On February 6, the NIH announced the Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP), a collaboration among the agency, 10 pharmaceutical companies, seven nonprofit organizations and one trade group, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). The program will be funded with more than $230 million over five years and will focus on three main areas: Alzheimer’s […]
Reaction calorimetry is a subtechnique of calorimetry that is associated with determining the heat produced by specific reactions under study. These reactions can be traditional chemical reactions or other processes that have thermodynamic properties, such as phase changes. Calorimeters give information on the total amount of heat, as well as the rate and kinetics of […]
Company Announcements Swift Biosciences announced in October 2013 the completion of a $7 million Series B financing. In November 2013, RainDance Technologies named BIOKÉ a distributor for its RainDrop Digital PCR Systems in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. BioMérieux selected Life Technologies’ 7500 instrument range as the preferred thermocyclers for its new molecular biological […]
Company Announcements Cemtrex announced in fall 2013 a US distribution agreement with SensEvolution, a division of BAGGI, for process oil and gas analyzer systems. Industrial Scientific sold its Oldham fixed-point gas detection business to Industrial Safety Technologies in October 2013. In November 2013, ATAC acquired Guided Wave Europe, Guided Wave’s sales and service operation for […]
Company Announcements ANDalyze named Hach an authorized distributor. SciAps received in November 2013 a $2.5 million investment led by new investor Gefinor Ventures. In December 2013, Datacolor opened a sales and service company in São Paulo, Brazil. FOSS announced in January that it will close its site in Höganäs, Sweden, which employs 160, by the […]
Following newly reported financial information, IBO has updated quarterly sales and operating profit results for the Laboratory Sales Index that appeared in the November 15, 2013, issue. Third quarter 2013 Index sales grew 1.5%, 0.8% excluding currency, to $5,904 million. Operating profit climbed 2.7% to $1,206 million, and operating margin advanced 20 basis points to […]
Company Announcements Shimadzu Analytical Instruments opened a Taiwanese subsidiary in November 2013. In November 2013, Imspex Diagnostics acquired GAS, a provider of ion mobility spectrometry technology. For the fiscal half year ending September 28, 2013, Halma Environmental & Analysis revenue grew 9.4%, 3% organically, to £82.6 million ($127.3 million) to make up 25% of revenues […]
Company Announcements Takara Bio expanded its license agreement with iPS Academia Japan in September 2013, enabling it to offer iPS cell construction services and reprogramming vectors, and to sublicense to its customers the right to screen chemicals for drug discovery using cells differentiated from iPS cells derived from the licensed products. Novus Biologicals acquired Imgenex […]
As part of the Canadian Economic Action Plan 2014, the Canada First Research Excellent Fund will be created to advance science research. Over the next 10 years, the program will provide CAN 1.5 billion ($1.36 billion) to higher education institutions. Funding will be CAN 50 million in 2016, increasing in increments of CAN 50 million […]
Kyoto, Japan 2/10/14; Boston, MA 2/12/14—HORIBA has acquired the assets of Photon Technology International (PTI), a supplier of fluorescence spectroscopy research instrumentation, including microscopy-based fluorometers. The purchase price was not disclosed. Based in New Jersey, PTI has 40 employees at sites in the US, UK, Canada and Germany. HORIBA stated that it aims to increase […]
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