Overall R&D investment by Spain was 1.03% of GDP—roughly half the EU-15 average—in 2005. Some members of the government believe the poor R&D investment is due in part to a lack of Spanish registered patents. To overcome this barrier, a program to stimulate patent registration, which aims to increase the number of European patents registered […]
This month truly exemplified the unpredictable nature of the stock market. Just as investors seemed to embrace a renewed faith in steady interest rates and unrelenting mergers and acquisitions, questions surrounding the housing market and federal interest rates resurfaced. The Dow Industrial Average and S&P 500 began June with new highs of 13,676.32 and 1,539.18, […]
Santa Clara, CA 6/18/07—Agilent Technologies’ Life Science and Analytical Instruments Group has acquired the Kalabie electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) product line from Klee Group. Financial details were not disclosed. All employees of Kalabie have joined Agilent and will remain based in Paris and Montpellier, France. Agilent plans to integrate the Kalabie ELN with its OpenLAB […]
In June, the FDA announced a final rule that will require current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) for dietary supplements. The rule was created to assure that supplements contain proper amounts of the correct ingredients and to avoid contamination by natural toxins, bacteria, pesticides or heavy metals. The final rule establishes quality-control procedures for supplement manufacturing […]
In 2006, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the energy industry totaled $566 billion, up from $372 billion in 2005. Already, the value of deals announced this year has reached $356 billion. While the recent pace of transactions is reminiscent of the merger boom of the 1990s, current M&A activity is not dominated by the companies […]
Bio-Rad Laboratories released KnowItAll Enterprise Server 3.0 and the KnowItAll AnyWare 1.0 browser-based client. Bio-Rad launched KnowItAll U for academic research and teaching. Sapio Sciences introduced Exemplar LIMS, addressing the complete pipeline from sample receipt in the lab through clinical trial management. Labtronics released Nexxis CLA (Instrument Calibration Manager) 4.0. Strand Life Sciences released Sarchitect, […]
In June, Thermo Fisher Scientific announced the 300th order of the Thermo Scientific ARL 4460 optical emissions metals analyzer with SMS (Sample Manipulation System) 2000 automation. The order was placed by Tata Steel India and marks the analyzer’s first sale in India.
PerkinElmer launched four application-specific Biodiesel GC Turnkey Systems for verifying pure biodiesel. Phenomenex released the Zebron ZB-5HT Inferno GC column, calling it “the world’s first nonmetal 55% phenyl-dimethylspolysiloxange phase stable to 430º C.” Varian introduced the Select Biodiesel for Glycerides UltiMetal capillary GC column. Agilent released the GS-OxyPLOT (Porous Layer Open Tubular) capillary GC column […]
Core Informatics integrated ChemAxon’s chemoinformatics capabilities within its Core LIMS. Ariadne announced that GeneWorks will distribute its products in Australia and New Zealand. Validation company VALcoa entered into separate partnerships with Thermo Informatics and Labtronics. Thermo Fisher Scientific partnered with Integrador de Soluciones Tecnológicas to open a sales center for informatics solutions in Columbia and […]
Grace Davison Discovery Sciences released the VisionHT line of ultrahigh-pressure columns with a 12,000 psi pressure rating. They are compatible with all ultra high-pressure systems. Varian combined its Load & Lock column technology with the PLRP-S rigid polymeric reversed phase media from its Polymer Laboratories subsidiary for preparation and process chromatography. Varian introduced the VariPep […]
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