Illumina Delivers in China Despite continued weakness in Europe, Illumina’s second quarter sales advanced 11.3% to $600.1 million. Results were slightly above company expectations and notably stronger than the first quarter, led by demand for sequencing and microarray consumables, as well as higher genotyping services revenue and improved order execution. Sales for the NIPT business […]
Since last September, the biotechnology industry’s funding has had outflows each month, which totaled $3 billion in January and February of this year. Funds raised by biotechnology companies have decreased 68.4% from 2015, falling from $58 billion to $18.3 billion. The Nasdaq Biotech Index of US health care firms has fallen 17.6% since the beginning […]
The world’s Total Primary Energy Supply for 2014 was 13,700 Mtoe, with 14% representing renewable energy sources. Of this percentage, solid biofuels/charcoal represented 66%, making it the largest global renewable energy source. Hydro power represented 18% of renewable sources, with geothermal sources, liquid biofuels, biogases, solar, wind and tide sources accounting for the remainder. Renewable […]
According to the Nature Index, which follows the research output of over 8,000 global institutions, the 10 countries with the highest increases, or weighted fractional count (WFC), in their scientific contributions from 2012 to 2015 are Saudi Arabia, increasing 87.1%; China, increasing 43.6%; Poland, increasing 34.3%; Russia, increasing 24.2%; India, increasing 23.0%; Brazil, increasing 18.9%; […]
Early this month, the Communist Party and the State Council’s Central Committee issued recommendations to permit scientists and researchers to have more control over the allocation of research grants for R&D funding. From 2010 to 2014, China’s total expenditure on R&D grew from CNY 706.3 billion to CNY 1.3 trillion ($211 billion), making up a […]
Over the last 10-plus years, science in Africa has experienced a revival, with organizations in the international scientific community showing interest in the continent’s research output. Last month, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) partnered with Wellcome Trust to establish the interdisciplinary Africa Health Research Institute, based in South Africa. By integrating data from the […]
Last month, the Russian government announced that it plans to layoff approximately 10,000 researchers within the next three years, with the majority of cuts occurring at Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) institutes. The layoffs represent 17% of RAS’s staff. Moreover, the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations, created in 2013 to oversee RAS’s property and budget, […]
IBO’s 2016 Industrial Design Awards for lab equipment recognize nonanalytical systems, defined as products used in a laboratory that are electrical and are operational for at least one year. Due to the technologies’ maturity, lab equipment is often characterized by a standard industrial design, depending on the type of system. This year’s winners evolve the […]
The winners of the 2016 IBO Industrial Design Awards for portable instruments employ compactness and ease-of-use in their designs. Portable instruments can be easily transported to field locations for various analyses, such as testing, characterization and detection. Gold Award The 2016 Gold Award for Portable Analytical Instrument Industrial Design goes to Sage Analytics’ Luminary Beacon, […]
Company Announcements Abcam named Gavin Wood, former executive vice president and CFO of Affymetrix, to succeed Jeff Iliffe as CFO, effective July 18. Applied Biological Materials licensed immortalized Kupffer cells from Indiana University Research and Technology for commercialization. Cell Applications and StemoniX partnered to enable mass production of human iPSCs from one lot within one […]
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