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Articles in August 31, 2008 issue of Instrument Business Outlook
- Academia
- Big things come in small packages
- Q2 results shine in gloomy economy
- Bruker enters microscopy market
- Horiba Instruments acquires maker of surface area analyzers
- Applied bio and Invitrogen set date for shareholder votes
- Genetix names new CEO
- Profit taking makes for mixed IBO stock indexes
- Smiths Detection
- Smiths Detection and Torion Technologies announced a strategic partnership in August
- Ahura Scientific
- In May, the US Transportation Security Administration certified Reveal Imaging Technologies' dual-row CT-80DR explosives detection system for screening checked baggage
- In June, Australia's publicly listed QRSciences acquired US-listed Diversified Opportunities
- In June, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated in part a 2006 jury verdict against L-3 Communications for breach of fiduciary duty and for fraud that awarded OSI $126 million
- Implant Sciences
- AMETEK Advanced Measurement Technology's ORTEC business released
- Smiths Detection
- Smith Detection
- Thermo Fisher Scientific
- ICx Technologies
- The US Department of Homeland Security awarded a $9.1 million Phase IIIX contract
- Metals
- India
- LifeSpan BioScience
- Embryome Sciences entered into a manufacturing and distribution agreement with Lifeline Cell Technology
- Embryome Sciences acquired an exclusive license to Advanced Cell Technology
- Calypte Biomedical
- Invitrogen and the Genome Quebec and Montreal Health Institute announced a collaboration
- In July, Sigma-Aldrich partnered with India's Metahelix Life Sciences
- In July, Lonza became the exclusive distributor of Bar Harbor BioTechnology
- Roche Applied Science
- Lonza Bioscience
- SuperArray Bioscience changed its name to SABiosciences
- BlueGnome
- Millipore
- Invitrogen
- Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Thermo Fisher Scientific
- GE Healthcare
- Norgen Biotek
- The Beijing Genome Institute and PentaBase ApS are developing real-time
- Roche Diagnostics granted a license to BIOTECON Diagnostics GmbH for the development
- Merck KGaA began selling BIOTECON Diagnostics
- In May, BIOTECON Diagnostics licensed rights to Applied Biosystems
- In April, QIAGEN NV entered into a license and supply agreement for BioHelix's Helicase Dependent Amplification technology
- Applied DNA Sciences and Smiths Detection signed a memorandum of understanding for Smiths to provide Applied DNA Sciences with exclusive use of the Bio-seeq PLUS platform for authentication, anticounterfeiting and antidiversion
- China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine named DuPont Qualicon
- In July, Cepheid revised its forecast for 2008 sales from $182-$189 million to $173-$177 million, with product sales expected to be $164-$167 million, due to lower-than-expected noncore clinical partner purchases from BD and Roche and lower Biothreat sal
- Roche Diagnostics licensed its melting curve technology to Agilent
- Lonza
- Fluidigm
- Fluidigm
- Invitrogen
- Promega
- Applied Biosystems
- Techcomp acquires majority of Chinese supplier
- ICx Technologies
- Clinical
- R&D
- Korea
- Israel
- Hong Kong
- Market profile: asymetric-flow field flow fractionation
- The bottom line
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