Company Announcements In its fiscal second-quarter 2012 conference call, Becton Dickinson said that it paid $205 million to buy Accuri Cytometers (see IBO 2/15/11). Accuri is expected to contribute approximately one percentage point to BD Biosciences revenue in fiscal 2012 and approximately one to two percentage points annually over the next three years. In March, […]
Company Announcements Hamilton acquired Inline Messtechnik, its former German distributor for process products, in December 2010. In February, Modern Water acquired Cogent Environmental, a provider of portable and on-line water-monitoring products, from Sultan Scientific. Modern Water also established a new division, MW Monitoring. Environics Oy and IUT Institut fuer Umwelttechnologien formed Environics-IUT GmbH, a joint […]
Two of the largest Japanese suppliers of analytical instruments, Shimadzu and Hitachi High-Technologies, each recently reported their fiscal 2011 results for the year ending March 31. In addition, both companies reported a return to mostly normalized operations following March’s earthquake and tsunami. The companies reported growth for their analytical instrument businesses after declining sales in […]
Based on an analysis of data from the Chinese State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) and the Center for Drug Evaluation of the SFDA, it is estimated that approximately 25 “new drugs” entered clinical trials between 2003 and 2010. For purposes of the study, “new drugs” were defined as class 1.1 and 1.2 chemical drugs […]
Even though the Indian government has attempted throughout the past decade to boost the country’s presence in biopharma, it must adopt a strategy to increase that presence, according to the Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) recent report, “Life Sciences R&D: Changing the Innovation Equation in India.” The report collected data from interviews and a survey sent […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has named Hong Kong a Collaborating Center for Risk Analysis of Chemicals in Food, a title valid for four years starting in October 2010. The designation is a nod to Hong Kong’s successful food safety measures, including its Center of Food Safety (CFS), which sets food standards and food safety […]
US import lines of FDA-regulated products grew annually by 13%, from 7.9 million in 2002 to 18.5 million in 2009, according to the FDA’s “Pathway to Global Product Safety and Quality” report. Between 2002 and 2009, the compound annual growth rates for imported FDA-regulated foods, drugs, medical devices, veterinary products and biologics were 9.5%, 12.9%, […]
For the second half of 2011, sales growth for the global chemicals market is expected to be solid, but volume growth will be milder, according to Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu’s “Compass 2011: Global Chemicals Sector Midyear Outlook.” Sales have been on the rise due to steeper prices and growth in developing markets. In 2010, Asia Pacific […]
Biomarkers can help indicate if people are likely to develop a disease and how they will respond to treatment, but the connection may be overstated, according to a recent analysis by John Ioannidis and Orestis Panagiotou. Their paper, published in the June 1 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), examined 35 […]
This month, the US National Science and Technology Council issued a report detailing proposals to enhance the development and use of advanced materials. The Materials Genome Initiative, as it is called, would focus on the infrastructure required to study advanced materials. Current challenges for advanced materials include the lengthy development period and lack of recyclability. […]
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