Hopkinton, MA 10/29/07; Washington, DC 10/30/08—Caliper Life Sciences has agreed to sell its Pharmaceutical Development & Quality Analysis (PDQ) product line to SOTAX for approximately $13.8 million in cash and $2 million of assumed liabilities. The PDQ line consists of the TPW3 tablet processing workstation, the APW3 active ingredient processing workstation, the MultiDose G3 dissolution […]
As the world economic community grapples with a financial crisis that has shattered the US and European banking industries, constrained credit and unnerved stock markets, business sentiment has plummeted. Despite governmental intervention to shore up liquidity, uncertainty and dread continue to dominate the economic outlook. The fall 2008 IBO Business Climate Survey finds the six-month […]
A recent report prepared by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the FDA’s monitoring of fresh produce is deficient. In fiscal 2007, the FDA spent a minimum of $20.2 million, approximately 3% of its food safety expenditures, on fresh produce oversight. The FDA’s Office of Regulatory Affairs accounted for 82% of this spending, […]
French biotechnology companies have 73 products in early-stage development and 98 drugs in clinical development, according to France Biotech. Ten drugs are awaiting market approval and four are on the market. Despite economic conditions and a weak IPO market, France Biotech expects French biotech firms to be able to obtain funding through alliances or mergers […]
Company Announcements Picarro named Iain Green director of Marketing in June. He was previously senior marketing manager of NMR products for Varian. Picarro also appointed Mark Davis as vice president of Sales. He was previously director of US Sales for Hach. Picarro named new two distributors: Sanyo Trading for Japan and KNJ Engineering for South […]
Hollywood, FL 10/6/08—STARLIMS Technologies, a provider of laboratory information management systems (LIMS), has announced that it expects third-quarter revenues of $5 million and GAAP EPS of $(0.03)–$0.01. This compares to third-quarter 2007 sales of $6.2 million and GAAP EPS of $0.18. “Our business in the third quarter was impacted by increased tightening of IT budgets […]
Company Announcements Intellection appointed Beamtech Nordiska AB as its exclusive distributor for Sweden, Scandinavia and the Baltic States. Leica Microsystems CMS GmbH named Dr. Stefan Traeger managing director in June. Leica Microsystems CMS GmbH’s Life Science reorganized into three strategic business units in June: Life Science Research, Clinical Imaging and Nanotechnology. FEI will market and […]
Electrofusion, also known as cell-cell electrofusion or electrically mediated cell-cell fusion, is the fusion of two cells, mediated by electrical stimulation. Dr. Mitsugi Senda first reported this technique in 1979 when he fused two plant protoplasts by using capillary microelectrodes and applying electric current. In 1981, Dr. Ulrich Zimmerman built upon Dr. Senda’s study and […]
West Chester, PA 10/2/08—VWR International has acquired OMNILAB AG, a laboratory supply distributor based in Mettmenstetten, Switzerland. Founded in 1990, OMNILAB distributes chromatography, spectroscopy and labware products.
Company Announcements SPECTRO Analytical Instruments opened a laboratory and sales, service and marketing office in Tokyo, Japan, in May. The facility is jointly operated with EDAX. SPECTRO has an installed base in Japan of more than 700 systems. AMETEK opened an office in Vällingby, Sweden, in June, that will initially provide sales, service and technical […]
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