Company Announcements Invitrogen and PamGene will co-market Invitrogen’s Nuclear Hormone Receptor proteins and Lanthascreen assay technology with PamGene’s PamChip and PamStation Nuclear Hormone Receptor screening tools. Clinical Data and Affymetrix entered into a marketing agreement for a new drug metabolism service. Source BioScience will exclusively distribute Empire Genomics’ ACCUarray CGH genotyping technology in the UK. […]
Japan: Japan’s recent experience, in which Chinese-manufactured, pesticide-laden gyoza poisoned 10 citizens, has prompted the government to restructure the inspection and labeling of imported and processed foods. Food inspection will now include tests for agricultural chemical residues, specifically organophosphorous pesticides. Such testing may prove difficult as Japan currently does not specify maximum residue limits for […]
Odense, Denmark 4/28/08; Palo Alto, CA 4/28/08—Proxeon A/S has entered into an OEM agreement to provide its nanoscale Easy-nLC system to Varian for interface with Varian’s 920-MS Fourier Transform triple quadrupole MS. The Easy-nLC will be sold as the Varian 216-LC. “The performance of LC/MS configurations has become increasingly significant in the proteomics market,” stated […]
Metals: In 2007, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the metals industry increased 67% to $144.7 billion. Aluminum deals represented 56 of the year’s 411 disclosed transactions and amounted to $77.3 billion, almost four times the $21.3 billion spent on aluminum deals between 2003 and 2006. This increase was primarily due to Rio Tinto’s $38.1 […]
South San Francisco, CA 4/16/08—Fluidigm, which develops, manufactures and sells Integrated Fluidic Circuit systems (IFCs) for life science research, has filed for an IPO on the NASDAQ stock exchange. The number of shares to be offered and the price have not yet been determined. According to the filing, in 2007, Fluidigm’s revenues increased 19.9% to […]
In the first of IBO’s twice yearly look at new labs, IBO covers new laboratory construction in China and Singapore, along with new laboratories in the nanotechnology sector, particularly on US college campuses. IBO’s report ends with a look at oil money’s advancement of new laboratory construction in the Middle East. Foreign multinational investment in […]
Company Announcements The Fraunhofer IBMT will develop new, customized applications for Magritek’s Kea NMR Mole System and will provide technical support for them in Europe. The companies will also work together on future developments of the system. Product Introductions Chenomx released Chenomx NMR Suite 5.0, a set of integrated software applications for performing NMR-based metabolomics. […]
Agriculture: Across the globe, governments and biotech companies are attempting to reconcile food shortages and increasing food prices with strict regulations on genetically modified (GM) crops. In a recent move, food manufacturers in Japan and Korea have abandoned their adherence to unmodified corn, which has increased three times in price from 2006, for its GM […]
Company Announcements In 2007, ThalesNano opened a UK subsidiary and signed distribution agreement for Scandinavia, Italy and India. ThalesNano announced a collaboration for flow/microwave chemistry research with the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Microwave Chemistry at Karl Franzens University in Austria and with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. PolyGen named Blue Lion Biotech its […]
As the largest market for particle size and distribution analysis, the pharmaceutical industry accounted for approximately 15% of the sales of instruments and aftermarket products last year. Particle size is a crucial metric for the design, quality control and manufacturing of pharmaceuticals. In developing new drugs, researchers are increasingly exploring the use of nano-sized particles […]
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