The total hectarage of biotech crops increased 6.2% to 170.3 million hectares in 2012. The hectarage of stacked-trait biotech crops grew 3.6% last year to comprise 26% of the global biotech area. Biotech crops were grown in 28 countries, led by the US, Brazil and Argentina, where biotech crop production accounted for 41%, 21% and […]
The FDA has proposed changes to its approval process for new Alzheimer’s drugs, which is expected to ease approval by providing clearer criteria. Published on the website of The New England Journal of Medicine, the plan would eliminate the requirement that a clinical trial show improvement in patients’ daily functioning. Rather, improvement in early-stage Alzheimer’s […]
US equity markets trended higher in March, despite financial concerns over sequestration, higher payroll taxes, renewed European debt woes and a sluggish US fourth-quarter GDP growth rate, which was revised slightly higher from 0.1% to 0.4%. Instead, investors focused on the stronger consumer sector, including higher home prices, personal spending and retail sales, which should […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker debuted the Aurora Elite inductively coupled plasma (ICP)–MS, a high-performance sibling to its existing Aurora M90. The improved ion optics and fast electronics increase the sensitivity of the system, and Bruker considers it the most sensitive single quadrupole ICP-MS on the market. The base price is $178,000, though a complete system with […]
St. Joseph, MI 3/18/13—LECO and AB SCIEX have announced a comarketing agreement in North America and Europe for the sale of bundled solutions for metabolomics research. The products covered by the agreement are LECO’s GC-TOF MS and AB SCIEX’s LC/MS systems. “Representing a virtual one-stop shop for metabolomics mass spectrometry, the joint bundles from AB […]
Carlsbad, CA 3/21/13—Active Motif, a provider of epigenetics-based research tools to analyze nuclear function, has acquired SwitchGear Genomics for an undisclosed amount. SwitchGear Genomics supplies research products for studying the human genome’s regulatory elements. “SwitchGear Genomics has a unique combination of expertise in computational regulatory element identification, experimental validation and data analysis that offers the […]
St. Louis, MO 3/22/13—The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has reported that Sigma-Aldrich plans to sell SAGE (Sigma Advanced Genetic Engineering) Labs, its research animal model business, to a private equity firm. A Sigma-Aldrich spokesperson told the newspaper that as the result of the company’s recent reorganization (see IBO 3/15/13), the business is not a strategic fit. […]
San Diego, CA 3/14/13; Tacoma, WA 3/14/12—A jury in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington at Tacoma has found that Illumina’s BeadChip array product infringes Syntrix Biosystems’ US Patent No. 6,951,682, entitled “Porous coatings bearing ligand arrays and use thereof” (see IBO 4/30/11). The jury ordered Illumina to pay Syntrix $96 […]
New York, NY 3/19/13; New York, NY 3/22/13—Reuters reported that Roche is contemplating a bid to acquire Life Technologies (see IBO 1/31/13, 2/28/13, 3/15/13), according to anonymous sources. However, Bloomberg later reported that Roche was only considering a purchase of part of the company. Two sources told Bloomberg that industry companies, such as Danaher or […]
Each year, IBO selects from the large number of new products exhibited at Pittcon three analytical instrument systems or laboratory products as the top new products of the show. New products are defined as products introduced within the past six months. The top new products are selected based on their innovation, claimed technical merits and […]
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