Orlando, FL 2/9/16; San Diego, CA 2/10/16; Santa Clara and Pleasanton, CA 2/11/16 —10X Genomics, the provider of a molecular barcoding platform for NGS, has signed agreements with three instrument firms to utilize its technology as part of their NGS product lines. Illumina and 10X entered into a comarketing agreement for sequencing solutions. QIAGEN and […]
Paris, France 12/24/15—Nuclear technology firm Areva has announced that it will sell its Canberra nuclear instrumentation and measurement business to Mirion-Charterhouse, a provider of radiation protection equipment, radiation detection and monitoring systems, and dosimetry systems. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of 2016.
Berwyn, PA 2/5/16—AMETEK, a manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices, has acquired Brookfield Engineering for $167 million. Brookfield manufactures and sells viscometers and rheometers, and instrumentation for texture and powder-flow analysis. The company has annual sales of around $55 million. “Its products and technologies complement our existing laboratory instrumentation businesses and provide us with […]
Santa Clara, CA 2/3/16; San Francisco, CA 2/4/16—Agilent Technologies has filed suit against Twist Bioscience, its CEO Emily Leproust, PhD, and 20 unnamed defendants. Filed in California Superior Court in Santa Clara County, the complaint alleges breach of contract, breach of the duty of loyalty and misappropriation of trade secrets. According to the complaint, Dr. […]
New York, NY 2/2/16—Citing unnamed sources, Reuters reports that Roche is in discussions with sequencer firm Pacific Biosciences regarding a possible acquisition. Pacific Biosciences developed sequencing technology for Roche to sell and for which Roche will create and supply reagents. The system is expected to be commercialized in the second half of 2016. According to […]
The world’s 7th largest economy in 2014 and expected to become the 5th largest by 2018, Southeast Asia is a focus of global economic growth and opportunity due to an expanding middle class, increasing exports and the enactment last year of two trade pacts, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). Of […]
A lack of sufficient inventory organization and proficient reagent tracking systems, as well as high lab costs all contribute to low efficiency levels that can plague many labs and frustrate scientists, according to a group of new companies founded to innovate purchasing and supply management methods in labs. To bring lower costs and higher efficiency […]
Since IBO’s last article on 2016 economic forecasts (see IBO 1/15/16), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued an update to its October 2015 World Economic Outlook. Released earlier this month, the update outlines the factors influencing the revisions, such as China’s economy moving away from manufacturing and investment and toward services and consumption; decreased […]
Terahertz spectroscopy has surmounted many of the technological challenges that have prevented its wider acceptance, and while most of the interest in terahertz is research oriented, industrial applications are also developing in niche areas. Complete commercial systems came onto the market about 15 years ago, and the vendor base is also expanding, helping to evolve […]
Company Announcements SYGNIS announced in December 2015 a distribution agreement with Mayflower Bioscience for the US, and with PhileKorea, Pharma Tech Korea and Axil Scientific for South Korea and Singapore. In December 2015, Transgenomic was awarded a two-year, $1.5 million Small Business Technology Transfer grant by the NIH to fund a project with the Dana-Farber […]
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