Pressure is growing to require accreditation of US food testing labs. The FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act could require such accreditation, but a proposal addressing the issue has yet to be released. The US has around 25,000 food testing labs, including 5,000 third-party labs, but less than 5% are accredited. Accreditation organizations and some food […]
In the latest development in the biosimilars market, in September, the European Medicines Agency granted its first approval for a monoclonal antibody biosimilar. IMS Health estimates that biosimilar sales in markets that are highly regulated totaled around $700 million in 2011 and will account for about 2% of the total biotech market by 2016. According […]
The shutdown of the US federal government that began October 1, is having a wide spread impact on science and research. In addition to worker furloughs, researchers cannot access their labs, travel to meetings, or engage in fieldwork. Some extramural researchers report they are also unable to complete fieldwork. Grant processing, reviews and meetings have […]
Thermal analysis instrumentation is united by its focus on the effect of temperature on samples. Techniques differ in the properties each measures during the analysis. In the case of dielectric thermal analysis (DETA), the measurements provide information on the electrical behavior of the material in the sample. The heart of a DETA instrument is similar […]
Economic reforms in Japan have put science and technology at center stage. Under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was elected last year, the country has embarked on a new economic policy termed “abenomics” that is designed to spur growth via government stimulus, monetary infusion through new central banking policies and structural changes. The plan aims […]
Bruker has announced the world’s first Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) scanner. The scanner is intended to be a new complementary technology for preclinical imaging of small animals. It is codeveloped and comarketed with Royal Philips, manufactured by Bruker and will ship this year. The key enabling technology of MPI is a tracer that produces a […]
Company Announcements Life Technologies granted Suzhou Ribo Life Sciences exclusive rights to develop and manufacture siRNA therapeutics in China using its Invivofectamine Rx delivery technology. In July, Life Technologies announced a long-term supply and exclusive licensing agreement with Novartis for immunotherapeutics involving T cells modified to express chimeric antigen receptors for the treatment of cancer. […]
Company Announcements Roche Diagnostics’ second quarter sales of qPCR and NAP (nucleic acid purification) Systems increased 6%. Fiscal first quarter sales ending June 30 for Hitachi High-Technologies Science and Medical Systems (SMS) fell 18.0% to ¥29,100 million ($294.5 million) to account for 22% of revenues (see IBO 7/31/13). Biotechnology, Medical and Electron Microscopes declined 26.2%, […]
Company Announcements In July, AB SCIEX, Genedata and LECO partnered to deliver a collaborative software system to enable metabolomics researchers to process and analyze data across different GC/MS and LC/MS platforms. In July, Thermo Fisher Scientific agreed to exclusively distribute Mitsui Knowledge Industry’s Lipid Search software for the interpretation of lipidomic research data. In July, […]
Company Announcements Trovagene entered into a research agreement in June with Illumina to evaluate integrating their respective transrenal and sequencing technologies. The CEO of Life Technologies’ Ion Torrent business, Dr. Jonathan Rothberg, resigned in June. Ronnie Andrews, president of the Genetic and Medical Sciences organization, now oversees the business. Sage Science named Uniscience do Brasil […]
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