Articles from Instrument Business Outlook (December 15, 2005)

Title	Author	Type	Words
ABB.			52
Academia: the Association of University Technology Managers' (AUTM) "AUTM U.S. Licensing Survey: FY: 2004" reported almost 25% growth in technology transfer as 462 new companies based on academic research were launched in fiscal 2004, reversing the declines of the previous two years.			151
Affymetrix and Agilent pursue new microarray markets.			2299
Africa: at a recent meeting of the 14-country Southern African Development Community (SADC), members agreed to work to coordinate their scientific policies and infrastructures.		Brief Article	64
Ambion is providing the EU's MitoCheck research consortium.			17
Ambion launched the Silencer CellReady siRNA Libraries in a pre-plated.			19
Analytical Spectral Devices received an order for five RxSpec drug verification systems for use.			22
Applera and Genetic Technologies announce settlement.			217
As part of a program to consolidate a number of functional areas under one management structure for its Chemicon and Upstate units, Serologicals plans to reduce new product introduction time from 9-12 months to 6-9 months; increase the number of new products from 1,200 in 2004 to more than 1,500 annually, beginning in 2005; and increase the average 12-month revenue per new product from $6,000 in 2004 to over $10,500 in 2007.			97
Assay Designs acquired Stressgen Bioreagents.			12
Axiom Analytical and Symbion Systems introduced Symbion-DX.			25
Bio-Rad and Applera discuss settlement.			97
Brown University granted NABsys, a single-molecule biophysics company.			19
Bruker AXS.		Brief Article	65
Bruker AXS.			16
Corning.			15
Datalog Technology.			25
Discrete analyzers: a force in environmental analysis.			883
Equipment/consumables index: healthy quarterly growth.			2020
EU: pressured by the European Commission, the European Investment Bank (EIB) will attempt to address the financial gap faced by EU biotech firms.			229
Fluorotechnics, Sigma-Aldrich.			19
ForteBio.			33
GBC Scientific Equipment.			13
GE Healthcare.			25
In August, precision measurement firm TSI Instruments acquired Tekran.			21
In July, SII NanoTechnology, a Seiko Instruments subsidiary, began mass production of its SEA 1000A x-ray fluorescence (XRF) and SFF9100X x-ray coating thickness gauges at its Chinese-based subsidiary.			39
In July, Techne's R&D Systems subsidiary acquired Fortron Bio Science, a developer and manufacturer of antibodies, antigens and other biological reagents, and BiosPacific, a supplier of biologicals to in vitro diagnostic and immunodiagnostic kit manufacturers, for an aggregate of $20 million in cash.			56
Invitrogen acquires cell expansion technology and provides forecast.			216
Invitrogen Drug Discovery Solutions entered into a collaborative research agreement on kinase chemical biology with Medisyn Technology.			27
Invitrogen opened a 1,000 square meter bioproduction facility for bovine sera products and reagents.			22
Japanese firms Medical & Biological Laboratories (MBL) and DNAVEC established Beijing B & M Biotech.			33
Los Alamos National Laboratory purchased a custom-engineered XRD system from Rigaku/MSC.			30
Lyncean Technologies, a developer of tunable compact x-ray light sources.			43
Market profile: bioanalyzers.			422
Mathis Instruments.			22
MetriGenix, maker of Flow-thru-Chip technology for gene expression profiling.			21
MKS Instruments acquires software firm Umetrics AB.			201
MKS Instruments.			22
NextGen Sciences.			17
OI Analytical.			11
Open Biosystems became the exclusive distributor of Covalys Biosciences AG's intracellular and in vitro protein labeling kits in the US.			23
Oxford Instruments.			10
PANalytical.			29
PerkinElmer acquires compliance and validation services firm.			115
Petrolab, a unit of AMETEK Test & Calibration Instruments.			19
Pharmaceutical: Theranostics, the coupling of diagnostics and therapeutics, could replace the blockbuster drug model.			161
Physical Sciences and Heath Consultants launched the Remote Methane Leak Detector.			20
Picarro.			14
R&D: according to a new study by Booz Allen Hamilton, greater R&D spending does not translate into better company performance.			189
Rigaku/MSC.			22
Romania's National Nuclear Research Institute and Poland's Polytechnik Lodzka installed GBC Scientific Equipment.			15
Serologicals' Update subsidiary is collaborating with CXR Biosciences to establish in vitro screens.			21
Slight R&D increase for five US federal agencies.			880
Solexa.			28
SPECTRO.			25
Tecan.			22
The bottom line.		Illustration	556
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard increased its installed base of Applied Biosystems.			22
The European Commission funded a two-year cooperative research project to develop Array Based Sequencing-by-Synthesis technology.			54
The National Institute of Genomic Medicine of Mexico and Applied Biosystems established a sequencing and genotyping unit for collaborative research studies.			36
Thermo Electron.			27
Thermo Electron.			33
Thermo Electron.			14
Thermo Electron.			23
UK: last month, the UK's Office of National Statistics released its report on 2004 business R&D based on a survey of 4,354 UK businesses.		Brief Article	250
Under a two-year, 1.5 million [euro] ($1.8 million) collaboration, the Technical Research Center of Finland will work with GlaxoSmithKline.			29
Under an alliance, Millipore and Gen-Probe will exclusively develop nucleic acid testing products for rapid microbiological and virus monitoring in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries.			31
VisiGen Biotechnologies received a three-year, $4.2 million grant and Nanofluidics received a three-year, $6.6 million grant from the US National Human Genome Research Institute to develop technologies for sequencing the genome at a cost of $1,000.			72
Whatman.			12