Tokyo, Japan 4/20/15—Shimadzu, a provider of analytical and measurement instrumentation, has named Teruhisa Ueda, PhD, as president and CEO. Dr. Ueda currently serves as senior managing executive officer, and general manager, Analytical & Measuring Instruments Division (AMI). He will replace Akira Nakamoto, who will become chairman. The approval of the change is expected to be […]
Aubagne, France 4/17/15; Glasgow, UK 4/17/15—Biopharmaceutical industry provider Sartorius Stedim Biotech has acquired BioOutsource for an undisclosed amount. BioOutsource provides contract testing services for monitoring the safety and quality of biologic drugs and vaccines, specializing in services for biosimilars. Based in Glasgow, Scotland, BioOutsource’s 12-month revenues totaled around €9 million ($12 million = €0.75 = […]
This year, the first edition of IBO’s biannual article on new labs reports the construction of several academic, government and industrial labs. The table on page 3 shows some of the largest buildings for academic research in the sciences that have been approved or are already under construction, as well as new labs in the […]
The annual American Association of Cancer Research meeting (AACR) was held April 18–22 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Attendance for the conference was 19,300, up about 4% from last year (see IBO 4/30/14). The number of companies exhibiting totaled 438. A notable trend in the exhibit hall was the number of CRISPR/Cas9 products and services available from […]
Water baths are used to hold lab specimens or reagents at desired temperatures. The relatively high heat retention of water allows it to maintain its temperature. The applications of water baths span a wide range and include coliform determination, immunohistochemistry and microbiological assays. Some of these applications, such as biochemical experiments, require high temperature precision […]
Company Announcements PicoQuant entered into an agreement with the Max Planck Society and the German Cancer Center to use gated STED (stimulated emission depletion) technology in its MicroTime 200 STED time-resolved confocal microscope for increased photostability and live-cell capability. In February, FEI and the Tsinghua University Branch of National Center for Protein Sciences Beijing announced […]
Company Announcements Dassault Systèms announced that 2014 revenue for its BIOVIA brand (formerly Accelrys) increased around 5% excluding currency effects. New license revenue rose more than 20% excluding currency effects. GenoLogics opened a new office in Redwood City, California, in February. Dotmatics joined the Pistoia Alliance. In March, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount […]
Company Announcements Under a commercial supply agreement announced in February, MRM Proteomics granted Cambridge Isotope Laboratories (CIL) exclusive rights to its PeptiQuant kits for quantitative proteomics, including its Stable Isotope Standards as part of the kits, which CIL will distribute. The first Biomarker Assessment Kit allows for 76 proteins to be quantitated in a single […]
Company Announcements Cepheid 2014 Non-Clinical revenue declined 29.9% to $29.0 million, or 6% of total revenues, primarily due to lower sales of anthrax test cartridges. North America accounted for 86% of Non-Clinical sales. Non-Clinical revenue is expected to decline again this year. WaferGen Bio-systems entered into a research collaboration with the Familial Breast Cancer Research […]
Company Announcements In January, Shimadzu opened a subsidiary in Malaysia with 44 employees. The company also plans to establish a manufacturing facility for Analytical and Measuring Instruments and an applications lab at the location. The new plant is expected to begin operation in December 2016. Local distributors will still be utilized for XRF spectrometers, optical […]
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