Company Announcements Affymetrix promoted James Gibson, vice president of accounting and corporate controller, to principal accounting officer in December 2006. In January, Illumina signed a collaborative agreement with the Mayo Clinic to codevelop molecular diagnostic tests for the study of complex diseases. Partek’s Genomics Suite achieved GeneChip-compatible status for analysis of SNP association studies using […]
Integromics SL, a provider of software solutions for genomic and proteomics data management and analysis, joined Microsoft’s BioIT alliance in November 2006. Text-mining software company Clarabridge joined Microsoft’s BioIT alliance in January. Bioinformatics provider CLC bio became a member of Microsoft’s BioIT alliance in January. Thermo Fisher Scientific joined Microsoft’s BioIT alliance in January. GNI […]
PREMIER Biosoft released SimGlycan for predicting the structure of a glycan from mass spectrometry data. Biber Technologies launched FirstAlight ERP Laboratory Software for the small to medium-sized lab. TAL Technologies released WinWedge Pro 4.0 for interfacing RS232 and TCP/IP devices, such as lab equipment and instruments, to any Windows application. CLC bio released the CLC […]
Numerous new products are introduced each year at Pittcon. However, Pittcon is not what it used to be for product introductions (see page 4). Thus, while IBO always has plenty of new products to choose from for its annual pick of the top product introductions at the show, Pittcon is not the first exhibition for […]
In February, the Chinese government admitted that the country did not achieve its emission reduction goals in 2006. As part of a long-range plan to lower chemical oxygen demand (COD) and sulfur dioxide emissions by 10% from 2006 to 2010, the goal for 2006 was to lower COD and sulfur dioxide emissions by 2%. But, […]
Hopes were high for Pittcon this year. After all, the conference was returning to Chicago, Illinois following a two-year stint in Orlando, Florida. Although not as temperate as Florida, in 2004, Chicago had hosted a Pittcon attended by over 25,000, the highest attendance in past six years. Preliminary numbers as of February 28 show a […]
Company Announcements In January, eGene entered into a distribution agreement with Fisher Scientific Canada for the HAD-GT12 system. eGene entered into a three-year distribution agreement with Gene Company for China. Under a value-added reseller agreement, Picometrics SA will provide Agilent Technology’s capillary electrophoresis system coupled with its laser induced fluorescence detector. In February, Advanced Analytical […]
IonSense named KR Analytical as the European distributor for its DART MS ion source in November 2006. Bruker Daltonics and HealthLinx will file a joint patent cooperation treaty for the biomarker candidates for pregnancy complications discovered under their existing collaboration. Bruker Daltonics retains marketing rights to the blood test in Europe, UK, Africa and South […]
Since 2000, biomedical sciences (BMS) manufacturing output in Singapore has nearly quadrupled. According to the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, total expenditure on biomedical research in Singapore grew from SGD 310.7 million ($203.7 million) in 2001 to SGD 888.9 million ($582.8 million) in 2005. The latest step in this growth trend was a 30.2% […]
Upcoming moves by the FDA could spur a number of pharmacogenomic studies for warfarin and eventually bring pharmacogenomic tests into the mainstream. The Food and Drug Administration is considering changes to the label of warfarin, a popular anticoagulant, that warn consumers of the drug’s varying effects on people depending on their genotypes. While there are […]
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