Billerica, MA 11/23/09—Millipore has acquired the remaining 60% ownership of its joint venture in India. Based in Bangalore, Millipore India is primarily a sales, service and manufacturing organization with approximately 300 employees. “By establishing direct operations in the country, we will be able to more effectively execute our strategy and leverage our unique capabilities to […]
Enschede, The Netherlands 11/16/09—Concept to Volume BV (C2V) has announced its acquisition by Thermo Fisher Scientific. C2V’s micro-GC products and customized MEMS (microelectric mechanical system) solution, which features an integrated micro chip technology with narrow bore capillary GC columns (see IBO 3/15/08). The products will be sold under the Thermo Scientific brand. “The acquisition is […]
Santa Clara, CA 11/16/09—Agilent Technologies has acquired MassCode technology from Eurofins MWG Group for an undisclosed amount. MassCode Tags are small molecules with unique molecular weights that are used to screen for specific pathogens. Tags are attached to DNA primers corresponding to microbial sequences. The primers are used to amplify nucleic acid using PCR. The […]
Sequential improvements in quarterly revenue growth provided some good news for major, publicly held analytical and life science instrument and laboratory product companies in the calendar-year third quarter. But despite the trend, revenues were down year over year for seven of the nine companies whose results are presented in the table on page 10. Fourth-quarter […]
R&D investments by 2,000 of the world’s largest companies grew 6.9% in aggregate in fiscal 2008, compared to 9.0% growth in fiscal 2008, according to the European Commission’s “2009 EU Industrial R&D Scoreboard.” The Scoreboard tracks R&D spending by 1,000 EU and 1,000 non-EU firms. The economic downturn’s effect on these industrial sectors is not […]
Glow Discharge Spectroscopy (GDS) is a spectroscopic technique designed for use with solid samples, primarily metals. One advantage of GDS is that it enables depth profiling of a sample. In a GDS system, a solid sample absorbs energy from a plasma of argon ions, causing atom to sputter from the sample’s surface. As the electrons […]
Company Announcements In September, Denator AB announced an exclusive distribution agreement for the UK and Ireland with Scientific & Medical Products for its Stabilizor T1 system. Life Technologies and febit holding GmbH entered into a strategic comarketing agreement for re-sequencing studies for their respective SOLiD next-generation sequencing system and HybSelect Sequence Capture solution. Febit also […]
Company Announcements RiNA GmbH acquired the RTS Protein Expression portfolio of cell-free expression kits from Roche Applied Science in September. 5PRIME will assume responsibility for sales, support and distribution. New England Peptide opened a West Coast development office in San Francisco, California, in September. Sigma-Aldrich will distribute BioLife Solutions’ HypoTermosol and CryoStor biopreservation media products. […]
Company Announcements Thermo Fisher Scientific is collaborating with the integrative network biology initiative at The Institute of Cancer Research in the UK. Bruker Daltonics and the Mass Spectrometry Research Laboratory of Professor Catherine Costello at the Boston University School of Medicine are collaborating on the application of ion trap MS and FT-MS to glycomics and […]
Sample introduction is an important step in the use of inductively coupled plasma (ICP) spectroscopy, as only a sample which has been broken down into a fine aerosol can be properly introduced into an ICP’s plasma discharge. ICP sample introduction has also been the source of much success for CETAC Technologies. The company was founded […]
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