Company Announcements Illumina announced in May the registration of the MiSeqDx as a cleared IVD medical device in Australia. Illumina, Merck KGaA and Genea announced in June the formation of the Global Fertility Alliance for Excellence in Assisted Reproductive Treatment for advancing fertility technologies and processes within the assisted reproductive treatment lab, including greater standardization. […]
Company Announcements In June, Nikon Instruments joined the BIO Business Solutions program, offering the Nikon Instruments Research Grade Microscope Systems Program. In July, FEI and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) announced a collaboration agreement to establish a new Centre of Excellence located at KAUST Research & Technology Park in Thuwal, Saudi […]
Company Announcements Advanced Electrophoresis Solutions named Yiping Mu as CEO in March. Most recently, she served as general manager of Greater China Life Sciences at GE Healthcare. In May, Magnetic Insight entered into a strategic supply agreement with Meito Sangyo to develop and market VivoTrax, a superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle coated with carboxydextran, as a […]
Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) is a relatively new technique that is just now entering commercialization. This in vivo imaging technology offers many unique features that distinguish it from other clinical and research imaging modes, such as MRI and CT. Although there are some commonalities with MRI, MPI is a very distinct imaging mode from MRI. […]
In the “2016 IBO Lab Equipment Design Awards” article on page 6 of the August 15 issue of IBO, the quotes regarding Miele Professional’s Flex Series undercounter glassware washers should have been attributed to Marion Anacker, International Product manager at Laboratory Products Miele Professional, not to Deborah Ruriani. Additionally, on page 7, Atago’s VISCO instrument […]
In January, when IBO’s original forecast was published (see IBO 1/15/16), a great deal of information about the fourth quarter of 2015 was still unavailable, much less anything regarding the coming year. However, six months into 2016, additional information can be brought to bear on IBO’s overall baseline forecasting of the market for the year. […]
NGS technology and utilization have shown rapid progress, including application for clinical diagnostics in areas such as noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) and oncology. However, significant challenges remain for the routine use of the technology in diagnostic testing labs. A paper published earlier this year in Applied & Translational Medicine entitled, “Barriers to Clinical Adoption of […]
Columbus, OH 7/28/16, Washington, DC 7/29/16—Mettler-Toledo, the largest provider of lab weighing instruments, has agreed to acquire US-based Henry Troemner for $96 million. Henry Troemner supplies lab equipment, weights and weight calibration. The company stated that the purchase would expand its offering of basic lab products distributed under the Ohaus brand, and make it a […]
Changchun, China 7/22/16; Providence, RI 3/31/16—Chinese pharmaceutical company Jilin Zixin Pharmaceutical Industrial has signed an “investment framework agreement” to invest $6.0 million in Nabsys 2.0, according to a Google translation of the company’s website and a report in the Providence Journal. Nabsys 2.0 develops whole-genome mapping technology to electronically analyze very long DNA molecules with […]
Washington, DC 7/2/16; Washington, DC 7/25/16—Danaher has announced new reporting segments following the spin off of Fortive (see IBO 12/31/15) on July 2. Publicly held Fortive consists of Danaher’s former Test & Measurement, and Industrial Technologies (excluding Product Identification) segments, as well as the Retail/Commercial Petroleum platform. Beginning in the third quarter, the new reporting […]
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