Scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM or NSOM) is a form of scanning-probe microscopy (SPM) that provides light-based imaging of surfaces at better resolution than traditional light microscopy. With light microscopy, diffraction limits resolution to roughly 250 nm. SNOM instruments can have resolutions an order of magnitude greater, down to about 10 nm. In SPM, piezoelectric […]
Company Announcements Freeslate integrated Wyatt Technology’s DynaPro Plate Reader II into its Biologics Formulation System. Fiscal second quarter sales ending March 31 for Brooks Automation Life Science Systems (LSS) climbed 38.4%, 15.3% excluding the acquisition of Matrical (see IBO 7/31/13), to $12.6 million to account for 10% of company sales (see IBO 5/31/14). Including the […]
Company Announcements In April, IDBS integrated its ELN for life sciences with Neural ID’s Intelligent Waveform Solution for automated biosignal recognition and analysis. IDBS partnered with Rancho Biosciences in April, enabling the companies to provide mutual customers with manual data-curation services for IDBS’s E-WorkBook products in the translational and clinical-research arenas. Ayasdi announced in April […]
FOSS 2013 sales rose 1.2%, 6% organically, to DKK 1,760 million ($313 million) (see IBO 3/15/14). Nanounity agreed to distribute HybriScan Technologies’ Raman spectrometers, which are designed for integration with SEMs. In April, Trinean entered into a manufacturing and supply agreement with Sony DADC for the production of disposables for storage and microcuvette analysis. Product […]
Company Announcements Clontech Laboratories, a subsidiary of Takara Bio, partnered with Vectalys in May to combine its Living Colors fluorescent protein and Tet-On 3G technologies with Vectalys’s expertise in providing ready-to-use lentiviral particles as vectors for gene delivery. The initial product offering will include somatic-cell–reprogramming kits used to generate iPSCs. Horizon Discovery entered into a […]
Three of China’s largest food companies—New Hope Group, COFCO Group and Wilmar International—have joined the Australia-Sino 100-Year Agricultural and Food Safety Partnership (ASA 100), initiated by Australian billionaire, and owner of Harvey Beef, Andrew Forrest. A goal of the partnership is to establish Australia as China’s “friendliest, largest, most reliable, highest quality, most competitive, most […]
An evaluation of research departments by Portugal’s Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) will change the funding level of many labs. Conducted every five years, the FCT’s evaluation of 322 research “units” rated 22%, 26% and 52% of them as fair or poor, good, and very good or better, respectively. Those rated at the lowest level […]
The Chinese Food and Drug Administration is permitting the use of medical products for genetic testing of birth defects, which it banned in February (see IBO 4/15/2014). The government explained difficulties in regulating the quality of testing and the excessive fees charged by some test providers as reasons for the ban. Since 2011, products for […]
Mycoplasma contamination of cell cultures has been a concern for decades. Contamination is often not visually apparent, and antibiotics commonly used in tissue culture are ineffective against the bacterium. A study of cell samples used in gene-expression experiments during 2012 and 2013 examined the cells’ RNA sequence data for Mycoplasma DNA sequences. Of the over […]
An analysis by Gartner predicts that capital spending by manufacturers in all areas of the semiconductor industry will increase 7.1% to $62.27 billion in 2014. Spending declined 1.2% in 2013 to $58.0 billion. Within capital spending, spending on capital equipment and on wafer-fab equipment will grow by 15.0% and 16.1% to $38.5 billion and $31.7 […]
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