Compendia Bioscience received a $2.4 million Small Business Innovation Research Fast Track Award from the National Cancer Institute for the project, “Development of Oncomine Professional as a Platform for Biopharmaceutical Research and Development.”
: Last month, the Chinese legislature passed a revision of its 1993 Science and Technology (S&T) Progress Law. According to the revised law, China’s overall R&D spending in the public and private sectors should increase steadily each year. Current plans state that China’s R&D spending will account for 2.5% of its GDP by 2020. The […]
East Hills, NY 1/29/08—Pall announced that it has completed its inquiry of the understatement of US federal income tax payments and the provision for income taxes from 1999 through 2006 (see IBO 8/31/07). The company found intercompany balances were due primarily to the sales of products by Pall Netherlands to Medsep, resulting in dividend income […]
Dendritics SAS appointed Imgenex the exclusive distributor of its monoclonal cell research antibodies in North America and India. Cell Signaling Technologies is offering a noncommercial, royalty-free license to its PhosphoScan Profiling technology and information from its PhosphoSite knowledgebase to academic and nonprofit institutions. Exiqon A/S granted Applied Biosystems a license to its Locked Nucleic Acids […]
Thermo Fisher Scientific is now distributing EDAX’s electron backscatter diffraction systems to complement its Noran System Six X-ray microanalysis system. Xstream Systems named Blue Ridge X-Ray a distributor of its XT250 ED-XRF for identification of counterfeit drugs in the pharmaceutical supply chain. Shimadzu Japan introduced the ICPE-9000 ICP emission spectrometer. Available in multitype and sequential […]
The Russian Cabinet approved a plan (see IBO 5/31/07) to increase sales in Russia’s nanotechnology sector from RUB 7 billion ($273.9 million) in 2007 to RUB 900 billion, or 3% of the global nanotechnology market, by 2015. The plan will support research and increase the number of businesses involved in the sector. At present, there […]
Malvern, UK 1/17/08—Malvern Instruments, a Spectris company, has acquired Viscotek, a provider of chromatography and viscometry products for the characterization of natural and synthetic polymers and proteins. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, Viscotek offers systems for gel permeation chromatography, flow injection polymer analysis and dilute solution viscosity. “Viscotek has a long-established reputation […]
With the US Congress having completed its work for 2007 without reauthorizing the R&D tax credit, thousands of companies can expect tax increases in 2008. The R&D Credit Coalition estimates that the credit is equal to an average of six cents for every R&D dollar. Eleven thousand companies currently claim the credit, which saved businesses […]
Ovens and furnaces are one of the most basic pieces of scientific equipment in the modern laboratory. Ovens are typically used for drying, baking or curing samples and can manage temperatures of up to 300°C. Furnaces, which can generate temperatures over 1700ºC, are used for firing ceramics, melting metals and glass and curing, forming and […]
Palm Springs, CA 1/27/08—Thermo Fisher Scientific has acquired nAscent Biosciences, a supplier of liquid handling consumables for drug discovery screening. NAscent’s PocketTip pipette tip features nanoliter metering and microliter diluting and can be used with a variety of liquid handling systems and handheld pipettors. According to Timo Hilden, vice president and general manager of Thermo […]
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