Instrument Business Outlook

1. The bottom line.: data from recent industry financial reports. Dollar...
The Bottom Line Data from recent industry financial reports. Dollar amounts in millions. Company Period Ended Sales Chg. Op. Prof. Agilent Tech. 1Q 31-Dec $373.0 ...
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2. Market profile: multimode volatile extraction.
Volatile extraction techniques, which include headspace, purge and trap, and thermal desorbtion techniques, are a major accessory and aftermarket product for gas chromatographs (GCs). In ...
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3. Effective January 1, Invitrogen formed three divisions under its...
Effective January 1, Invitrogen formed three divisions under its BioDiscovery and BioProduction units: Life Sciences; Bio-Production Systems and Services; and Enabling Technologies (nanotechnology, imaging and ...
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4. In January, Applied Biosystems/MDS Sciex introduced the QSTAR Elite...
In January, Applied Biosystems/MDS Sciex introduced the QSTAR Elite LC/MS/MS System, a quadrupole time-of-flight system for proteomics and metabolomics, featuring the new Razor Detector and ...
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5. Under a collaboration agreement, PANATecs GmbH will apply Bruker Daltonik...
Under a collaboration agreement, PANATecs GmbH will apply Bruker Daltonik GmbH's CLINPROT tools for biomarker discovery, profiling and identification in the field of rheumatoid arthritis ...
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6. The 2006 ABRF meeting.
The core facility has been an important part of research and discovery. It typically houses highly skilled personnel and the most advanced technologies, many of ...
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7. Halma.
Halma reorganized its business units to be defined by markets rather than product types. The new Health and Analysis sector includes the former Optics and ...
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8. Oxford Instruments' six-month sales ended September 30, 2005 rose 12.7% to...
Oxford Instruments' six-month sales ended September 30, 2005 rose 12.7% to 75.3 million [pounds sterling] ($136.9 million), and orders totaled 80.9 million [pounds sterling] ($147.1 ...
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9. Avian flu response.
The rapid spread of the avian flu virus, or avain influenza A, (H5N1) has mobilized public health authorities worldwide and raised fears of a human ...
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10. Japan.
Japan: The US National Science Foundation reports that Japan's FY06 budget for Science & Technology dropped 0.1% to [yen] 3,573.3 billion ($31.3 billion). The budget ...
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