and tax breaks. The plan aims to advance environmental protection, which includes developing equipment, instruments and technologies for environmental monitoring and the treatment of water, solid […]
The number of employees at the 11 largest pharmaceutical companies declined 4% to 932,825 between 2007 and 2012. Three firms recorded a decline in headcount: Pfizer (-12%), AstraZeneca (-10%) and Sanofi (-2%). The only company to boost employment by more than 5% was Johnson & Johnson (9%). The annual change last year in employee numbers […]
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