Articles from Instrument Business Outlook (September 30, 2006)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Abbott and Fisher Biosciences' Dharmacon unit are collaborating to develop new therapeutic agents based on RNAi.			22
Academia: a new Milken Institute report analyzes the 1998-2002 innovation activities of 683 universities in all academic fields using three performance indicators: number of publications, activity and impact. (Industry Watch).		Brief article	88
AMETEK.			16
Analytik Jena.		Brief article	52
AnaSpec.			26
Applied Biosystems and Promega settle legal disputes.			91
Bayer Healthcare granted Takara Bio's Clontech division an exclusive worldwide license.			41
Beckman Coulter.			15
Beckman Coulter.			19
Bruker AXS and Incoatec.			19
Caden Biosciences, formerly Cue Biotech, named Bill Checovich, Ph.D.			21
Calendo Phamaceuticals, a subsidiary of Arrowhead Research, selected Agilent.			20
Caliper Life Sciences.			17
Canada: Canada's Gross Domestic Expenditure on Research and Development (GERD) for 2006 is expected to rise 4.4% to Can$28.4 billion ($25.5 billion), up from Can$27.2 billion ($24.4 billion) in 2005.			130
Celsis International acquired In Vitro Technologies, a supplier of products and services.			22
Chemicals: observers disagree about when the current growth cycle in the chemicals industry will end. (Industry Watch).			177
China: The "China Green National Accounting Study Report 2004," released by the State Environmental Protection Administration of China (SEPA) and the National Bureau of Statistics in August, is the first time that environmentally adjusted GDP has been accounted for by China.			110
Cisbio International received a $1.9 million R&D grant from France's National Research Agency.			22
Endpoint: China.			319
Environnement SA.			64
EU: According to a draft report by the European Commission's Directorate-General Research, 72% of respondents believe that cooperation between publicly funded organizations (PROs) and their industrial partners was either "difficult" or "very difficult.".		Brief article	106
Evans Analytical Group acquired the operating assets and detector software of analytical lab.			18
Fuji Photo Film acquired Dimatix, a supplier of piezoelectric.			17
GE Analytical Instruments.			28
GE Healthcare extended its licensing agreement for Fisher BioImage's Green Fluorescence Protein technology (GFP).			52
GeneDetect.			24
Genetix.			24
Gentra, now part of QIAGEN.			33
Government: a report by the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine, commissioned by the FDA in response to recent drug safety controversies, calls for considerable changes in the Agency's structure and functions and lists 25 measures for improvement. (Industry Watch).		Brief article	91
Hamilton.			11
Horiba.			49
Hudson Control Group.			12
In April, HISCO Europe GmbH became the service department.			14
In August, Expression Pathology licensed Harvard University's AQUA.			20
In August, Optco Akquisitions GmbH, a trait of Qioptiq Group.			34
In August, Thermo Electron announced the 1,000th customer order for its ARL 4460 optical emission spectrometer, which was launched in 1994.			35
In July, Beckman Coulter adopted ARTEL's Multichannel Verification System.			29
In July, Distek, a manufacturer of dissolution testing systems, became a preferred provider in North America for dissolution instrumentation service under Agilent's Lab Resource Management program.			36
In June, CapitalBio became BioMachines' exclusive distributor.			13
In June, Oxford Instruments signed a formal Memorandum of Understanding.			24
In March, a management team and outside investors bought out Arun Technology from AMETEK.			34
Independent testing labs: consolidation continues.		Company overview	1928
Instruments' role in the biofuels roadmap.			1542
Integrated DNA Technologies makes acquisition.		Brief article	89
Invitrogen added Genetix's ClonePixFL technology to its process development services.			30
Japan: Although it did not go through, the attempted hostile takeover of Hokuetsu Paper by Oji Paper, Japan's biggest paper company, may be a sign of mergers and takeovers to come in Japan.			154
JEOL.			10
Kreatech Biotechnology BV.			9
LECO.			9
Magellan Biosciences.			24
Market profile: electroporation.			433
Molecular devices lowers third quarter guidance.			160
Oxford Diffraction.			20
PANalytical, a Spectris company, introduced the PIXcel, its second-generation solid-state x-ray detector for x-ray diffraction applications.			28
Pangene signed an exclusive license with Copenhagen Inventor Group in July.			23
PaR Systems, a provider of automation and material handling solution, acquired SSI Robotics in July for $400,000.			34
PerkinElmer.			38
Prime Synthesis.			37
Private equity firm invests in lab supplier.			168
R&D: according to IBM's 2005 survey of countries that receive investment from multinational companies for manufacturing, services and R&D, Europe attracted 39% of all projects, up from 35% last year, and Asia attracted 31%, down from 3%. (Industry Watch).		Brief article	146
Rigaku Innovative Technologies and PANalytical BV.			33
Rigaku.			10
Roper Industries acquires AC Analytical Controls.			78
Sigma-Aldrich settles with Enzo and Yale.			180
Sigma-Aldrich.			8
Sigma-Aldrich.			8
Spectris.			25
Spectro Analytical Instruments, an AMETEK company.			14
Strong end to third quarter for IBO consumables index.			3735
Symyx Technologies.			27
The bottom line.		Statistical table	538
Thermo acquires maker of online elemental analyzers.			103
Thermo Electron.			25
Thermo Electron.			21
Thermo Electron.			25
Thermo Electron.			27
TTP LabTech.			11
Under a multiyear collaboration agreement, Lentigen and Dharmacon will develop and manufacture lentiviral.			26
Under a worldwide OEM agreement, Illumina will market Hudson Control Group's Platecrane EX Microplate Robot.			22
Under an agreement with the University of Massachusetts Medical Schools' Proteomic Fractionation Group, BioMachines launched Applied Proteomics Services.			29
Xiril AG agreed to co-market Whatman's FTA technology for nucleic acids.			14