The China Food and Drug Administration published a draft of an update to the 2009 Food Safety Law last month. Among the additions is a statement that food producers and traders “are the first persons responsible for food safety.” The update also specifies that the Food and Drug Regulatory Department is responsible for food safety […]
Company Announcements In August, Agilent Technologies gave an Agilent Thought Leader Award to Dr. Emmanuel Barillot, director of Bioinformatics and Systems IT at the Institute Curie in Paris, in recognition of his development of user friendly, Web-based bioinformatics tools for systems toxicology. Agilent Technologies opened in August the $25 million Spectroscopy Technology Innovation Center in […]
Company Announcements In July, Rigaku acquired Emerald Bio’s reagent and consumables business, including the Wizard screens, to broaden its solutions for protein crystallography. GE Measurement & Control agreed in October to sell Thermo Fisher Scientific’s XL PMI, XL PMI+ and XL PMI+ Ultra handheld X-ray fluorescence (XRF) systems.This broadens GE’s non-destructive testing offerings for the […]
Company Announcements Life Technologies announced in July an agreement to distribute CEERAM’s (the European Centre for Expertise and Research on Microbial Agents) RT-qPCR assays for the detection of Norovirus GI and Norovirus GII, Hepatitis A and the Mengovirus Extraction Control Kit. Under a joint development agreement announced in July, Rheonix will supply its technology to […]
Company Announcements Miltenyi Biotec opened an office in South Korea in June, enlarging its presence to six locations in five countries. IntelliCyt opened an office in Los Altos, California, in July. Bulldog Bio is now a North American distributor of Fluxion Biosciences’ products. In August, ViroCyt named Biotech Europe a distributor for the Commonwealth of […]
Company Announcements In August, HORIBA Scientific agreed to distribute AIST-NT’s scanning probe microscope products in most of Europe, China and South America. Bruker joined SEMATECH, a consortium of semiconductor chipmakers, in October. Product Introductions FEI introduced in August the Metrios transmission electron microscope (TEM) for semiconductor manufacturing metrology, the Talos TEM for high speed imaging […]
A record breaking transaction overshadowed tepid merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the instrument and laboratory product–related industry in 2013. Upon completion, Thermo Fisher Scientific’s acquisition of Life Technologies for $13.6 billion and assumed debt of $2.2 billion (see IBO 4/15/13) will represent the single largest transaction ever in the analytical instrument and laboratory product–related […]
Molecular cytogenetic technologies have become vitally important in the analysis of chromosomes for both diagnostics and research applications. Technologies such as fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) and microarrays are replacing traditional karyotyping. FISH uses fluorescent probes that bind to the complementary DNA sequence on a chromosome. The samples are typically placed on a glass slide, […]
Following the 16-day closure of the US federal government, science agencies are catching up on grant reviews. At the NIH, 200 review panels were canceled, affecting the ranking of 11,000 grant applications. In response to researchers’ pleas, the agency will reschedule the panel meetings for the next two months. The NSF was forced to cancel […]
The dependence on Federal stimulus spending along with positive earnings and stronger-than-expected manufacturing data in China elevated US equity markets to new highs in October. The Federal Reserve maintained its bond buying policy citing sluggish employment growth. The probability of any policy change for the remainder of the year is extremely low due to weak […]
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