Company Announcements MyDx signed an exclusive patent sublicense agreement in May with Next Dimension Technologies for chemical sensing technology. In June, Techcomp named Hitachi High-Tech Science as a distributor for its Scion GC and GC/MS products in Japan. Product Introductions Restek released a new GC-MS/MS pesticide reference standards kit, containing over 200 compounds. Restek launched […]
Company Announcements SYGNIS named several distributors: D-Mark Biosciences distributes the TruePrime Single Cell WGA Kit in North America, Cambridge Bioscience distributes TruePrime products in the UK and Ireland, Welgene Biotech distributes the product portfolio in Taiwan, and Biotop distributes the product portfolio in Finland. In March, LGC announced a strategic cooperation agreement with Hua-zhi Rice […]
Company Announcements BIA Separations appointed Hichrom as a UK distributor in March. In March, Thermo Fisher Scientific announced the listing of its Thermo Scientific Prelude LX-4 MD HPLC as a FDA Class 1 medical device for general clinical use. BIA Separations named new distributors: Medi Analytika for India, Guangzhou Bairui Medicine for China, Labena for […]
Company Announcements Zwick/Roell acquired LATZKE Prüfmaschinen-Service in February, complementing its service and product offerings for hardness testing. LATZKE provides sales and service for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Benelux countries, Liechtenstein and Denmark. Particulate Systems, a Micromeritics Instrument brand, acquired the HEL Subsieve Autosizer product line for air-permeability particle sizing in March. In April, Quantachrome Instruments […]
Company Announcements Fluidigm named Steven C. McPhail as general manager of its Production Genomics Business in May. He previously served as president and CEO of Expression Analysis. The company also announced its plans to register as a medical device manufacturer with the US FDA, list certain of its products as FDA Class 1 devices and […]
This month, the South Korean government approved the “2016 Government R&D Project Budget Allocation and Arrangement.” The government plans to spend $11.2 billion on R&D projects next year, a reduction of 2.3%. The budget bill applies to 373 projects run by 19 departments. Despite the overall drop in R&D funding, the budget for small and […]
Last month, India’s cabinet approved a bill launching the Bureau of Indian Standards to develop the country’s standards for export products. The national standards are intended to prevent current private standards, such as those imposed on food by some supermarket chains, which may be higher than global standards, from being applied. The commerce ministry will […]
Scientists in Russia are concerned about how funding for scientific research will be distributed this year. According to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the government will support science with RUB 350 billion ($6.1 billion), the same amount as in 2014. Most of the funds will be awarded through a competitive process, with RUB 115 billion for […]
The Japanese government will work with three biobanks to improve medical treatments for patients based on their genetic information. Beginning next year, the country’s budget will include funds for this initiative in genomic medicine. The Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development and the biobanks will standardize data formats of people’s genetic information. The biobanks […]
The pharmaceutical industry’s investment in personalized medicine has jumped almost 90% in the last five years. Developers of diagnostic tests, many with FDA approval of their diagnostic devices, are working with pharmaceutical companies to codevelop drugs and companion diagnostics. This may speed up FDA approval of drugs, as the best-suited patients can be selected for […]
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