Company Announcements Malvern Instruments acquired Sysmex’s industrial particle measurement business in October 2010. Particulate Systems, a Micromeritics brand, announced in December 2010 an exclusive agreement to distribute Material Flow Equipment’s SPECTester material segregation tester. Under a collaboration agreement, Beckman Coulter Particle Characterization will refer customers to ImmunoSite Technologies for particle characterization services, and ImmunoSite will […]
Company Announcements Under a license from the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Akonni Biosystems plans to commercialize low-cost, multiplexed tests for research and IVD uses in bio-security applications. The tests are expected to be available in 2012. In February, GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services was the agent for and lender of $55 […]
Sri Lanka’s Health Ministry plans to establish the National Drug Quality Regulatory Authority as part of the National Drug Quality Regulatory Act, which will be delivered to Parliament by July. The Authority will fulfill the country’s need for quality testing of foreign pharmaceuticals. Currently, pharmacists randomly test drug batches. The Authority is expected to perform […]
The results of industry group France Biotech’s Life Science Panorama 2010 survey emphasize the emergence of a second generation of—and government support for—biotech firms in the medtech, environmental and renewable energy sectors. The analysis, released March 30, includes responses from 211 companies and reveals that despite increases in fund raising and staff in 2010, 33% […]
China’s Premier Wen Jiabao stressed the importance of streamlining government science funding in his annual report at the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in March. Funding for Chinese researchers is currently dependent on how many of their publications are found in Thomson Reuters’ Science Citation Index and the influence of the journals in which they […]
Western oil companies are divesting their refineries after a decades-long slump that has led to prolonged overcapacity and, thus, weak margins. Refining margins, which reached a high of $4.50 a barrel, are now 10% of that and declining, and are expected to remain weak in the future. Weak margins, however, are not discouraging state-owned and […]
An agreement, or “continuing resolution,” for the fiscal 2011 budget was reached by President Obama and leaders of the Democratic Senate and Republican House of Representatives. The budget cuts funding for science agencies across the board, but much less so than the initial budget approved by the House of Representatives in February would have. Science […]
The US leads the world in research but is expected to face competition in the future, according to the Royal Society’s 2011 Knowledge, Networks & Nations report. The report used information compiled from an April 2010 survey, a discussion session, interviews, secondary research and data analysis to examine the changing landscape of science and innovation. […]
Atomic Spectrometry LECO introduced two elemental analyzers for applications involving metals, alloys and other inorganic samples: the CS844 for carbon/sulfur measurements and the ONH836 for measuring oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen. Improvements in the combustion furnace, detector systems and cleaning automation have been combined with touch-screen control. The CS844 is priced at $65,000 and began shipment […]
For the third quarter, the IBO Lab Equipment/Consumables Index grew 2.4%, or 3.6% excluding currency. Operating profit improved 3.2%, and operating margins gained 10 basis points to 17.3% of sales. Fourth-quarter Index sales were flat, but grew 1.0% excluding currency to $4,030.02 million. Operating profit increased 3.6% to $691.05 million, and operating margins improved 40 […]
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