Billerica, MA 8/20/09—Bruker has announced that the Japan Patent Office has invalidated Digilab’s (Varian’s) Japanese Patent Number 3 076 013 on a Focal Plan Array-based imaging Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR) system. As a result, Bruker Optics Japan and other manufacturers can now sell imaging FT-IR spectrometers and FT-IR microscope systems with ATR imaging capabilities in […]
Compared to the first quarter of the calendar year, little changed in the second quarter for a number of major, publicly held analytical instrument and laboratory product companies. However, several companies indicated that they believed the worst effects of the recession were over. In fact, many companies reported sequential improvements in either orders or sales […]
India’s 2009–2010 budget, finalized on July 29, shows a continuing commitment to funding science and technology. The country’s Ministry of Science and Technology, which is in charge of much of the government’s R&D spending, received a 13.6% budget increase to INR 4125 crore ($843.6 million). In addition, infrastructure spending by the Ministry of Chemicals and […]
Company Announcements Park Systems appointed Techcomp as its exclusive Chinese distributor. Masscal Scientific Instruments and NanoSpective announced a collaborative partnership in April. JPK Instruments AG named Bucher Biotec AG as its exclusive representatives in Switzerland. JPK Instruments AG opened a Japanese office in July. In May, Leica Microsystems GmbH licensed four patents named to Dr. […]
Company Announcements Novus Biologicals opened its first international office in Cambridge, UK, this spring. Between 15% and 20% of the company’s business is generated in Europe. In May, Jerini AG agreed to sell JPT Peptide Technologies GmbH to TheraCode GmbH, a subsidiary of BioNTech AG, for €5 million ($7 million) in cash. Under a May […]
Company Announcements PerkinElmer and Accelrys integrated their respective Columbus image data management system for high-content screening (HCS) and Pipeline Pilot data analysis and reporting platform. GE Healthcare agreed in April to commercialize Cytori Therapeutics’ StemSource technology in the North American stem cell banking and research markets. The technology includes automated equipment to process stem and […]
Company Announcements Overbrook Scientific agreed to distribute Phytronix Technologies’ Laser Diode Thermal Desorption ionization technology in the US. In May, Bruker announced that its MALDI Biotyper workflow for microbial identification in clinical microbiology obtained the IVD-CE Mark. Bruker also formed US collaborations for the clinical validation of the workflow for micro-organism identification. Bruker Daltonik GmbH […]
Gold Award Veritide’s Ceeker is the recipient of this year’s IBO Gold Design Award for portable instrumentation. The optical-based spore detection system was built with the New Zealand industrial design firm 4ormfunction. It weighs 2.1 kg (4.6 lb), measures 25 x 13 x 26.5 cm (10 x 5.25 x 10.5 in) and costs around $25,000. […]
Gold Award IBO’s 2009 Gold Design Award winner for lab equipment is Genevac’s Rocket. Eschewing a boxy exterior for smooth curves, the centrifugal evaporator’s coiled form lends it a futuristic look. The originality of the system’s design matches its technical novelty. The Rocket is the company’s first centrifugal evaporator that features a low-temperature, low-pressure steam-heating […]
The European Commission has awarded €610 million ($858 million) in funding in response to the third call for the Seventh Framework Program for Research’s Heath Program. Of the 679 proposals submitted, 106 consortia projects were chosen. These projects were grouped into four categories: 10 projects for “biotechnology, generic tools and medical technologies for human health” […]
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