Water baths are used to hold lab specimens or reagents at desired temperatures. The relatively high heat retention of water allows it to maintain its temperature. The applications of water baths span a wide range and include coliform determination, immunohistochemistry and microbiological assays. Some of these applications, such as biochemical experiments, require high temperature precision […]
Company Announcements PicoQuant entered into an agreement with the Max Planck Society and the German Cancer Center to use gated STED (stimulated emission depletion) technology in its MicroTime 200 STED time-resolved confocal microscope for increased photostability and live-cell capability. In February, FEI and the Tsinghua University Branch of National Center for Protein Sciences Beijing announced […]
Company Announcements Dassault Systèms announced that 2014 revenue for its BIOVIA brand (formerly Accelrys) increased around 5% excluding currency effects. New license revenue rose more than 20% excluding currency effects. GenoLogics opened a new office in Redwood City, California, in February. Dotmatics joined the Pistoia Alliance. In March, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount […]
Company Announcements Under a commercial supply agreement announced in February, MRM Proteomics granted Cambridge Isotope Laboratories (CIL) exclusive rights to its PeptiQuant kits for quantitative proteomics, including its Stable Isotope Standards as part of the kits, which CIL will distribute. The first Biomarker Assessment Kit allows for 76 proteins to be quantitated in a single […]
Company Announcements Cepheid 2014 Non-Clinical revenue declined 29.9% to $29.0 million, or 6% of total revenues, primarily due to lower sales of anthrax test cartridges. North America accounted for 86% of Non-Clinical sales. Non-Clinical revenue is expected to decline again this year. WaferGen Bio-systems entered into a research collaboration with the Familial Breast Cancer Research […]
Company Announcements In January, Shimadzu opened a subsidiary in Malaysia with 44 employees. The company also plans to establish a manufacturing facility for Analytical and Measuring Instruments and an applications lab at the location. The new plant is expected to begin operation in December 2016. Local distributors will still be utilized for XRF spectrometers, optical […]
Fiscal first quarter sales ending December 31, 2014, for Brooks Automation Life Science Systems (LSS) grew 36.8%, 7.3% excluding the acquisition of FluidX (see IBO 10/15/14), to $16.7 million (see page 12) to account for 14% of company sales. Product revenue grew 56.9%, 12.7% excluding the acquisition, to account for 77% of LSS revenue. LSS […]
As a result of Russia’s economic crisis and the devaluation of the ruble, the country will decrease its funding for national universities this year by at least 10%. The government expects the universities to make up the difference, from $4.2 billion last year to $3.8 billion this year, by acquiring private funds and investments, commercializing […]
“The Nature Index 2015” for the Asia-Pacific region was released in March. The Index tracks articles published in selected science journals chosen by a group of independent researchers, and is used to assess the impact and productivity of countries. A country’s weighted fractional count (WFC) is a measure of articles with authors from a country, […]
A survey conducted by Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) of European and US chemical firms found a wide range of plans for R&D and capital spending for 2015 as a result of economic conditions in the US, Europe and China. The eight companies providing estimates of R&D spending anticipated expenditures totaling $3,574 million, a gain […]
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