Company Announcements Olink AB in partnership with scientists from Uppsala University formed Q-linea AB to develop biosensors for the detection of biological warfare agents. Diversified Opportunities, an over-the-counter listed, shell company, acquired QRSciences’ US subsidiary and the electronic imaging firm Spectrum San Diego, which was partially owned by QRSciences. QRSciences agreed to distribute GE Security’s […]
Marlborough, MA 1/26/09; San Diego, CA and Ann Arbor, MI 1/26/09; San Diego, CA 1/27/08; San Diego, CA 1/28/09—Sequenom has terminated its bid for diagnostics firm EXACT Sciences (see IBO 1/15/09), following Genzyme’s acquisition of certain intellectual property assets held by EXACT related to the fields of prenatal and reproductive health and three million shares […]
Two new websites were recently launched for the lab automation community. The Association for Laboratory Automation‘s LabAutopedia site at www.labautomation.org/labautopedia is a free source of reference information and articles in a “wiki” format, which allows contributions from users. ARTEL launched www.LHTalk.org, a noncommercial site, featuring forums and blogs focused on small-volume liquid handling.
Quest Diagnostics admitted in early January that thousands of its vitamin D tests conducted over the last two years were incorrect. In a letter to doctors, Quest said the test has now been fixed and offered free retests. Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to several diseases, and test volumes have doubled on an annual […]
Company Announcements Empire Genomics will develop locus-specific DNA probes for One Cell Systems for slide-based FISH applications. Empire will also comarket One Cell’s synthetic oligonucleotide probes for chromosome enumeration. In November 2008, QIAGEN licensed certain methylation technologies from OncoMethylome Sciences for use in its EpiTect product line. Five new members joined the RNAi Global Initiative, […]
Company Announcements In a management buyout, Harvard Bioscience sold its Union Biometrica division, the remaining portion of its Capital Equipment business, in October 2008 for $1 in cash, the assumption of certain liabilities and an earn-out. Harvard Bioscience named Thomas McNaughton, most recently CFO of Tivoli Audio, CFO in November 2008. Jock Fyfe Lennox, senior […]
As one of the first instrument shows to test the trade show environment in a new year and an increasingly uncertain economy, LabAutomation2009 showed that optimism about the instrument market remains intact. The annual conference and exhibit that showcases laboratory automation systems and associated products took place January 24–28 in Palm Springs, California. Attendance was […]
Product Introductions Horiba launched the waterproof Multi Water Quality Checker U-50 Series for on-site measurement of up to 11 water-quality parameters in environmental waters. WTW GmbH released the handheld single-parameter ProfLine Series for pH, conductivity and dissolved oxygen (DO) measurements, consisting of three new product families: the 3110 series, 3210 series and 3310 series. YSI […]
The US Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) has delayed by one year the enforcement of certain requirements of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), which were to take effect on February 10. The CPSIA implements new certification and testing requirements for products, including toys and other products for children under 12. The limits on […]
The FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research approved 21 new molecular entities (NMEs) in 2008, up from 16 the year before. Three biologic license applications (BLAs) were approved, compared to two in 2007. Three of the NMEs and one of the BLAs were delayed approvals. The drugs with the fastest approval times tend to […]
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