Company Announcements Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation announced that under a partnership with Imdex and Olympus, its Deep Exploration Technologies Cooperative Research Centre developed Lab-at-Rig technology, which allows for the chemistry and mineralogy of drill-hole rocks to be analyzed within minutes of drilling. REFLEX, a division of Imdex, a mining technology firm, will […]
Company Announcements LECO opened a European Application and Technology Center in Berlin, Germany, in October 2015. In October 2015, Waters opened a Malaysian subsidiary. Shimadzu established an incorporated association in partnership with Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, for the analysis of residual pesticides in agriculture and food products. Becton, Dickinson Executive Vice President and COO William A. […]
Japanese food and food-related companies will have to implement HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) systems, according to a revision to the country’s Food Sanitation Law that is expected to be proposed next year. HACCP includes a series of measurements and checks throughout food production to ensure food safety and proper handling. The Ministry […]
Company Announcements Circulomics received in October 2015 a $1.5 million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences to create a portfolio of DNA/RNA extraction products. Neoteryx announced a joint development agreement with Brechbühler, which will engineer a turnkey instrument that automates sample handling and extraction for […]
The Chinese government is in the final stages of beginning a precision medicine initiative aimed toward creating a strong Chinese presence in the field of genome sequencing. Expected to be formally announced in March as part of the government’s next Five-Year Plan (2016–2020), preliminary estimates for funding of the initiative are around ¥60 billion ($9.2 […]
In an effort to forge a closer relationship between science and industry, a new measure promoting innovations and technology cooperation between public and private research organizations was signed into law this month by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. The law allows freer collaborations between companies and public research institutions. Features of the law include company access […]
According to Food Processing’s 15th annual Manufacturing Outlook Survey, published this month, which surveyed 251 food professionals in October–November 2015, 29% of respondents were very optimistic about the industry in 2016 and 49% were somewhat optimistic. As for their capital spending outlook for 2016, 22% chose “don’t know,” followed by 17% that predict an increase […]
There is a growing trend toward QA in labs. QC systems are integral to virtually all commercial goods and services, and certain clinical application labs implement these systems (such as Good Clinical Practice, Good Manufacturing Practice and Good Laboratory Practice) for data submission to regulatory agencies. A QA group, Quality Central, launched in 2009, now […]
On January 16, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the NIH, launched the Centers for Common Disease Genomics (CCDG) to study the genetic factors that make up common and uncommon human diseases. The CCDG is an extension of the NHGRI’s flagship Genome Sequencing program, which focused on wide ranging genome sequencing projects. […]
Concerns over tightening US monetary policy, faltering industrial markets and China’s economic slowdown led to Wall Street’s worst January performance since 2009. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and NASDAQ slumped 5.5%, 5.1% and 7.9% in January, respectively. Nonetheless, results could have been worse, as major indexes jumped more than 2.3% in the final […]
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