St. Louis, MO 12/9/15—Manufacturing and distribution firm Harbour Group has acquired SP Industries, a provider of scientific equipment, biologic manufacturing solutions and labware, for an undisclosed amount. “SP’s brand strength, breadth of product and in-house manufacturing capabilities fit very well with our experience in the manufactured products sector,” said Harbour Chairman and CEO Jeff Fox. […]
London, UK 12/8/15; London, UK 12/8/15—Life sciences measurement and testing company LGC has been sold by private equity firm Bridgepoint to investment company KKR for an undisclosed amount. UK-based LGC provides life science testing products and services for a variety of markets, including pharmaceutical, agricultural biotechnology, food, environment, government and academia. LGC posted fiscal 2015 […]
Published this month by the European Commission (EC), the 2015 EU Industrial R&D Scoreboard tracked the spending of 2,500 publicly held companies in 44 countries across 41 industries that are the world’s largest R&D spenders. Together, these companies represented an estimated 90% of global business R&D and 55% of total R&D spending in fiscal 2014 […]
A subsegment of the qPCR market, nanoliter qPCR technologies have expanded qPCR capabilities and applications, enabling thousands of assays to be performed simultaneously with smaller sample amounts, resulting in lower reagent costs, higher throughput and more data points. Nanoliter PCR formats were introduced in the late 2000s and initially aimed at the largest application segments […]
According to a new report by Deloitte, R&D return on investments generated from the pharmaceutical industry’s annual investment in new product innovation have continued to decline. The annual projected R&D returns were 10.1% in 2010; in 2015, the returns were down to 4.2%. Since 2010, Deloitte’s original cohort of 12 companies has launched 186 products […]
The NSF has released preliminary figures for the US federal government’s budget authority for fiscal 2015. Total R&D and R&D-plant budget authority grew 0.7% to $137.2 billion in current dollars, down from 2.8% growth in fiscal 2014. Adjusted for inflation, both years’ levels are nearly flat with fiscal 2010. Nondefense R&D and R&D-plant budget authority […]
X-ray diffraction (XRD) is a nondestructive technique designed to probe the properties of crystalline materials. More commonly associated with the analysis of powders and single crystals for compounds and proteins of pharmaceutical interest, the technique is also used for residual-stress measurements in metals, advanced ceramics and other rigid samples. Residual stress is a measurement of […]
Company Announcements In September, as part of an NIH-funded project, NanoCellect Biomedical began a collaboration with the University of California, San Diego, to develop single-cell applications based on its microchip-enabled WOLF Cell Sorter. Venneos raised €1 million ($1 million) in seed financing in September to develop a semiconductor chip–based imaging system for cell analysis. MaxCyte […]
Company Announcements In October, Horizon Discovery announced that Swift Biosciences will incorporate its HDx Quantitative Multiplex Reference Standards into the Accel-Amplicon 56G Oncology Panel. Rubicon Genomics named Eurofins Genomics as a US distributor of its DNA library preparation products. Agilent Technologies named the Australian Genome Research Facility as a Certified Service Provider for NGS. Under […]
Company Announcements Ridgeview Instruments announced in August that AceProbe Technologies will market its LigandTrace technology in India. In September, Biometrics completed a financing round with €3.1 million ($3.5 million) to further develop its label-free system based on 1-lambda RIDe technology. In October, Sony DADC BioSciences and FIANOSTICS announced a collaboration to develop highly sensitive and […]
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