The American Society for Cell Biology held its 49th annual meeting from December 5 to 9, 2009. Despite rather miserable weather, the show drew about 9,000 people to the San Diego Convention Center in California. It featured a solid technical program, which included over 100 oral presentations and more than 3,500 poster sessions. In addition, […]
Japan’s new administration has slashed the science and technology-related spending (S&T funding) in the country’s 2009 Economic Stimulus Packaging by 29.8% to ¥944.6 billion ($9.4 billion). Stimulus-related S&T funding for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology now stands at ¥443.2 billion, down from the supplemental budget’s original amount of ¥656.2 billion. Stimulus-related […]
Company Announcements INTAVIS AG acquired the peptide synthesis unit of NMI Technologietransfer GmbH. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals granted KOKEN a license to manufacture and provide RNAi research products and services under the Kreutzer-Limmer patent family. ZyGEM named VERITAS Japan as its exclusive Japenese distributor. ZenBio agreed to distribute CELLnTEC Advanced Cell Systems’ epithelial progenitor cell–targeted in vitro […]
Germany’s chemical industry suffered one of its worst years ever in 2009, according to the German chemical industry association (VCI). Sales are estimated to have declined 12.5% in 2009 to €154.4 billion ($222.1 billion), as foreign sales fell 12.0% to €85.4 billion and domestic sales were down 13.5%. Production of basic chemicals fell 16% and […]
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced the “big loan” program, a €35 billion ($56.8 billion) effort to increase the country’s competitiveness. French universities will receive €11 billion in funding: €7.7 billion will go toward creating between five and ten “campuses of excellence,” €1.3 billion will be used for campus refurbishment, €1 billion will be put […]
The US EPA’s formal notification that greenhouse gases endanger public health will take effect next month. The first proposed rule related to the finding is expected by March and would set standards for tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases. Such standards, which are expected to be challenged in court, would also result in the requirement that […]
According to a report from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, chemical companies’ profits will continue to fall unless new approaches are adopted. The report is based on the analysis of 1998–2008 financial results for 231 publicly held chemical firms. Gross margins for 35 commodity-chemical providers declined from 28% in 1998 to 16.5% in 2007. Commodity-chemical suppliers are […]
Global R&D spending is expected to grow 4.0% in 2010 to $1,156.5 billion, following a 1.0% decline in 2009, according to Battelle and R&D Magazine. China’s R&D spending rose 21.0% to account for 11.1% of worldwide R&D spending in 2009, while R&D expenditures in India increased 5.2% to account for 2.5%. R&D spending in Asia […]
Sydney, Australia 12/9/09—NuSep, a publicly-listed maker of pre-casts gels and systems for bioseparations, has signed a letter of intent to acquire BioInquire, the developer of the ProteoIQ software for MS data analysis. BioInquire projects a profit of $1.2 million for 2010. The purchase price consists of an initial payment of $1.5 million; a $1 million […]
Belfast, Northern Ireland 12/23/09—Andor Technology, a developer of digital cameras, has acquired Bitplane AG for £7.46 million ($11.95 million) in cash and the issue of 285,851 shares at the price of 2 pence each ($0.03). Based in Zurich, Switzerland, Bitplane develops microscopy image analysis software for medical and life science applications. In 2008, Bitplane had […]
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