In June, Applied Biosystems launched the early-access program for its SOLiD System DNA sequencer.
A consistent need in a variety of market sectors, including security, environmental research and quality assurance and control is to be able to achieve laboratory-quality results in the field. IBO’s Portable Instrument Industrial Design Award acknowledges manufacturers’ success in solving the various challenges inherent to providing a portable version of a technique, and placing that […]
In March, Enzo Biochem announced that the US Board of Patents and Interferences entered judgment in its favor for its patent application for nucleic acid signal amplification over two Princeton University patents. The Chido Companies, owner of Clean Air Labs, established a strategic partnership with Roche Diagnostics to set a DNA-based standard for mold detection […]
Milford, MA 8/15/07—Waters has acquired Calorimetry Sciences Corporation (CSC). Based in Linden, Utah, CSC provides differential scanning and isothermal titration calorimeters and has annual sales of $4 million. Waters expects the transaction to be neutral to 2007 earnings.
Paoli, PA 8/13/07; Paris, France 8/13/07—AMETEK has acquired CAMECA SAS, a manufacturer of secondary ion mass and low-energy X-ray emission spectrometers, as well as tomographic atom probes and electron probe microanalysis instrumentation, for €82 million ($112 million) from the Carlyle Group. Based in Paris, France, CAMECA has annual sales of approximately €60 million ($82 million). […]
: In June, DuPont and Environmental Defense (ED) introduced the Nano Risk Framework, a joint effort to improve research on environmental, health and safety issues pertaining to nanotechnology. At its most basic level, the Framework calls for a multistep risk analysis assessment before the use of nanotech products or processes, followed by regular reexaminations of […]
IBO published its annual analytical and life science instrument industry forecast for 2007 in mid-January (see IBO 1/15/07). While we only had preliminary estimates of the industry’s 2006 performance, it was clear that the year was better than 2005. Still, a fair amount of uncertainty remained about our 2007 forecast, not the least being the […]
According to the results of survey published in June by, the top three choices for outsourced R&D were other companies (48.1%), independent R&D organizations (38.9%) and academia (35.1%). The two most popular types of outsourced work were new product innovations (32.1%) and new process innovations (31.3%). The two most common reasons for outsourcing were the […]
Millipore and CXR Biosciences introduced new antibodies for preclinical drug development in March. Corning Life Sciences released two 96-well microplates and two 100 mm tissue-culture dishes, featuring the Ultra-Web synthetic surface technology (see IBO 6/15/06). Promega introduced GloResponse Luciferase Reporter Cell Lines for cell signaling analysis. Sigma-Aldrich launched the AQUA (Absolute Quantitation) Peptide Partnership Program, […]
San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center again hosted the 2007 Semicon West exposition, which ran July 16–20. Last year, IBO noted a certain levity among the booths and exhibits (see IBO 7/15/06), as spirits were doubtless buoyed by the surge of business in 2006. Indeed, sales of semiconductor equipment in 2006 surpassed even the generous growth […]
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