Each August, IBO selects the winners of the IBO Design Awards, recognizing the industrial design of analytical instruments, laboratory equipment (page 6) and portable instruments (page 7) that are notable for their enhancement of the user experience. The accomplishments are aesthetic in terms of the product’s visual appeal and novelty, yet the industrial design also […]
IBO’s laboratory equipment design awards recognize creative and function industrial design of lab equipment, which is defined as receiving an electrical current, operational for a minimum of one year and unable to analyze a sample characteristic. Gold Award ELGA’s PURELAB Chorus laboratory water system is the winner of IBO’s 2014 Gold Industrial Design Award for […]
City governments in China are taking measures to improve the supervision of food safety. Oversight had been managed by multiple departments, resulting in an inefficient system. Some local-level governments have combined the bodies responsible for food safety. In Tianjin Municipality, for example, the Tianjin Market Quality Supervision Administration was established, unifying the separate duties of […]
Several entities are partnering to provide £300 million ($506.9 million) to the UK’s 100,000 Genomes Project. The funds are to accomplish the Project’s goal of sequencing 100,000 patient genomes by 2017 from the records of the National Health Service (NHS) to devise personalized-disease and cancer therapies. Illumina will grant £162 million over the next four […]
In July, the European Commission’s Committee on Scientific Emerging Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) proposed guidance on medical devices making use of nanomaterials. Many of the risks of nanoparticles to the environment and human health are not known, and SCENIHR’s recommendations aim to learn about these risks while minimizing them. Five phases are proposed for […]
Two separate research groups have completed MS-based maps of human-protein expression, cataloging nearly all the proteins expressed in the human body. Each paper was published in Nature. Combined, the two groups reported more than 70 million mass spectra. Each study documented more than 17,000 proteins encoded by distinct genes. The Human Proteome Map created by […]
BASF once again topped Chemical & Engineering News’s annual ranking of the top 50 global chemical firms. The German company’s $78.6 billion chemical sales in 2013 dominated, outdistancing the second-largest firm, China’s Sinopec, which had 2013 revenues of $60.8 billion. Sinopec rose to the number-two spot this year, overtaking Dow Chemical. Another change among the […]
The FDA will begin regulating laboratory-developed tests (LDTs), it announced at the end of July. To present, the agency has used “enforcement discretion,” and generally not imposed regulation on LDTs, despite their being considered medical devices. According to the FDA, changes in the LDT market over time without oversight might now expose patients to risk. […]
Second quarter revenues for IBO’s Laboratory Instrument Sales Index grew 4.8%, 4.3% excluding currency, to $6,259 million. Organic sales growth was driven by strong results from HORIBA, Illumina and Thermo Fisher Scientific. Operating profit advanced 10.5% to $1,324 million. Operating margin expanded 70 basis points to 18.4% of sales. Modest growth estimates are included for […]
Tokyo, Japan 8/4/14; Sedgefield, UK 8/5/14—Publicly held Japanese firm ReproCELL, a supplier of iPSC-derived products, and media and reagents for cell culture, has acquired UK-based Reinnervate and US-based BioServe Biotechnologies for an undisclosed amount. Reinnervate provides 3-D cell-culture products. BioServe supplies human tissue and other biological samples. “The ReproCELL group of companies now offers products […]
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