As IBO detailed in the July 15 issue, analytical instrument and lab product firms are pursuing more direct sales opportunities in developing markets through new subsidiaries and offices. Five firms `recently announced similar expansions. In September, Life Technologies celebrated the opening of a Customer Experience Center in Moscow, Russia—its first demonstration laboratory facility in the […]
This month, AVIA Biosystems introduced its first product, the Model 2304 Automated Protein Denaturation System. Designed to determine protein stability, it automates chemical denaturation measurements. A complement to physical denaturation studies of protein stability, chemical denaturalization enables the measurement of thermodynamic values at a given temperature without the need to extrapolate from a higher temperature, […]
Company Announcements Helicos BioSciences licensed its intellectual property to Complete Genomics, Fluidigm, Illumina and Life Technologies. In September, Life Technologies introduced the Ion AmpliSeq Exome Certified Service Provider program. Life Technologies named TriCore Reference Laboratories a regional Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Center of Excellence. The NIH National Human Genome Research Institute awarded a research consortium […]
Company Announcements In September, Omega Engineering, a Spectris company, opened an office in Singapore to coordinate business through Southeast Asia. Product Introductions Xylem’s YSI brand introduced several new instrument lines, including the MultiLab IDS 4010 series of single- and multiparameter optical instruments and sensors for biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)-5 , pH, oxidation reduction potential (ORP) […]
Company Announcements Nanalysis opened a Boston, Massachusetts, office in August located at the Cambridge Innovation Center. Product Introductions Oxford Instruments launched in May the Pulsar benchtop NMR analyzer, featuring a 1.4 T (60 MHz) rare earth permanent magnet. Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced in August the Thermo Scientific picoSpin 80 portable benchtop NMR, featuring a 2 […]
Company Announcements Ionicon appointed RJ Lee its exclusive US distributor. Servomex named Charles Hurley, director of Sales and Marketing, managing director in June. Sartorius Stedim Biotech entered into a partnership to market and distribute BlueSens’ oxygen and carbon dioxide sensors, which will be sold as private label products under the name BioPAT Xgas. In July, […]
Company Announcements Michael E. Falk resigned for personal reasons from Cellular Dynamics International’s Board in August. In August, JSR became a minority owner in SCIVAX Life Sciences and will develop and expand SCIVEX’s 3D cell culture business and distribute products. AMSBIO agreed to distribute Sanguine BioSciences’ biospecimen collection products in Europe. ATCC announced in August […]
In 2013, the value of the Indian Pharmaceutical Market (IPM) grew 9.8% to INR 72069 crore ($12.3 billion), down from 16.6% in 2012. Slower growth has affected both leading Indian firms as well as multinational companies (MNCs), but growth has slowed more substantially for MNCs. The value of the five leading MNCs grew 16% in […]
McKinsey & Co. and the China Pharmaceutical Association forecast China’s retail pharmaceutical sales to increase 17% per year through 2020 to nearly CNY 1.9 trillion ($30.1 billion) in their base case scenario. In 2012, China accounted for 3.8% of sales on average for the top 10 multinational drug firms, compared with 3.0% in 2011. In […]
This month, the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety released a draft report on fraud in the EU food chain. Although the incidence of food fraud is increasing, the EU has no framework in place to address it and methods for dealing with it vary widely among member states. The […]
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