Company Announcements Process Analysis and Automation and Matrical announced a strategic partnership. Tecan and innovates are jointly marketing their respective Freedom EVO cell culture workstations and Cellavista cell detection devices. Tecan expanded its collaboration with pION to include solutions for drug permeability and solubility screening. MDS Analytical Technologies’ SpectraMax L microplate luminometers received Dual-Luciferase Reporter […]
Man-Tech Associates, an early developer of automated titration systems, was founded in 1995 and is part of a group of companies that includes Man-Sci and Mandel Scientific. Total group revenues are around $20 million and the group has 80 employees. Man-Tech began as a venture to develop and commercialize software and robotics for titration. According […]
Company Announcements ZyGEM signed exclusive distribution agreements with Shanghai Sangon Biological Engineering Technology & Services for China and SolGent for South Korea. The company also agreed to codistribute products from Integrated DNA Technologies, Quanta Biosciences, Biometrica and Porvair Services in New Zealand and certain parts of Australia. Rubicon Genomics incorporated ZyGEM’s enzymatic nucleic acid extraction […]
Company Announcements Under a resale agreement announced in June, LEAP Technologies will be able to incorporate PerkinElmer’s UHPLC and HPLC technology into front-end automation systems for MS within the US and Canada. In July, Eksigent Technologies announced plans to increase its manufacturing capacity by 40%. In August, W. R. Grace & Co.’s Grace Davis Discovery […]
Scheduled to take effect in October, China’s latest revisions to its intellectual property laws will affect foreign and domestic drug makers. The new “standard for novelty” principle requires that a patent be issued if the invention is truly new, not just new to China. The revisions also eliminate the requirement that patents on Chinese inventions […]
The Indian government plans to increase its oversight of environmental issues, including the protection of natural resources. Jairam Ramesh, the country’s environmental minister, stated that India will set up an environmental protection agency based on the US’s EPA to enforce environmental regulations. The establishment of so-called civil “green courts” to alleviate the backlog of environmental […]
In 2007, R&D spending by the EU27 totaled €229 billion ($314 billion), and was flat at 1.85% of GDP. Germany (€62 billion), France (€39 billion) and the United Kingdom (€37 billion) accounted for 60% of R&D expenditures. The highest R&D intensities (R&D as a percentage of GDP) were recorded by Sweden (3.60%), Finland (3.47%) and […]
HSBC estimates that $512 million in worldwide stimulus funding will go toward green projects. In 2009, 22% of this funding is expected to be spent. South Korea has committed the largest share of its economic stimulus plan, 79%, to green projects, with major programs for job creation and clean technology. The EU has pledged a […]
R&D spending in Sweden by business rose an estimated 4.2% in 2008 to SEK 87,681 million ($12,498 million) in constant prices. Within the business sector, R&D investments by producers of goods accounted for 75% of spending compared to 25% for the service sector. R&D spending by the higher education sector (excluding ALF funds) also increased, […]
A new report from the European Commission’s Joint Research Center estimates that the number of genetically modified (GM) crops will reach 124 by 2015, compared to 33 in 2008, and will include GM rice and potato, which are not currently commercialized. GM cotton will account for the largest number of GM crops in 2015, with […]
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