Held for the first time in Washington, DC, the SLAS (Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening) 2015 conference and exhibit hosted 4,964 attendees and 296 exhibitors at the Walter E. Washington Conference Center, February 7–11. Attendance declined 14.7% from 2014, when the show was held in San Diego, California (see IBO 1/31/14), but was up […]
Gel electrophoresis uses electrical charge to separate macromolecules, such as DNA, RNA and proteins, by size or charge within a matrix. The matrix, or gel, is typically made of agarose or polyacrylamide. Samples are loaded into wells at the edge of a gel along with a ladder— a premade mixture of molecules with a known […]
The companies listed below—Danaher, FEI, Hitachi High-Technologies and Mettler-Toledo—are major providers of analytical instrumentation and laboratory products but are excluded from IBO’s Laboratory Instrument Sales Index due to their reporting format. Thus, the financial results for the fourth quarter and year-end 2014 for these companies are presented below. Fourth quarter 2014 sales for Danaher’s Life […]
Company Announcements Bruker announced in November 2014 that Techcomp will continue to manufacture the SCION GC and GC single-quadrupole MS product lines it acquired from Bruker (see IBO 10/15/14) in California. Bruker will continue to provide service and support for the product lines. Techcomp has a deferred option to acquire the service business in the […]
Company Announcements JEOL announced in its fiscal 2014 annual report that it acquired a stake in JEOL RESONANCE in December 2013 and formed a subsidiary. JEOL France donated a 400 MHz NMR to France’s International Bureau of Weights and Measures for its new lab as part of the Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance: Metrology […]
Company Announcements Eppendorf licensed patents covering gradient technology for thermal cyclers to SensoQuest in September 2014. Rubicon Genomics named new distributors in October 2014: CliniSciences for France, Spain and North Africa; Nerliens Meszansky for Norway; Shanghai Nanodigmnio Biotechnology for China; and GeneLabs Life Science for Taiwan. Rubicon Genomics 2014 sales grew 28%. RainDance Technologies named […]
Company Announcements Rosario National University in Argentina opened the Nikon International Center for Microscopy and Excellence in Latin America in December 2014, the first such site in Latin America. JPK Instruments opened its first US-based offices in Southern California in January. ZEISS sublicensed its Lattice light-sheet microscopy rights to Intelligent Imaging Innovations. ZEISS Microscopy revenue […]
Company Announcements Simulations Plus named John K. Paglia, PhD, associate dean at the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University, to its Board in November 2014, replacing Harold Wayne Rosenberger. Under a collaborative agreement, synthetic-biology software firm Genome Compiler integrated DNA2.0’s gene-synthesis services into its design platform. According to a November 2014 report […]
Company Announcements Genomics, a developer of an analytical platform for genomic-sequence data analysis and interpretation, completed a £10.3 million ($16.1 million) fundraising round in November 2014. In December 2014, Tute Genomics, a provider of a cloud-based genome analytics platform, raised $2.3 million in Series A1 funding. Kapa Biosystems expanded its partnership with Roche NimbleGen to […]
The second phase of South Korea’s Global Pharmaceutical Industry Development Fund has been launched. The Fund is designed to support mid-sized domestic pharmaceutical firms and includes funding for partnerships, overseas investments and GMP production facilities. The KRW 135 billion ($123 million) round of funding follows a KRW 100 billion investment in 2013. The Ministry of […]
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