Company Announcements In February, publicly held Japanese firm SCREEN Holdings acquired Japanese-based Alpha MED Scientific, the producer of the MED64 microelectrode array system for the measurement of extracellular field potential. Applied Biophysics named ibidi USA as a representative for US and Canada. BioAxial, developer of Conical Diffraction Microscopy, named Georges Tabary as president and CEO […]
Company Announcements Cepheid’s 2015 Non-Clinical revenue declined 1.2% to $28.7 million, or 5% of total revenues. North America Non-Clinical sales grew 11.0% to $27.6 million due to increased grant and collaboration revenues. International Non-Clinical sales fell 75.0% to $1.0 million. Non-Clinical revenue is also expected to decline in 2016. In February, Cepheid named Warren Kocmond, […]
Company Announcements DKSH signed in March an exclusive marketing, sales, distribution and after-sales service agreement with China-based Rigol Scientific for Malaysia for HPLC systems and UV-Vis spectrometers. Phenomenex announced in April that its Indian business grew 15% in 2015. Analytik Jena announced in April the sale of its Optics business to NOBLEX, a subsidiary of […]
Company Announcements Bruker announced that Eurofins Scientific and the Bruker-led Honey Consortium will harmonize their honey profiling models and released an updated Honey Profiling module for Bruker’s NMR FoodScreener. In April, INFORS HT became the sole distributor of aquila biolabs’ Cell Growth Quantifier for noninvasive online monitoring of biomass in shake flasks. ASD launched an […]
French President François Hollande has announced the cancellation of over half of the government’s proposed budget cuts to scientific research. Originally, the government was planning to make reductions totaling €256 million ($200 million) in the research and higher education sectors. In May, many leaders in the scientific community protested that the budget cuts would adversely […]
Last month, the UK announced the formation of the United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding organization. The body is made up of the country’s seven Research Councils, Innovate UK and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), and will work autonomously from the government in allocating funding for research and innovation. UKRI is […]
Following the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff last month, interim President Michel Temer combined the country’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) with the telecommunications and internet regulations ministry. Brazilian scientists have been protesting the integration, which they believe will greatly debilitate scientific R&D. Since 2013, authorized funding for the MCTI has been […]
For the first time in 40 years, the US Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) has been revised, with the new law making it simpler for the EPA to regulate harmful chemicals. Since the creation of the TSCA in 1976, the EPA has regulated only five chemicals, likely due to the limited amount of time the […]
In 2015, spending on cancer medicines reached $107 billion, an 11.5% increase in constant dollars. Globally, over 500 companies are focusing on oncology development, with 511 companies pursuing a Late Phase active pipeline and 379 firms with drugs in Phase II development. Of the 511 companies, oncology drug development made up 49% of collective R&D. […]
Last month, the US government launched the public-private National Microbiome Initiative (NMI) to research microbiomes in different ecosystems. The three recommended areas of focus are: interdisciplinary research, to further understanding about the relationship between microbiomes and their ecosystems; platform technologies, to increase collaboration and access to research data; and workforce expansion, to encourage engagement in […]
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