Instrument Design Awards: New Ideas The annual IBO Design Awards recognize advances in the industrial design of lab instruments, lab equipment (page 6) and portable instruments (page 7). To be eligible, products must have begun commercial shipments between August 1, 2014, and July 31. Criteria include innovation, functionality and utility. Gold Award Fluidigm’s Juno SNP […]
Surface area analyzers determine the characteristics of a solid, including how it burns, corrodes or reacts with other materials. Analysis is based on the interaction of the atoms on the surface of the solid material. As these atoms are not completely bound on all sides by other atoms in the solid, they are more reactive […]
Company Announcements In June, Agena Bioscience named KAWA.SKA and BioGen-Analytica as distributors for Poland and Russia, respectively. Waters named Taiwan-based Chang Gung University’s Health Aging Research Center as a Waters Centers of Innovation Program partner. Thermo Fisher Scientific announced a memo of understanding for research collaboration with Thailand’s National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, […]
Company Announcements Denator announced a two-year collaboration with the Maastricht MultiModal Molecular Imaging Institute of Maastricht University, the Netherlands, for the development and evaluation of innovative sample stabilization approaches for clinical applications. PE Hub reported in April that OpenGate Capital plans to shut down Hamilton Scientific (see IBO 10/31/12), which will be liquidated. In July, […]
Company Announcements In June, Spark Holland named LEAP Technologies as a value-added partner for US distribution. LEAP will initially focus on automated at-line systems integrated with the CTC PAL3 platforms and universal CHRONOS software. Phenomenex acquired Micron Analytica, its Spanish distribution partner, in June. Illumina, Merck KGaA and Genea established the Global Fertility Alliance to […]
Company Announcements In April, Singulex announced a partnership with the Dutch Technology Foundation to form the Biomarker Development Center. In May, MBio Diagnostics closed a $6.3 million Series B financing to further develop its portable, easy-to-use multiplex system that can detect all key analytes. Emulate announced in June research collaboration with Janssen Biotech to deploy […]
This year’s winners of IBO’s Design Awards for portable instrument utilize industrial design to integrate portability and utility. These battery-powered, instruments are designed for transport and use outside a lab. Gold Award The 2015 Gold IBO Design Award for portable instrumentation goes to DetectaChem’s SEEKERe colorimetric system for explosives and narcotics detection. The 2.6 x […]
This year’s winner of the IBO Design Award for laboratory equipment present new approaches to standard lab equipment industrial design that are both visually appealing, and increase the device’s functionality and ease of use. Lab equipment is defined as systems used in the lab that receive an electrical current, are operational for a minimum of […]
Central European countries spend less than 1% of GDP on R&D, besides Slovenia, which spends 2.6%. But a survey of 411 firms from 11 Central European countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia) revealed that companies in the region as a whole plan to increase their short- […]
R&D is on the rise in China, as the country attracted $5.5 billion in 88 foreign greenfield R&D projects from 2010 to 2014, according to fDi Markets. This places China at the top globally in amount invested in such projects, and second in number of projects to the US, which had 91. The pharmaceuticals, business […]
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