Company Announcements Waters announced in January it made a $6 million payment for damages and fees, following a French appeals court’s upholding of a ruling that the company had infringed a patent held by Agilent Technologies GmbH. Waters is appealing the decision. Tosoh Bioscience NV, the Belgium-based European sales and distribution arm of Tosoh Bioscience, […]
Two companies in IBO’s Laboratory Instrument Sales Index reported fiscal year-end March 31 results after the publication of the 2008 and first-quarter Index numbers (see IBO 2/15/09, 4/30/09, 5/15/09). Including year-end results for Shimadzu and Oxford Instruments (Analytical), Index revenues rose 12.1% in 2008 and operating profits increased 14.5%. For the first quarter, Index sales […]
The latest proposed amendments to China’s law on the environment management of chemical substances has been released. Eco-toxicological testing of new chemical substances would be required, even if the products have passed similar tests in other regions, and would have to be conducted at Chinese labs. Notification procedures would be simplified for chemicals manufactured or […]
A total of 43 university projects have been recommended to receive SEK 5,270 million ($661 million) in special funding from 2009 to 2012. The grants will be managed by one of four agencies: the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Energy Agency, Vinnova or Formas. Grants will total up to SEK 1,315 million per year The […]
South Korea plans to spend WON 155 billion ($121 million) to fund 26 short-term, green projects in eight fields (biopharmacy, robotic applications, renewable desalination plants, LED applications, system semiconductors, next generation displays, green cars, clean briquette energy). There are seven projects for LED applications, five green car projects, four biopharmacy projects and four semiconductor projects. […]
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft , a publicly supported research organization, plans to invest €2.7 billion ($3.8 billion) in the second round of the Exzellenzinitiative. The Exzellenzinitiative, which provides additional funding to the country’s top research universities, awarded €1.9 billion in its first round. Second-round of funding is estimated to rise by 30%. The first call for […]
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) released its new guidelines for stem cell research earlier this month. The guidelines make available more than 700 stem cell lines for research, compared to the 20 lines previously available. In 2008, $88 million of the NIH’s $938 million budget for stem cell research went to research using human […]
A ruling in late June by the US Supreme Court is expected to result in more crime lab analysts having to testify at trial. In a 5-to-4 decision, the Court ruled that the confrontation clause of the US Constitution’s Sixth Amendment entitles criminal defendants to confront witnesses against them. As a result, lab analysts may […]
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) estimates that the chemical industry’s downturn is moderating. The ACC forecasts worldwide chemical output to fall 6.3% this year, before increasing 2.8% in 2010 and 4.0% in 2011. By geographic region, Africa and the Middle East are expected to be the strongest in 2009, with output declining only 1.4%. In […]
More than 30 standards were adopted by the Codes Alimentarius Commission (Codex) at its meeting this month. Established by the United Nations and World Health Organization, Codex develops global food standards. The new standards include guidance addressing acrylamide formation in potato products and the contamination of coffee by Ochratoxin A, a fungal toxin. The first […]
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