State health labs in the US have received government funding to purchase sequencers from companies such as Illumina and Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Life Technologies. Congress aims to equip public health labs in all states with the ability to conduct whole genome sequencing for the detection and study of drug-resistant bacteria by 2018. Each year, antibiotic-resistant […]
The growing use of technologies in agriculture is helping turn farms into factories. Known as “precision farming” or “precision agriculture,” this evolving method of agriculture aims to increase productivity in farms while keeping costs low. Genome editing is a key aspect of precision farming, as it is used to develop an understanding of the genomic […]
In 1999, R&D made up 2.07% of South Korea’s GDP and by 2014, that number reached 4.29%, or $60.5 billion. This makes South Korea the global leader in R&D investment as a percentage of GDP, followed by Israel, Japan, the US, China and the EU. By 2017, the country plans to increase R&D investment to […]
In a survey of 400 respondents examining corporate R&D spending in 10 Central European countries (Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia), 45% of companies plan to increase R&D spending in the next 1–2 years, and 57% plan to increase it in the next 3–5 years. Respondents in Slovakia, Croatia and […]
Globally, IPOs in the biotechnology industry have slowed in the first quarter; however, biotech venture capital (VC) in the UK has remained strong since 2015, accounting for 27%, or £178 million ($201.8 million), of the EU’s total biotech VC financing. In 2015, £489 million was raised in VC, a 51.4% increase. The 2015 trend of […]
Company Announcements In February, DKSH expanded its marketing partnership with Malvern Instruments, adding the MicroCal and NanoSight product ranges in Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. In March, DKSH signed an exclusive distribution agreement for C-Therm’s Thermal Conductivity Analyzer and Dilatometer product line in Australia and New Zealand. In May, Biolin Scientific announced […]
Company Announcements In March, Microsaic Systems named Christopher Buckley to its Board. Most recently, he was a Global Brand director at Novartis. Waters announced in March that the University of California San Diego School of Medicine’s Center for Advanced Laboratory Medicine joined its Centers of Innovation Program. In April, SCIEX announced a collaboration with CRO […]
Company Announcements First quarter sales for INFICON’s Security & Energy business (formerly Emergency Response & Security) climbed 64.1% to $6.4 million, or 6% of total sales. In June, Activated Research (ARC) partnered with Wasson-ECE Instrumentation, which will provide a private label version of ARC’s Polyarc catalytic microreactor. Wasson-ECE is now the global distribution channel for […]
Company Announcements In May, Tribogenics added PE Systems, PSS and Hitech as distributors for the US West Coast, Nevada and Utah. Eurocontrol Technics’ 2015 Detectors and Other sales, which include all Xenemetrix revenue, declined 15.7% to CAD 1.3 million ($1.0 million). Product Introductions HORIBA launched the Differential Interferometry Profiling option for its glow discharge […]
Company Announcements In January, Vashaw Scientific announced it is now a distributor for ZEISS microscopy in the Southeast US. Leica Microsystems announced in May that it has taken over direct sales for industrial and forensics customers in the Southeastern US from Vashaw Scientific. In April, FEI and CEOS delivered the first sub-Ångstrom, low-voltage TEM to […]
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