Atomic Spectroscopy PerkinElmer added to its PinAAcle series of atomic-absorption spectrometers. The 500 is a corrosion-resistant, flame-only system designed primarily for environmental applications that require robust performance, such as the mining and petrochemical industries. The system will begin shipping in June at a price in the low $20,000 range. Bruker introduced the S2 Puma as […]
According to the “Statistical Communiqué of the People’s Republic of China on the 2014 Economic and Social Development,” 2% of China’s GDP was spent on R&D in 2014, up 12.4% to CNY 1,331.2 billion ($216.2 billion). Fundamental research programs received CNY 62.6 billion ($10.2 billion). Projects implemented under the National Key Technology Research and Development […]
Since cuts to capital budgets in fiscal 2011, the UK has been developing infrastructure to promote the sharing of equipment and facilities within and across institutions as well as with businesses. Benefits of sharing include savings by maximizing use of existing equipment and providing access to equipment that might otherwise not be affordable to individual […]
This month, the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) released the results of its cost analysis and health economic–evaluation models for a number of genomic sequencing–procedure (GSP) CPT codes. The organization also released a template tool for molecular-diagnostic labs to determine the costs of their next-generation sequencing (NGS) assays for GSPs. The AMP performed the analysis […]
This spring, the National Cancer Institute will fund a program called Match to test the effects of a dozen or more new drugs on thousands of patients’ tumors. These so-called basket studies would group tumors from different types of cancers together, and a specific drug would be administered to patients possessing the same mutation. This […]
Last month, India’s 2015–16 budget was announced. The Ministry of Science Technology would receive INR 9,492 crore ($1,535 million), gaining 22.6% compared with figures from the revised fiscal 2015 budget. Within the Ministry, the Departments of Science and Technology, Biotechnology, and Scientific and Industrial Research would receive INR 3,836 crore ($621 million), INR 1,626 crore […]
Waltham, MA 1/21/15—Repligen, a provider of consumables products for manufacturing biological drugs, has appointed COO Tony J. Hunt as CEO, effective May 21. He succeeds Walter C. Herlihy, PhD, who will retire as president and CEO. “We are delighted to promote our COO, Tony Hunt, a seasoned and successful bioprocessing-industry executive, to the position of […]
This month, the FDA approved the first biosimilar drug in the US—Novartis’s Zarxio. An approximate copy of Amgen’s biologic drug Neupogen for increasing the white-blood-cell counts of cancer patients, Zarxio’s approval for all of Neupogen’s uses leads the way for competition and lower prices for biologics in the US. With the FDA now authorized to […]
Fourth quarter 2014 IBO Life Science Index sales grew 7.3%, 9.0% organically, to $4,317 million, marking its strongest organic growth since the first quarter of 2010. Growth was driven by demand from US pharmaceutical and biotechnology customers, increased research spending in Europe and positive demand in China. However, delayed spending in Japan and weak academic […]
Burgdorf, Switzerland 2/23/15—ReseaChem, a German provider of chemical services and isotope and laboratory supplies, has acquired Swiss firm ACL Instruments for an undisclosed amount. ACL provides solutions for the characterization of long-term oxidative reactions in solids and liquids, including instrumentation and services. ReseaChem stated that the acquisition was part of an effort to diversify its […]
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