New York, NY 3/12/09—Enzo Biochem has acquired substantially all of the assets of Assay Designs for $12.2 million in cash. Assay Designs provides kits and reagents for the detection and quantification of small molecules and proteins that are important in inflammation and immunity, oxidative and cellular stress, steroid and hormone biology, cell signaling, and bioenergetics. […]
Company Announcements Hamilton Sundstrand Applied Instrument Technologies established a sales and marketing office in Moscow, Russia, in November 2008. Emerson Process Management opened a 12,500-square-meter Asia Flow Technology Center in Nanjing, China, in November 2008 for flow metering and measurement. Yokogawa opened a sales and service office in Dublin, Ireland, in December 2008. Process control […]
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has reduced its forecast for US chemical output in 2009. In December 2008, the ACC predicted a 3.1% decline, excluding pharmaceutical chemicals, which has now been revised downward to an 8.7% decrease. Total US chemical production is expected to decline 5.7% in 2009, after falling 3.5% last year. US production […]
LabKey Software approaches instrument data storage, sharing and analysis by way of web-based remote access. The company was formed in 2005 through a partnership between software developers and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), after the FHCRC decided to develop a way to store and share large volumes of instrument data based on an […]
Company Announcements Dionex acquired Caliper Life Sciences’ AutoTrace Solid Phase Extraction Workstation product line for in November 2008 for $5 million. AutoTrace had 2007 sales of $3.1 million. Asemblon, a provider of self-assembled monolayer chemistries, signed an international distribution agreement with VWR International in January. Pamela Forbes Lieberman joined VWR International’s Board in January. She […]
Chicago, IL 3/9/09—Bruker BioSpin has acquired PERCH Solutions, a provider of NMR software for proton NMR prediction, spectral analysis and molecular modeling. Established in 2002 and based in Kuopio, Finland, PERCH software is part of several Bruker BioSpin NMR software products. “Many of PERCH’s market segments and applications overlap with those of our NMR small […]
According to China’s Vice Heath Minister Chen Wenjun, the nine departments cooperating under China’s newly approved Food Safety Law will be headed by the Health Ministry (HM). In addition to coordinating the activities of the nine departments, the HM will deal with food safety emergencies, including food safety monitoring and evaluation. Food manufacturers will be […]
Every year, IBO selects the top three new products at Pittcon. A new product is defined as one introduced late last year or in 2009. The top new products are selected based on technological advancement, potential for commercial success and innovation. This year, two products gained notice due to their technical capabilities. Bruker BioSpin’s DNP-NMR […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker AXS unveiled the D2 Phaser, which puts desktop X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis into a smaller, lower-power package. With a fast detector, the powder diffraction system will be priced at $95,000; a simpler detector brings the price down to $70,000. The system will be available in three months. Innov-X has begun exclusive distribution […]
According to a survey by the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008, R&D spending in Japan grew 2.6% to ¥18,943.8 billion ($164.7 billion). Respondents consisted of 10,488 companies, 1,200 nonprofits and 3,500 universities. Companies, nonprofits and universities accounted for 73%, 8.9% and 18.1% of R&D spending, […]
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