Prompted by a mandatory five-year review of particle pollution standards under the Clean Air Act, the EPA proposed an update to the National Ambient Air Quality Standards to lower the limit for fine particle pollution from 15 µg/m3 to 12–13 µg/m3. The EPA also proposed an alternate limit of 11 µg/m3. The proposal stipulates that […]
The number of CROs in the US quadrupled from 2000 to 2011 to reach more than 3,100, according to Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD). Tufts CSDD examined 3,244 US CROs in 15 major geographic areas, which were thought to represent about three-quarters of US CROs. These firms had total 2011 revenues […]
First-quarter Life Science Index sales grew 3.1%, 2.5% on a currency-neutral basis, to $3,163 million. Revenue growth for several companies was negatively impacted by lower research funding in the US. Operating profit improved 5.2% to $700 million, and operating margin was unchanged at 22.1% of sales. Of the 13 Index companies, Tecan was the only […]
Regulatory issues are the top concern and the factor that will most affect capital-spending decisions this year for 47% and 46%, respectively, of the 225 financial executives from energy firms who responded to KPMG’s global 2012 energy survey in April. For 2012, 60% of executives expect their firms’ capital spending to increase, with 26% predicting […]
IBO has selected Agilent’s 8800 triple quadrupole inductively coupled plasma–MS (ICP-MS) as the outstanding new product at this year’s ASMS meeting. While the majority of ICP-MS systems are based on single quadrupole mass analyzers, and there are a handful of TOF and magnetic sector systems, the 8800 is the first triple quadrupole ICP-MS. Thus, the […]
This year’s 60th annual conference of the American Society of Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) was held in Vancouver, Canada, from May 20 to 24. Attendance by both exhibitors and end-users was down marginally, from 169 and 6,477 in Denver, Colorado, last year to 165 and 6,283, respectively, this year. There were no fewer than a dozen […]
London, UK 5/9/12—LGC Standards has acquired VHG Labs, a US-based supplier of spectrochemical standards, lab instrument consumables and product-testing services, for an undisclosed amount. “For LGC Standards, this latest acquisition builds on our strategy to increase our footprint in the US market,” said LGC Standards Managing Director David Richardson. “Importantly, it is also a good […]
Greece has set the stage for a modern-era economic tragedy, as the country decides whether to abide by the bailout agreement or exit the Eurozone. An even graver concern is the fate of other European debt-ridden countries. These concerns coupled with softer US manufacturing growth, declining US consumer confidence and continued weakness in the US […]
Company Announcements Expanding their current agreement, in March, Cosmo Bio assumed a leadership position in Japan for the promotion, sale and high-level support of Enzo Life Sciences products. Also, Enzo will expand its global distribution of Cosmo Bio’s research biotools. Cellular Dynamics expanded its agreement with iPS Academia Japan to include iCell Neurons and iCell […]
The traditional method for performing gel electrophoresis experiments requires several pieces of equipment, such as a power supply, a staining apparatus, a UV light source and a camera. However, integrated gel electrophoresis systems combine many of these accessories into one compact unit. These integrated systems accept pre-cast gels, which can be purchased from the system […]
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