Business Planning
Beckman Coulter, Inc. announced today the completion of the acquisition of Olympus' lab-based diagnostics business.
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Biotech was "hot" in July driven by drug data, positive drug sales/earnings and partnering and M&A deals. As a result, the Burrill Biotech Select Index posted a solid monthly gain of 6.5 percent
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Agilent Technologies Inc. and Varian Inc. today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition by Agilent of Varian, a leading worldwide supplier of scientific instrumentation and associated consumables for life science and applied market applications.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory has received $212 million for environmental cleanup activities under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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Alberta, Canada will be home to a new research and product development center and state-of-the-art Hitachi microscopes.
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Academic labs attract stimulus money but funding challenges remain
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In the future, Europe will not play a significant role in the world if it is not a powerhouse for scientific and technological advances
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June employment data from the Department of Labor show that job losses in the chemical sector have accelerated during 2009. Preliminary numbers indicate that the industry employs 41,300 fewer workers than at the same time a year earlier
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LabVantage Solutions, Inc. will acquire Life Technologies Corporations SQL*LIMS business, uniting the premier thin-client LIMS, SAPPHIRE, with a significant global footprint of experienced LIMS professionals.
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South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds paid a visit to UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab recently to get a feel for the type of research operation the campus and the lab plan to build at his state's famed Homestake gold mine.
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NIST has announced that it is establishing a financial assistance program to help selected institutions develop and implement a NIST measurement science and engineering fellowship program.
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Increased visibility of laboratory operations to management can be unnerving, especially for managers who have previously been more focused on the science than the business of the laboratory. To prepare for increased exposure, managers must develop a strategy and a realistic implementation plan to enable their operations to meet or exceed their organizations' demands.
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