Pfizer announced that it will spend $300 million on R&D in South Korea by 2012. An initial agreement between South Korea’s Ministry of Health and Welfare and Pfizer for the development of drugs and medical technology was signed on June 13. According to the South Korean government, this is the largest R&D investment by a […]
HunterLab launched the UltraScan VIS spectrophotometer for measurement of both reflected and transmitted color and transmission haze. HiperScan GmbH introduced the SGS1900 NIR, featuring new scanning grating technology. Analytical Spectral Devices released the TerraSpec portable mineral spectrometer. PerkinElmer introduced the Spectrum 400 IR spectrometer, which can automatically switch between NIR and MIR measurement modes and […]
Although the range of new product introductions at this year’s ASMS meeting did not match the scale or scope of last year, there were still a number of significantly new mass spectrometers and related products that will no doubt have a major impact on the mass spectrometry market. The most common theme among these new […]
AVISO GmbH appointed Analytik Jena AG a distributor of its CellCelector system. Harvard Bioscience entered into a comarketing and codevelopment agreement with Nanoentek, giving BTX Harvard Apparatus exclusive distribution of Digital Bio’s Microporator gene delivery system in the US and giving Digital Bio exclusive distribution of BTX’s electroporation products in selected Asian nations. Advalytix, a […]
In 2006, global sales in the cosmetics and toiletries sector grew 10% to more than $253 billion, according to Euromonitor International. The potential for profit in this sector has drawn biotech startup companies as well as major cosmetics firms to manufacture cosmetics with purported pharmaceutical effects, commonly called cosmeceuticals. Biotech startups are drawn to the […]
Konica Minolta Sensing appointed Metalinspec and Equipar as Mexican distributors. Metrolab was appointed a technical support provider for Mexico. Perten Instruments AB named Newport Scientific an exclusive distributor for North America effective April 1. Perten will exclusively distribute Newport Scientific’s products in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway beginning this month. Perten will integrate CAMO Software’s […]
Cyntellect received a $1.3 million Phase II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant to continue development of its LEAP system for automated purification and the cloning of cells based on specific secretion of native or recombinant proteins. Fluxion Biosciences received a $1.2 million Phase II SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health for the […]
Nanion Technologies introduced the Internal Perfusion System for its Port-a-Patch patch clamp workstation, enabling the investigation of substances affecting a cell from the inside. Invitrogen and ScienceXperts released the free CytoGenie software tool, which simplifies the design of flow cytometry experiments. Tecan and amaxa introduced an automated system for high-throughput transfection of primary cells, consisting […]
The 55th American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics took place at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana from June 3 to 7. Just a week earlier, Indianapolis was the sight of the famous Indianapolis 500 race, but for MS enthusiasts, this was the week to be in […]
IBO has selected LECO’s new TruTOF HT as the best new product from this year’s ASMS meeting in Indianapolis. Although the aesthetics of this new GC-TOF mass spectrometer are quite subdued, everything else about the new system is to the contrary. For starters, the system is a benchtop design, comparable in size to the only […]
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