This month, the FDA finalized three new rules that are part of the Food Safety Modernization Act. The Produce Safety rule includes requirements for agricultural water testing, use of biological soil amendments, and prevention of sprout contamination. The Foreign Supplier Verification Program rule requires importers to verify that their suppliers meet US safety standards. Exempted […]
By 2020, spending on medicines will total $1.4 trillion, a 29%–32% increase in constant dollars from 2015, but down from 35% growth over the previous five-year period. The volume of medicines used from 2015 to 2020 will increase 24%. Original brands, nonoriginal brands, unbranded and OTC medicines will account for 52%, 21%, 14% and 13% […]
Rockville, MD 10/28/15—OriGene Technologies has acquired Germany-based Acris Antibodies, a supplier of antibodies for research, diagnostics and biopharmaceutical customers, for an undisclosed amount. Acris has 16 employees. OriGene stated that the acquisition will help it meet increasing demand from European distributors and customers.
London, UK 10/28/15—Digital imaging instrument firm Scientific Digital Imaging has acquired Sentek for £2 million ($3 million = £0.65 = $1) in cash. Sentek manufactures and produces electrochemical sensors, including pH and conductivity sensors, for water-based applications. For the year ending October 31, 2015, Sentek recorded revenues of £2.6 million ($4.0 million) and a profit […]
Darmstadt, Germany 11/18/15—On November 18, Merck KGaA finalized its $17 billion acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich (see IBO 9/30/14). Except for SAFC Hitech, which was integrated into Merck’s Performance Materials business, Sigma-Aldrich joined Merck’s Life Science business, which is expected to have combined 2015 pro forma revenues of €4.6 billion ($5.1 billion = €0.90 = $1) to […]
San Diego, CA 11/30/15—Genomics database firm Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI) has purchased Cypher Genomics for an undisclosed amount. Cypher Genomics, which has 14 employees, develops genomic interpretation software, including the Mantis platform for interpretation of genomic sequencing data to uncover clinically significant variants and the Coral biomarker discovery service. “Cypher Genomics has created important automated […]
Pfaffikon, Switzerland 11/20/15; Stockholm, Sweden 11/20/15—Technology firm Oerlikon has agreed to sell its Leybold Vacuum business to industrial tools provider Atlas Copco for CHF 525 million ($515 million = CHF 1.02 = $1) in cash. The business generated annual revenues of CHF 390 million ($415 million = CHF 0.94 = $1) as of June 30 […]
For major publicly held instrument and lab product firms, calendar year third quarter organic sales advanced at a steady pace, driven by demand from biopharmaceutical markets, especially in the US, Europe and Asia. For the businesses in the Life Science and Analytical Instrument Indexes (see page 9), as well as Becton, Dickinson Biosciences, combined sales […]
The EU’s 2016 budget was adopted by the European Parliament on November 25, restoring funding for the EU’s Horizon 2020 program that had been cut in the draft budget. Horizon 2020 is the EU’s primary mechanism for funding scientific research, with an estimated $103.4 billion budget from 2014 to 2020 (see IBO 12/31/13). Compared to […]
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