Company Announcements In August, Quanterix and STRATEC Biomedical agreed to codevelop and manufacture an automated instrument for Quanterix’s Single Molecular Array technology for use in the life science and in vitro diagnostic (IVD) markets. The life science system is expected to launch in 2013, and the IVD system is expected to launch in 2014. STRATEC […]
Company Announcements Seahorse Bioscience appointed In Vitro Technologies as a distributor for Australia and New Zealand and Research Instruments as a distributor for Southeast Asia. IntelliCyt named five new European distributors: Bucher Biotec for Switzerland; Westburg for Benelux and Scandinavia; Grupo Taper for Spain and Portugal; Labtech France; and BioTech for the Czech Republic, Hungary, […]
Company Announcements For the fiscal year ending March 31, sales for Takara Bio’s Genetic Engineering Research unit fell 4.8% to ¥15,882 million ($185 million) (see IBO 9/30/11). Sales of research reagents and contract research services were each unchanged. Scientific instrument sales declined significantly due to last year’s demand from public agencies. The unit aims for […]
Brazil’s government announced in September that the budget for its science ministry has been slashed 8% to BRL 5.7 billion ($3.0 billion) for 2011. The cut comes after last year’s record budget of $3.3 billion and reflects general spending cuts announced earlier this year. When Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff succeeded Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva […]
Russia is aiming to entice foreign researchers with grants of RUB 150 million ($5 million) each, but some critics believe bureaucratic obstacles may hinder the effort. The Education and Science Ministry began offering the grants in April 2010 to try to lure scientists back to Russia after the 1990s, when insufficient salaries and research support […]
Agricultural R&D is increasing after years of stagnation. As the price of food, measured in real terms, fell over the last 20 years, so did R&D investment. However, demand increased, leading to lower productivity. R&D is critical to address the growing scarcity of water, soil and other natural resources. DNA sequencing and bioinformatics are among […]
A project announced last month called FairGen could lead to the Faroe Islands being the first place in the world to sequence the genomes of its 50,000 residents. Already in effect in the self-governing Danish territory is a pilot project to sequence the genomes of 100 people. If the approximate $50 million cost of FairGen […]
Global semiconductor capital equipment spending should reach $43.5 billion in 2011, a 7.1% increase from 2010, but will stall for the rest of this year and into next, dropping 19.2% to $35.2 billion in 2012. Gartner predicts that the capital spending decline will be due to too much electronics inventory and weak demand because of […]
In September, the FDA provided Congress with its mandated report on the Food Emergency Response Network (FERN). The FDA said FERN will help it adhere to lab-related specifications in the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). FERN unites US federal, state and local food-testing labs into a network able to handle food contamination emergencies. FERN manages […]
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2011 was published in September. The report examined R&D trends over the last ten years. One trend noted by the report was that in 2009 the business sector accounted for the majority of R&D expenditures, measured as a percentage of GERD (gross […]
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