Cloud computing is a recent technological development with the potential to significantly change lab workflows and facilitate access to data analysis techniques. Instrument companies are now entering this market space, providing cloud capabilities. With cloud computing, demanding data analyses can be performed without the difficulty of finding funds and space for additional hardware. The cloud […]
Darmstadt, Germany 10/20/15; Morris Plains, NJ 10/20/15; St. Louis, MO 10/20/15—Merck KGaA has agreed to sell Sigma-Aldrich’s lab research chemical business to Honeywell for €105 million ($119 million = €0.88 = $1) in order to comply with the EU’s antitrust requirements for Merck’s purchase of Sigma (see IBO 6/15/15). Honeywell Fine Chemicals, part of the […]
Company Announcements In September, Abcam announced that CFO Jeff Iliffe will resign within 12 months. Mara Glickman Aspinall has replaced him on the Board. She was formerly president and CEO of Ventana Medical Systems. Desktop Genetics, maker of the DESKGEN genome editing software, raised £1.37 million ($2.15 million). ArcherDX announced a partnership with BioChain to […]
Company Announcements AMETEK Process Instruments named Belilove Company-Engineers as its exclusive representative for Northern California. Metrohm announced a new brand, Metrohm Process Analytics, for its Applikon wet chemistry process analyzers and Metrohm NIRSystems instruments. Endress+Hauser opened a sales firm in Finland in July. In September, Endress+Hauser named Forberg Scientific as its exclusive representative for Wisconsin […]
Company Announcements Unchained Labs acquired Avid Nano, a developer and manufacturer of dynamic light scattering (DLS) systems, in July. Malvern Instruments established an applications lab at Servion Therapeutics. In August, Surface Measurement Systems announced the end of its six-year distribution agreement with Micromeritics/Particulate Systems, except in France. Fluid Imaging Technologies named Shanghai Sunyear Scientific as […]
Company Announcements Battelle named NicheVision as a distributor of its ExactID software for forensics in July. In August, Illumina, Warburg Pincus and Sutter Hill formed Helix, a company to empower consumers to discover insights into their genomes through an ecosystem of content partners. The company received over $100 million in financing commitments, and Illumina CEO […]
Following up on previous programs, in August, the Chinese government announced World Class 2.0, a plan for its best universities to attain world-class status. As revealed at the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development’s Higher Education Futures conference earlier this month, the program has been initiated despite some budgetary limitations. Under the plan, hubs for […]
To promote research in fields in which India relies largely on technology from abroad, the country’s government will launch a funding opportunity on November 5 of INR 1,000 crore ($154 million). An interministerial group will review projects and proposals submitted by India’s research and technology institutes for the awards. The IMPRINT funding mechanism will support […]
In 2014, the UK’s bioscience sector hit a financial high, raising £1.2 billion ($1.97 billion) in innovation capital, or equity capital raised by companies with annual revenues less than $500 million. This was an increase of 143% and more than one-third of the £3.9 billion in bioscience innovation capital that Europe raised that year. The […]
This month, Science and Nature both published papers calling for a government-led initiative for studying microbiomes. These communities of microorganisms, which influence human health and the environment, are becoming the subject of much interest and research, yet relatively little is known about how they function. However, some microbiomes have been successfully manipulated, such as through […]
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