Washington, DC 3/18/14—Bio-Rad Laboratories reported in its annual 10K SEC filing for 2013 that it has identified a material weakness in its internal control over financial reporting. This follows the company’s identification of other material weaknesses in internal controls in 2011 and 2012 (see IBO 4/30/13). In its latest 10K filing, the company stated, “we […]
A wide variety of technologies on the market allow scientists to image cells and tissues in 3-D. However, common techniques such as wide-field or confocal microscopy are often challenged by a certain degree of inefficiencies, photobleaching and photodamage to living tissues and cells, particularly when examining cells over long periods. Light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM), […]
Product Introductions Metrohm introduced in November 2013 the scTRACE gold sensor for the voltammetric determination of arsenic in water. No preconditioning is required. In January, Modern Water launched the voltammetry-based OVA7000 Dual Cell for detecting metals in liquid applications. It has two analytical cells and one pretreatment unit, and can detect up to 10 metals. […]
Company Announcements Alpha Mos revenues for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, increased 3.3% to €8.87 million ($11.7 million). In March, LECO and CDS Analytical announced a technology relationship that interfaces their respective GC TOFMS and programmable pyrolysis sample introduction system. INFICON Emergency Response & Security revenue grew 36.7% in the fourth quarter 2013 […]
Final Pittcon 2014 attendance figures have been released, updating the figures in the March 15 issue of IBO. Total attendance declined 10.7% to 16,255. The number of conferees (excluding exhibitors, students and media) declined 12.6% to make up 59% of attendees. The number of exhibitor personnel fell 9.3% to 6,220. Thirty-six percent of conferees were […]
Company Announcements XRF Scientific increased its shareholding in Gestion Scancia, a manufacturer of X-ray fluxes, from 20% to 50% in fall 2013. In January, Helmut Fischer acquired IfG-Institute for Scientific Instruments, its longtime partner for polycapillary optics. The UK’s University of Leicester Space Research Center announced a collaboration with Bruker Elemental to develop a handheld […]
Company Announcements AB SCIEX completed the transfer of the manufacturing of Eksigent chromatography products from the US to Singapore last fall. In December 2013, Therapure Biopharma agreed to acquire Upfront Chromatography’s assets and business related to human plasma fractionation and will market the technology under the new trademark PlasmaCap EBA. Chiral Technologies appointed SMS a […]
Financials for the IBO Laboratory Instrument Sales Index have been updated from the numbers that appeared in the February 15 issue. For the fourth quarter 2013, Index sales grew 7.7%, 6.9% excluding currency, to $7,022 million. Operating profit climbed 14.0% to $1,624, and operating margin improved 130 basis points to 19.1% of sales. For 2013, […]
Over the next five years, science and technology research in the UK will receive an additional £222 million ($369 million) in funding, according to Chancellor George Osborne’s annual budget announcement. This funding will supplement the current budget, which is £4.6 billion for each of the next two years. Rather than helping to sustain basic science […]
Company Announcements Life Technologies announced in January a multiyear license and supply agreement with Quest Diagnostics, giving Quest the right to develop molecular tests on the Ion Torrent platform. Illumina entered into a multiyear licensing agreement, giving Quest Diagnostics broad rights to its sequencing and genotyping technology for molecular lab–developed tests in the US and […]
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