Lab Management
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced on May 14 one billion dollars of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds have been awarded to construct, repair and renovate scientific research laboratories and related facilities across the country.
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Quantachrome Instruments, a leading manufacturer and supplier of powder and porous materials characterization instruments, has long offered measurement services through its application laboratory located at its corporate headquarters in Boynton Beach, Florida.
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Carl Zeiss Ltd. has agreed to acquire Imaging Associates Ltd. as part of its continuing investment into customer support and service delivery.
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One of the best approaches for proactively managing obsolescence is to develop and maintain a multiyear capital plan that explicitly designates a specific portion for instrument replacement each year.
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Lab managers will face an increasing challenge in the next decade managing a rising tide of data. To realize the full benefit and value of these diverse and voluminous data requires effective data management techniques, institutional arrangements, and policies.
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Despite the vigilance of federal, state and local regulators and of accreditation organizations that evaluate and certify laboratories, the development and maintenance of quality in laboratories are constant concerns.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, and Professor Bruno Domon, director of the new Luxembourg Clinical Proteomics unit (LCP), announced on April 22 a collaboration to develop workflows that overcome current bottlenecks in biomarker discovery and assay development for clinical proteomics research.
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PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Signature Genomic Laboratories, LLC, a diagnostic genetic testing company based in Spokane, Washington.
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Biotage, a global leader in automated flash purification, tools and technology for medicinal and analytical chemistry, announced it has recently been awarded U.S. patent 7686959: Control system and Method for Flash Separation.
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Agilent Technologies Inc. and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), today announced they have established a new chip-scale micro- and nanophotonic- systems testing facility on the UCSD campus.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announced in March that it is providing the Scottish Metabolomics Facility (ScotMet) with cutting-edge technology to advance the field of metabolomics. ScotMet is funded by the Scottish Universities Life Science Alliance (SULSA) and is a state-of-the-art facility run jointly by the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde.
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Malvern Instruments Limited (Malvern, UK) has acquired certain assets of Swedish rheology company Reologica Instruments AB (Lund, Sweden), which went into administration on 23rd March 2010. Financial terms have not been disclosed.
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