Company Announcements Phenomenex and ChromaDex announced a collaboration agreement to provide solutions, consisting of a combination of reference standards, methods and application support, for dietary supplements. NovaSep named Patrick Glaser, head of the Synthesis division, president and CEO, effective October 1, 2012. SiliCycle opened a Chinese office in November 2012. Product Introductions AB SCIEX introduced […]
Company Announcements PerkinElmer opened a customer center in Krakow, Poland. Analytik Jena was among the supporters of an endowed professorship in fiber optics awarded to Markus Schmidt at Germany’s University of Jena. HORIBA inaugurated in November 2012 its research and technology center at France’s Saclay Technopole. The facility, which is 7,500 square feet with the […]
The UK has announced details of its additional £600 million ($967 million) investment in Research Council infrastructure announced last year (see IBO 12/15/12). Big Data programs received £189 million in new funding, which will contribute to research in areas such as bioinformatics and environmental monitoring. Phase 2 of the National Space Technology Programme received £25 […]
Following the discovery of horse meat in processed foods sold in supermarkets in EU countries, the EU is set to require additional food safety tests. In an emergency meeting involving representatives of seven EU nations, the European Commission (EC) has called for 4,000 tests of horse carcasses to detect phenylbutazone, a drug that can harm […]
China’s State Council has announced new automobile fuel standards reducing sulfur content. The Fifth-phase standards limiting sulfur content to 10 ppm in gas and diesel will be introduced in June and take effect in 2017. Beijing has already implemented the standard. The Fourth-phase standard for gas of 50 ppm was previously announced, with one for […]
Starting this year, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has instituted a new system for Common Procedural Terminology codes, which are used to bill Medicare for molecular diagnostics tests. Test 1 tests include most of the tests already in use. Tier 2 consists of low-volume, esoteric test divided among nine levels. Pricing […]
Global investments in clean energy declined 11% last year to $268.7 billion. Countries where investments showed the fastest growth included China, the largest investor, where they increased 20% to $67.7 billion; and Japan, where they jumped 75% to $16.3 billion (excluding R&D). US, German and Brazilian investments plunged 32%, 27% and 32% to $44.2 billion, […]
Drug approvals by the US FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research reached a 15-year high last year, growing 33% to 39 new drugs, and consisting of 33 new molecular entities, up from 24 in 2011, and 6 new biological entities, the same as a year ago. Twenty of the drugs were first in-class agents. […]
In the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011 (FY11), science and engineering (S&E) research space at US universities performing research increased 3.5% to 202.9 million net assignable square feet (NASF), compared with 2009. This is slower growth than the 4.4% increase recorded between FY07 and FY09, but an increase from the 1.5% growth from FY05 […]
Eleven of the 18 companies in the IBO Laboratory Instrument Sales Index reported fourth-quarter 2012 results before this issue’s publication. Including estimates for firms yet to report, fourth-quarter 2012 revenue for the Index improved 2.9%, or 3.8% excluding currency. Operating profit for the Index edged 0.4% higher. Based on continuing operations, operating margin slipped 70 […]
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