Company Announcements JEOL announced in October 2013 the integration of Gatan’s 3View Serial Block Face Imaging System, an automated sectioning and image capture system, with its JSM 7100F field emission–scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to enable imaging of 3D structures. In November 2013, Zeiss granted a license to patents relating to LED fluorescence excitation in microscopy […]
Product Introductions In November, 2012, Magritek introduced the Spinsolve Carbon benchtop NMR spectrometer. Sales/Orders of Note Bridge12 Technologies announced in September 2013 the receipt of a three-year, $1.2 million Phase I NIH small business innovation research fast-track grant for the development of an integrated terahertz system for dynamic nuclear polarization–NMR that would eliminate the need […]
Company Announcements CambTEK named Kinesis its exclusive distributor of its Rapid Extraction System in Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and North America. CambTEK appointed Indtech Instruments its exclusive sales partner in India. Seal Analytical, a Porvair company, announced in September the acquisition of Thomas Cain, a manufacturer of automated chemical addition, sample preparation and digestion systems […]
Company Announcements Advion entered into its 10th OEM agreement in September 2013. In October 2013, Thermo Fisher Scientific announced a collaboration with the University of Salzburg’s Christian Doppler Laboratory for Biosimilar Characterization and scientists from Sandoz Pharmaceuticals to develop new methods for characterizing proteins to be used in biopharmaceuticals. Thermo will provide expertise for applying […]
Company Announcements In October 2013, Roche certified the University of Liverpool’s Centre for Genomic Research as a provider of Roche NimbleGen SeqCap EZ Services. Knome raised $5.8 million in a debt offering, according to an October 2013 SEC filing. In November 2013, Maverix Biomics announced a strategic comarketing agreement with QIAGEN to streamline the interpretation […]
Three Japanese ministries will work jointly in the next fiscal year (from April 1) on cancer research and treatment. Cancer is the number one cause of death in Japan, responsible for approximately 360,000 deaths in 2011. The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry; Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry; and the Economy, Trade and Industry […]
Lab reactors are generally used to optimize or reproduce large-scale chemical reactions at the lab bench. While simple, manual units make up the majority of the market, advanced systems equipped with sensors that control temperature, pH and pressure have become a more significant part of the market. Controlled lab reactors (CLR) typically employ a glass […]
President François Hollande has announced that cuts to France’s higher education and research budget will not occur. To reduce deficits, the government had planned to trim programs by €50 billion ($68 billion) over three years. Mr. Hollande stated that of €12 billion allocated to the Investments for the Future program, €2 billion will establish world-class […]
A survey of 38 nonprofit organizations and academic institutions conducting drug discovery research in the UK provides insight into the field and highlights its areas of need. Major challenges reported were lack of infrastructure for long-term funding and collaboration. The majority (87%) of research groups are academic, with most of their research focusing on cancer […]
A study of success rates of clinical drug development analyzed phase transitions in BioMedTracker from 2003 through 2011, including primary and secondary indications. The data set comprised 4,451 drugs from 835 firms. The “likelihood of approval” (LOA) (the probability of a drug reaching FDA approval from its current phase) was 10.4% for phase 1 to […]
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