Company Announcements Anzu Partners acquired Axsun Technologies from Volcano, a Royal Philips subsidiary, in October 2015. Axsun’s management team remains in place. In October 2015, Finesse Solutions announce the establishment of a branch office in Leicester, UK. GE Healthcare Life Sciences announced in November 2015 a collaboration to integrate Emerson’s DeltaV distributed control system with […]
Cell studies have generally examined populations of cells in the thousands and millions. With the use of statistical models, this work has played a significant part in disease (i.e., cancer) research and discoveries. However, with the advancements of analytical techniques, many researchers have shifted their focus to single-cell analysis, which has created strong demand for […]
Company Announcements Corning announced in November 2015 that, as of January 1, it is distributing BioCision’s cell cryopreservation products. In November 2015, Baylor Miraca Genetics Laboratories licensed Oxford Gene Technology’s SNP array probe technology as an alternative to restriction enzyme–based approaches. Oxford Gene Tecnhnology announced that fiscal 2015 sales for the period ending September 30, […]
Company Announcements First Detect, an Astrotech company, announced in November 2015 the passing of CEO Bob C. Kibler. Thomas B. Pickens III, chairman and CEO of Astrotech and chairman of 1st Detect, will serve as acting CEO. In November, Microsaic named Dr. Jim Ramage, a company director, as CEO, effective January 31. He previously served […]
Company Announcements Puridify, maker of the single-use FibroSelect purification technology, closed a £2.2 million ($3.4 million ) Series A funding round in October 2015, bringing the total raised, including grant funding, to £8 million ($12 million). Following a November 2015 agreement, ACCHROM Instrument Technologies will market an OEM version of DataApex’s Clarity Chromatography Software under […]
Company Announcements The Hindu Business Line reported in December 2015 that Thermo Fisher Scientific will add 70 employees to its approximately 180-employee Global Technology Development Centre in Bengaluru, India, this year. Personnel at the company’s R&D Center in Bengaluru will double to 90 employees this year. Illumina announced in December 2015 four new Illumina Accelerator […]
A total of 500 research institutes won 60% of Europe’s €55 billion ($59.5 billion) Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) budget, according to an independent review completed late last month by international academics. The review analyzed the effects that FP7 had on scientific and economic growth, finding that 85% of FP7 funding was allotted to research firms […]
On January 26, the National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People’s Republic of China issued the “Notice of Health and Family Planning Working Essentials for 2016,” which enables private investments in the life sciences industry. In accordance with the notice, the government of China plans to make improvements to the country’s health care […]
At January’s end, President Obama established the Cancer Moonshot Task Force, which aims to enable developments in cancer research. The National Cancer Moonshot is a $1 billion initiative to aid scientists and researchers in accelerating research and treatments for cancer. For 2016, $195 million in new cancer-related activities at the NIH has been invested, and […]
GenomeAsia 100K, a nonprofit organization dedicated to producing genomic data for Asian populations for genetic research and discovery, recently announced its plan to sequence 100,000 genomes. Initially, the project will study genomic data of 12 South Asian countries and a minimum of 7 North and East Asian countries. The first phase of the initiative will […]
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