Advanced moisture analyzers measure moisture content in solids, liquids or gases. These systems employ capacitance, IR, automated Karl Fischer titrations (KFTs) or other techniques to obtain more precise and quicker measurements compared with the loss-on-drying method (LOD), in which a sample’s mass is compared before and after it is fully dried using an autoclave or […]
Company Announcements Zeiss Microscopy sales fell 3.2% to €629 million ($828 million) for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, to make up 15% of revenues. The decline was due to restrained public sector investments in the US and Europe. Tescan established a UK subsidiary in December 2013, including a sales and service facility in […]
Company Announcements NanoString Technologies secured in January an exclusive option from Massachusetts General Hospital to license intellectual property related to a novel approach for multiplex protein analysis using its nCounter system. Agilent Technologies entered into a comarketing agreement in January with Picometrics Technologies to provide combined solutions for capillary electrophoresis (CE), laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) detection […]
Company Announcements Dr. Junying Yuan, head of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Interdisciplinary Research Center on Biology and Chemistry, received an Agilent Technologies Thought Leader award in December 2013. Astrotech subsidiary 1st Detect entered into a strategic OEM agreement with Rigaku in January for its OEM-1000PI MS, which was integrated with Rigaku’s thermogravimetric analyzer to […]
Company Announcements Spinomix named Nasri Nahas as CEO in January. He previously served as CEO of GeneBio. In 2014, CambTek named the following exclusive distributors: Pragolab for the Czech and Slovak Republics, Synersy for France and ITS Sciences for South Korea. In February, Agilent Technologies agreed to comarket CambTEK’s Rapid Extraction System sample preparation technology […]
Company Announcements Roche’s 2013 sales of nucleic acid purification/real-time PCR reagents and systems in the life sciences market grew 6%. QIAGEN adjusted fourth quarter 2013 sales grew 4.6%, 2% organically, to $362.6 million (see IBO 1/31/14). All figures below are on a currency-neutral basis. Consumables and related sales expanded 7%, 3% excluding acquisitions, to make […]
The Nature Publishing Group has produced the “Nature Publishing Index 2013” (NPI) for the Asia-Pacific region. The NPI tracks publication of primary research articles in its group of journals from each country. Articles with authors from the region increased 36%, comprising 31% of the global NPI, up from 28%. Based on the corrected count (CC), […]
The Swedish government has increased its amount of R&D funding 2.6% to SEK 32.9 billion ($5.1 billion), or 4% of its total 2014 budget. Statistics Sweden estimates that approximately half the R&D budget will support institutions of higher education for a total of SEK 16.4 billion, an increase of 2.5%. The Swedish Research Council will […]
The Chinese government banned in February clinical genetic testing by hospitals and other selected medical institutions. The announcement, which was posted on the China Food and Drug Administration website, cited prenatal testing as an example of the types of tests that are affected. Permission from the government is now required in most cases in order […]
R&D spending, both domestic and abroad, by Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) firms in 2013 totaled $51,060 million, up 3.0% compared to a gain of 1.9% in 2012. In 2013, members increased domestic spending 6.9%, a change from 3.1% in 2012, to comprise 79% of total R&D. Spending abroad fell 9.1%, compared to […]
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