SGE Analytical Services signed a joint R&D agreement with the Australian Proteome Facility for applications of its ProteCol LC platform and microfabrication technologies for protein biomarker discovery. Waters entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the EPA’s National Exposure Research Laboratory to develop trace level analytical methods for detecting perfluorinated compounds in soil […]
Compared with R&D powerhouses such as the US and Japan, a number of countries in Europe have low R&D spending levels. Many of the newly elected leaders of European nations emphasized the importance of improving R&D performance during their campaigns. IBO examined three countries that have recently elected new leaders to determine how well these […]
In April, JEOL USA announced the 1,000th shipment of a SEM from JOEL Technics, one of the company’s design and manufacturing branches in Akashima, Japan. Oxford Instruments shipped its 100th INCAx-act Analytical Drift Detector, developed by Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis and Ketek GmbH, from its UK factory.
GenTel BioSciences announced in March that it acquired GlaxoSmithKline’s protein chip platform assets. Affymetrix launched the Collaborations in Cancer Research Program, an alliance with 30 European cancer researchers. Later this year, the Program will be expanded to North America and Japan. In April, Affymetrix and NuGEN Technologies announced a comarketing agreement for NuGEN’s WT-Ovation FFPE […]
A number of biotechnology companies are moving into the market for combination drugs, which are mixtures of two already-approved drugs. Most companies are drawn to the cost-saving opportunities that lie in combining two drugs that have already been approved. Prominent firms in the combination drugs business include CombinatoRx, Pozen and Orexigen. The increasing number of […]
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it will invest $375 million to support three new Bioenergy Research Centers from fiscal year 2008 to fiscal year 2013. The Centers will be established in Oakridge, Tennessee; Madison, Wisconsin; and near Berkeley, California. The Centers will be hubs of collaboration, staffed by groups of researchers from 18 […]
Hitachi High-Technologies Japan launched the HF-3300 field emission transmission electron microscope. Shipments will start in September with expected annual sales of five units. Park Systems, formerly PSIA, introduced the XE-70 AFM/scanning probe microscope. FEI introduced RAPID (Remote Access Program for Interactive Diagnostics) in North America.
Rochester, NY 7/9/07—Thermo Fisher Scientific has acquired the assets of the OptiCell product line, consumable products for cell culture growth, from BioCrystal for an undisclosed amount. Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Nalge Nunc International subsidiary has exclusively distributed the product since last year. “This acquisition helps us leverage and further develop OptiCell as a next generation cell […]
febit launched a Geniom Biochip for all known microRNA sequences, available as a Ready-To-Go-Biochip or made on site by the company’s Geniom One instrument. In May, febit introduced the Geniom RT Analyzer for sample hybridization, automated processing and analysis for multiple applications, including multiplex amplification on a chip and dynamic detection. Geniom Biochips can be […]
Graz, Austria 6/29/07—Anton Paar GmbH has acquired German company Dr. Wolfgang Kerchen GmbH, a maker of refractometers and polarimeters, effective July 1. Dr. Wolfgang Kerchen’s primary market is the sugar industry and it has served as the exclusive supplier of high-precision refractometers to Anton Paar.
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