Company Announcements Ultrasonix Medical agreed in September to supply Bioscan with specialized ultrasound imaging products for use in the preclinical imaging market. Illumina entered into a strategic alliance with Partners Healthcare in September to offer medical geneticists and pathologists infrastructure and networking tools to support the interpretation and reporting process for genetic sequencing data. The […]
Spain’s R&D spending dropped 2.8% to €14,184 million ($19,700 million) in 2011 to make up 1.33% of GDP. R&D spending by the business sector fell 1.5% to account for 52% of spending. Spending by the higher education and public administration declined 2.9% and 5.7% to make up 28% and 20%, respectively. The public administration sector […]
This month, the Chinese government revealed the country’s first official plan to manage hazardous waste. A goal of the plan is to establish the amount and source of hazardous waste produced. In 2007, the Ministry of Environmental Protection announced conflicting figures on the amount of hazardous waste for which industrial sources were responsible. That year, […]
In this month’s “Short-Term Energy Outlook,” the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicted that global liquid fuel and crude oil demand will increase 0.9% in 2012 and 1.0% in 2013 to 89.9 million barrels per day (bpd). The supply of global liquid fuel and crude oil will increase 2.3% in 2012 and 1.1% in 2013 […]
The CDC’s Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS): Standardization of Clinical Testing workgroup has published recommendations for quality management for next-generation sequencing in clinical labs addressing accuracy in variant calling. The guidelines address test validation, quality control, third-party test assessment and reference materials. The workgroup sought approaches for a quality management system for analytical validity and compliance of […]
Nonculture diagnostic tests for foodborne pathogens, which are becoming more popular and determined nearly 15% of foodborne pathogen outbreaks in 2010, have advantages and disadvantages compared with traditional culture tests. The new nonculture tests, developed by firms such as Abbott Laboratories, BD, Cepheid and Luminex, can detect bacteria that culture tests cannot, such as the […]
Equities were mostly higher in November despite concerns over the US budget deficit. Positive economic indicators included better-than-expected jobless claims and GDP growth, as well as rising housing prices and consumer confidence. On November 29, US third-quarter GDP growth was revised upward from 2.0% to 2.7%, primarily due to inventory investments. For the month, the […]
Santa Clara, CA and Penzberg, Germany 11/7/12—Agilent Technologies will be the exclusive provider of continued services to Roche NimbleGen customers as Roche phases out its NimbleGen microarray production and services. Roche and Agilent announced that customers can transition to Agilent arrays with minimal disruption for all applications because of the technologies’ similarities. “Our field service […]
San Diego, CA 11/12/12—Illumina announced that VWR International will distribute its qPCR portfolio, including the Eco Real-Time PCR System and the NuPCR reagents, in the US. “We are very excited to join forces with VWR to accelerate adoption of our qPCR portfolio, particularly into the pharmaceutical and industrial markets where VWR has a strong presence,” […]
Paris, France 10/22/12; Paris France 10/22/12—Publicly held French energy firm AREVA has entered into exclusive negotiations with private equity company Astorg Partners to sell its Canberra radiation measurement business. AREVA is divesting assets in order to reduce debt and finance new investments.
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