Company Announcements Takara Biotech opened a manufacturing facility for Clontech products in Dalian, China, earlier this year. LGC Standards will commercialize Abcellute’s hepatocyte preservation technology. Lentigen exclusively licensed fundamental lentiviral vector technology from the University of Cambridge. Invitrogen named Germany-based imaGenes as its European distributor for Gateway full ORF clones. Invitrogen was named the exclusive […]
Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) encompasses a broad suite of closely related techniques for imaging surfaces. In SPM, a probe with an ultrafine tip is brought very close to the surface under study. Depending on the nature of the tip and the particular mode being used, interactions between the surface and the tip lead to measurable […]
Sunnyvale, CA 6/27/08—MDS Analytical Technologies has acquired Blueshift Biotechnologies for $13 million. Located in Sunnyvale, California, Blueshift Biotechnologies is the maker of the IsoCyte benchtop laser-scanning cytometer for cellular screening. “This acquisition fills a gap in our current product portfolio, allowing us to offer our pharmaceutical research customers fast and simple cellular analysis with a […]
The markets tumbled in June as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and NASDAQ declined 10.2%, 8.6%, 9.1%, respectively. With rising inflation, record oil prices and a worsening credit markets, even the most optimistic Wall Street pundits dismissed any ideas about a quick recovery in the second half of the year. The high cost […]
The future of biotech remains strong although growth may be slowing. Sales of biotechnology drugs grew 12.5% to $75,120 million last year, according to IMS Health, compared to 18.2% growth in 2006. Targeted oncology therapies, auto-immune agents, anti-diabetic agents and pure vaccines made up the majority of the market, which consisted of 134 products in […]
Japan continues to reform its R&D spending, which is estimated at $168 billion per year. However, critics contend the system still does not sufficiently encourage entrepreneurial and academic investments. In response, the government plans to launch a $93 million venture fund to support new firms. Critics contend that the country has become too dependent on […]
From January to March, Germany’s Federal Ministry for Education and Research conducted a survey of 645 biotechnology companies. Revenues for the 496 “dedicated” biotech companies, defined as companies predominantly focused on biotech, increased 14% in 2007 to €2.1 billion ($2.9 billion), and R&D spending rose 8% to €1.05 billion. These companies have 14,360 employees in […]
Japanese drug maker Daiichi Sankyo’s announcement of its plan to acquire Indian generic drug company Ranbaxy Laboratories has observers speculating as to other possible acquisitions in the generic drug market. Such acquisitions would diversify large pharmaceutical firms’ product lines, would allow them to capitalize on government efforts to encourage generic drug usage and would enable […]
Singapore 5/30/08—Hong Kong-based Techcomp, a manufacturer and distributor of analytical instruments, and laboratory equipment firm Bibby Scientific have announced the formation of a fifty-fifty joint venture. Techcomp will manufacture products under Bibby’s brand names Jenway, Techne and Stuart for the local and export markets. The Hong Kong-based joint venture will also serve as Bibby’s distribution […]
Company Announcements SGE Analytical Science opened an office in Shanghai, China, in December 2007. In April, JEOL and JOEL Datum formed Datum Instruments, a new company for servicing JEOL’s environmental, metrology and inspection equipment, including benchtop MS, fluorescent x-ray analyzers, portable GCs and mobile scanning electron microscopes. In April, Sartorius Stedim Biotech opened a Technical […]
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