San Diego, CA 11/11/13—Illumina has named Francis deSouza president. He will begin his position in December. Mr. deSouze currently serves as president of Products & Services at Symantec.
Sarasota, FL 10/28/13; Houston, TX 11/6/13—PAC, a Roper Industries company, has acquired Advanced Sensors, a supplier of oil-in-water process analyzers, for £34 million ($55 million = £0.62 = $1). Advanced Sensors’ analyzers utilize ultrasonics, fluorescence, video microscopy, optical spectrometry and MS to ensure process and environmental control and offer early warning indicators of leaks and […]
London, UK 11/12/13; London, UK 11/12/13; London, UK 11/12/13; London, UK 11/12/13—Research tools firm Oxford Instruments has announced it is in discussions to acquire publicly held Andor Technology, a provider of scientific cameras, microscope systems and analytical software, stating that the acquisition would add to its Nano-Bio business. Oxford has made an indicative offer of […]
Reinach, Switzerland 10/31/23; Jena, Germany 11/14/13—Analytik Jena announced that Endress+Hauser, which currently holds 47% of the company’s shares, has concluded an option agreement giving it the right to purchase an additional 28% stake through the purchase of the shares owned by the German state of Thuringia, which controls 18%, and the shares held by CEO […]
Fourteen of the 17 companies in the IBO Laboratory Sales Index reported quarterly earnings before this issue’s publication. Including estimates for Analytik Jena (Analytical Instrumentation and Life Science) Spectris (Materials Analysis) and Tecan, third quarter revenue for the IBO Laboratory Sales Index grew 1.4%, 0.9% excluding currency, to $6,143 million. Operating profit improved 1.7% to […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized pricing for new, analyte-specific molecular codes in late September. Compared to the former stacked code system, which did not list prices for individual tests, the average price of the new codes is 26% higher and the mean price is 25% higher. However, the median price declined […]
The FDA announced this month a proposal to eliminate artificial trans fats that are found in processed foods, such as cookies and frozen pizza. The proposal would classify artificial trans fats as a food additive, and thus requiring regulatory approval. Since 2006, the FDA has required that artificial trans fats be cited on food labels, […]
An October survey of 74 US public and private research universities by the Association of American Universities, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), and the Science Coalition sheds new light on the effects of the US federal budget sequestration, which began in March. Eighty-one percent of respondents reported that the sequestration had an […]
R&D spending in Spain declined 5.6% in 2012 to €13,392 million ($17,169 million), or 1.3% of GDP. R&D spending by the business sector fell 4.1% to make up 53% of total R&D spending. Higher education R&D spending declined 7.2% to make up 28%, and public sector R&D spending fell 7.4% to account for 19%. Business, […]
Australia’s Ministry of Education has announced AUD 522 million ($495 million) in funding for projects sponsored by the Australia Research Council (ARC). The ARC’s Discovery Projects scheme received the highest amount of funding: AUD 257.6 million for 703 basic and applied research projects. The Future Fellowship scheme, which funds research of critical national importance, will […]
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