While they are both based on similar physical principles, atomic fluorescence spectroscopy (AFS) is far less common a technique than atomic absorption spectroscopy (AA). Both provide elemental composition information and rely on the specific wavelengths of light that serve to identify particular elements corresponding to the lines in their atomic spectra. In both, the sample […]
BioTek Instruments will begin shipping its Cytation3 cell imaging multimode microplate reader in July. The system is available as a microplate reader, a microscope or both. The reader uses BioTek’s “hybrid” technology of filter-based and monochromator optics to measure absorbance, fluorescence and luminescence. The microscope uses inverted fluorescence and brightfield imaging and provides CCD-based image […]
Company Announcements CovalX named AMR a representative for Japan. In April, Bruker Daltonics and Biodesix agreed to collaborate to support Biodesix’s VeriStrat diagnostic test, a multivariate serum protein test for personalizing therapy for patients with lung cancer, and future diagnostic tests based on MALDI-TOF MS. Bruker announced a collaborative effort in April with Canada’s University […]
Company Announcements Gerresheimer’s 2012 Life Science Research sales improved 8.6%, 2.0% organically, to €99.6 million ($128.0 million). Currency added 7.8% to revenue growth, while a divested product line lowered growth by 1.2%. BINDER’s 2013 sales totaled €56 million ($72 million). SOTAX opened a subsidiary in the Czech Republic in April. RFCL changed its name to […]
Company Announcements Spinomix closed a Series A equity investment of $3 million, led by Debiopharm Group. Pressure BioSciences appointed Dr. Mickey Urdea, founder and managing partner of Halteres Associates, to its Board in February, replacing Wayne Fritzsche. In May, Perfinity Biosciences named Robert H. Ellis president and CEO. He was formerly president and CEO of […]
Company Announcements Miltenyi Biotec opened its first office in the Nordic and Baltic region in January in the city of Lund, Sweden, replacing the company’s distributor. Miltenyi Biotec partnered with Tree Star in January to distribute and support FlowJo 10 flow cytometry software in Europe, including Turkey and Israel. Miltenyi Biotech opened an office in […]
The Turkish government’s preliminary 2013 R&D budget is TRY 4,770 million ($2,463 million), which would be a 5.5% increase. By activity, 41% of the budget will support “general advancement of knowledge: R&D financed from General University Funds (GUF).” Defense, “general advancement of knowledge: R&D financed from other sources than GUF,” “industrial production and technology,” and […]
For the 17 countries for which data was available, public funding for higher educational institutions (HEIs) grew in nine countries and fell in eight from 2012 to 2013, according to the European University Association’s “Public Funding Observatory,” which obtained public funding data from questionnaires sent to the National Rectors’ Conferences earlier this year. In 2012, […]
On June 14, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang announced objectives for the country’s air pollution plan. For a number of industries, emissions of certain unspecified air pollutants will be lowered per unit of GDP by 30% by 2017. A previously set deadline for firms in industries such as iron, steel, cement, electrolytic aluminum and glass to […]
On June 24, the Obama Administration announced new objectives for the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), which was launched in 2011 to reduce the development time of materials for advanced manufacturing and to promote materials research collaborations. As part of the new objectives, the NIST will invest $25 million over five years in a new Center […]
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