Instrument Business Outlook

South Africa: According to South Africa's "National Survey of Research and Experimental Development: the country's gross domestic expenditure...

The quality and safety of all types of food products is already a major issue around the world,...

Eden Prairie, MN 9/30/08--SurModics, a surface modification and drug delivery technologies company, has acquired GE Healthcare's CodeLink Activated...

India: India's Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) is preparing plans to enable foreign drug companies to conduct...

Energy: According to Hydrocarbon Processing's HPI Construction Boxscore Survey, the total number of hydrocarbon projects worldwide grew 12%...

Food: New rules for labeling fresh produce and meat by country of origin went into effect in the...

Biotechnology: This month, the FDA issued draft guidance on regulating genetically engineered animals (GE) for a 60-day comment...

Clinical: Point-of-care testing (POCT) is contributing to the growth of the diagnostics product market. In the first six...

On Monday, September 29, the US House of Representatives rejected the $700 billion bailout package, sending the Dow...

San Diego, CA 9/23/08--Sequenom has agreed to acquire the Center for Molecular Medicine (CMM), a Clinical Laboratory Improvement...

New York, NY 9/22/08; South San Francisco, 9/26/08--Citing market instability, Fluidigm has withdrawn its registration statement for an...

Carlsbad, CA 9/16/08; Carlsbad, CA and Foster City, CA 9/17/08; Carlsbad, CA 9/26/08--Invitrogen has completed the syndication of...

Chalfont St. Giles, England 9/30/08; Boston, MA 9/30/08--GE Healthcare has acquired MicroCal, a developer and manufacturer of microcalorimeters,...

In the second installment of IBO's twice yearly look at new laboratories, we examine nonprofit projects in the...

An X-ray diffraction (XRD) system transmits X-ray beams to a sample (generally a single crystal, metallic solid or...