Company Announcements In January, Cellectis announced that it integrated its Ectycell and Cellectis bioresearch segments. Cellectis bioresearch also completed a capital increase of €3.5 million ($4.8 million) from Caisse des Dépôts, which now holds a 24.5% share in Cellectis bioresearch (see IBO 12/15/13). Biomatrica signed a distribution agreement with Sigma-Aldrich in January. TGR BioSciences and […]
Company Announcements Rancho BioSciences partnered with OmicSoft in September 2013 for manual data curation. Goinformatics and TeselaGen announced a strategic partnership to integrate their respective GoLIMS platform, and computer-aided design and manufacturing platform for prototyping biomolecules in a cloud-based platform. Core Informatics opened a London, England, office in December 2013. Chemical Abstracts Service and PerkinElmer […]
Company Announcements German distributor Altmann Analytik acquired Dinkelberg analytics in January. Techcomp announced in January that it will acquire the remaining 49% equity interest in Jingke Scientific, a Chinese instrument manufacturer, and 51% equity interest in Jingke Trading from INESA Electron for $2.1 million. The Jingke companies had 2012 sales of $10.2 million. Agilent Technologies […]
Premier Li Keqiang has announced China’s 2014 science and technology budget, which will increase 8.9% to CNY 267.4 billion ($43.6 billion). Basic research funds will rise by 12.5% to $6.6 billion. Sixteen megaprojects, mostly in engineering and applied research, will receive $8.1 billion. Two of these projects, drug discovery and infectious disease research, have a […]
Japan’s proposed Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) budget for 2014 will increase 1.1% to ¥3,626 billion ($36.3 billion). The budget will become final in March after approval by the Diet, which is unlikely to change it appreciably. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology will receive 63.8% of the funds, a decrease of […]
With the passing of the 2013 deadline for the second phase of the EU’s REACH policy (see IBO 12/15/06), the framework is now in place for regulating chemicals produced at 100–1,000 tons per year. A 2010 deadline applied to substances of very high concern (SVHC) and chemicals produced at levels above 1,000 tons per year. […]
US President Obama has submitted his 2015 budget request, totaling $3.9 trillion, to Congress. Agencies funding scientific research did not fare well, with increases insufficient to offset inflation in most cases. The requested $30.4 billion budget for the NIH’s is only a 0.7% increase. However, the NIH’s spending for the BRAIN initiative (see IBO 4/15/13) […]
The amount of nanotechnology patent literature has grown exponentially since the early 2000s. In 2013, it increased by 5%. By country, 54% of patent literature assignees were from the US, followed by 8% from South Korea, 8% from Japan and 6% from Germany. By region, approximately 57% were from North America, 28% from Eastern Asia […]
In the first half of 2013, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) surveyed its member nations about genetically modified (GM) crops in international trade. Of the 75 respondents, 77% had food, feed or environmental regulations for GMOs, while 15% did not, but planned to. In imported food or feed, low level presence (LLP) of […]
Atomic Spectroscopy SciAps revealed its handheld laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) instrument, which is available in two models, the Z 500 and the Z 100. The system is comparable to handheld XRF for heavier elements, but LIBS can also detect lighter elements that are difficult or impossible for XRF to detect. The laser is an […]
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