Company Announcements MetaSystems and Xenometrix partnered to comarket their respective Metafer image analysis system and Ames mutagenicity assays. DV Biologics named Cambridge Bioscience as a European distributor. Golub Capital provided Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) with $12.0 million of senior subordinated debt in April. Cellular Dynamics International closed a $40.6 million Series B private equity round […]
Company Announcements BioTek Instruments and Global Cell Solutions announced a formal collaboration. BIOCIUS Life Sciences named Wako Pure Chemical Industries its exclusive distributor for Japan. BIOCIUS opened a European office near Geneva, Switzerland, in May and extended its reseller agreements with AB Sciex and Agilent to include Europe. Tecan became ForteBio’s preferred automation partner for […]
Founded in 1999 by former employees of Digital Instruments, Asylum Research is today an employee-owned, self-funded provider of atomic force microscopes (AFM). The company has grown from a six-employee firm with one product to the 65-employee operation it is today. The company develops the technology of their AFM systems in house and was the first […]
Company Announcements In March, Roche NimbleGen named Frank Pitzer, PhD, CEO. He was most recently head of Divisional Quality and Regulatory Affairs at Roche Diagnostics. Roche Diagnostics purchased in March assets from BioMicro Systems for all products associated with the Roche NimbleGen microarray workflow, including the NimbleGen Hybridization Systems. Roche NimbleGen named imaGenes GmbH a […]
Company Announcements In April, FOSS NIRSystems named Pharma Test Apparatebau AG as a distributor for Germany and Austria. ASD reported 2009 revenues of $12 million. T-Ray Science granted a technology license for its terahertz-imaging technology to Toptica Photonics. WITec GmbH announced in May the opening of a new regional headquarters in Singapore. Product Introductions PG […]
South Korea’s 30 largest corporations plan to make environmental investments of KRW 22.4 trillion ($18.61 billion) from 2011 to 2013, a 48% increase from the prior four-year period. The government will increase a KRW 105 billion fund to promote environmental investments by small- and medium-sized businesses to KRW 1.1 trillion by 2013. Source: Reuters
Japan’s share of scientific publications tumbled from 9% in 2000 to 7% in 2009, in line with other major mature economies. However, the Japan’s “citation impact,” which compares a country’s average citations per paper against a baseline world average, has declined compared to similar economies. The decline is partly attributed to a lower number of […]
Sales for the largest 100 Chinese pharmaceutical firms increased 25.1% last year to $50.22 million to represent 42% of industry sales, according to the Southern Medicine Economic Research Institute, part of the State Food and Drug Administration. Total revenues for China’s pharmaceutical industry rose 20.8%. The top three drug companies were Harbin Pharmaceutical Group, Shijiazhuanh […]
At the request of the European Parliament, the European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC) has prepared a report assessing the challenges of creating a science-based definition of “nanomaterials” for regulatory purposes. The JRC recommends that the definition apply only to “particulate nanomaterials” and that size, not properties, be the defining property. For the definition, a […]
Although estimated to be worth $10 billion by 2015, the biosimilars market will be challenging and thus is attracting only large companies and specialist providers. Development of biosimilars takes up to eight years at a cost of $100–$150 million. But prices are only expected to be 20%–30% lower than biologics. Multiple patent challenges are expected […]
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