Company Announcements In May, QIAGEN cofounder Dr. Detlev Riesner stepped down from the Supervisory Board. Dr. Elaine Mardis, codirector of the Genome Institute at Washington University and the Robert E. and Louise F. Dunn Distinguished Professor of Medicine, was proposed as a new member. Endress+Hauser revenues rose over 7% in 2013 to €1.8 billion ($2.4 […]
Bioreactors are vessels for cell culturing and have been widely used for much of the past century. Systems employ glass vessels for smaller applications (up to 20 L) and stainless steel tanks for larger reactions, and were cleaned or autoclaved and reused. In the past decade, the technology underwent a technological change with the introduction […]
Company Announcements In May, Igenbio opened an office in Japan. In June, One Lambda, a Thermo Fisher Scientific company, gained exclusive rights to GenoDive Pharma’s long-range primers and amplification conditions for HLA-locus–specific amplification in order to develop an IVD next-generation sequencing (NGS) kit. Rubicon Genomics added multiple European distributors, including Cambridge Bioscience for the UK […]
Company Announcements Thermo Fisher Scientific and Evans Analytical Group announced in May a collaboration to add pulsed ion-source technology to glow-discharge MS. In June, Thermo Fisher Scientific entered into a collaboration with Nuclea Biotechnologies to develop multiplexed-MS–based research methods for high-throughput quantification of native insulin and its therapeutic analogs. Thermo Fisher Scientific announced in June […]
Company Announcements Johnson Matthey reported that 2013 sales for Alfa Aesar were flat at £79 million ($123 million). Avantor Performance Materials named Helen Evans as vice president, Laboratory Products, in April. Most recently, she served as general manager, Research Markets, US and Canada, for GE Healthcare. In May, Avantor Performance Materials appointed Michael Stubblefield as […]
The winners of IBO’s portable analytical instrument design awards are products that are not only compact and stylish but address the unique challenges of doing analyses outside of the laboratory. A portable instrument is defined as one that is battery powered and is designed to be transported and used outside of a lab. Gold Award […]
Each August, IBO selects the winners of the IBO Design Awards, recognizing the industrial design of analytical instruments, laboratory equipment (page 6) and portable instruments (page 7) that are notable for their enhancement of the user experience. The accomplishments are aesthetic in terms of the product’s visual appeal and novelty, yet the industrial design also […]
IBO’s laboratory equipment design awards recognize creative and function industrial design of lab equipment, which is defined as receiving an electrical current, operational for a minimum of one year and unable to analyze a sample characteristic. Gold Award ELGA’s PURELAB Chorus laboratory water system is the winner of IBO’s 2014 Gold Industrial Design Award for […]
City governments in China are taking measures to improve the supervision of food safety. Oversight had been managed by multiple departments, resulting in an inefficient system. Some local-level governments have combined the bodies responsible for food safety. In Tianjin Municipality, for example, the Tianjin Market Quality Supervision Administration was established, unifying the separate duties of […]
Several entities are partnering to provide £300 million ($506.9 million) to the UK’s 100,000 Genomes Project. The funds are to accomplish the Project’s goal of sequencing 100,000 patient genomes by 2017 from the records of the National Health Service (NHS) to devise personalized-disease and cancer therapies. Illumina will grant £162 million over the next four […]
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