Improved performance in Bayer AG’s Life Science business helped its profit jump 14 percent in the second quarter. On Wednesday, the Germany-based company reported a net profit of 953 million euros ($1.28 billion) in the quarter, ...
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Implantable heart pump maker HeartWare International recently announced that it has tapped a former Boston Scientific executive as its new chief medical officer, effective September 1. Katrin Leadley, MD, was most recently chief medical ...
Eric Kessler, Bioscience Director for the Center for Advanced Professional Studies at the Blue Valley School District in Overland Park, Kan., has been recognized in the Honorable Mention category of the 2014 Presidential Innovation Award ...
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The Bayer Group started the year 2014 with encouraging growth in sales and earnings. "Our Life Science businesses continued their dynamic development and achieved slight earnings increases despite significant negative currency effects," ...
Picodeon, a Finnish coating technology specialist announced that Fergus Clarke has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer. Clarke brings over 25 years of global high technology management experience. His appointment comes at a point ...
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In late March, vertically integrated photonics product maker Thorlabs Inc of Newton, NJ, USA announced a greenfield initiative to start the new business unit Thorlabs Ultrafast Optoelectronics (Thorlabs-UFO). The team will focus on ...
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Succinity GmbH, the joint venture between Corbion Purac and BASF for the production and commercialization of biobased succinic acid, has announced the successful start-up of its first commercial production facility. The plant, located at ...
Chinese dairy producer Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group has partnered with Wageningen University to establish a new R&D center in the Netherlands. Wageningen University and its R&D center are the leading scientific research ...
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AMSBIO has launched CancerSeq™ - a new range of genetically characterised FFPE tissue samples. CancerSeq™ samples are prepared from genomic DNA extracted from the FFPE tumour tissues and validated by Next Generation ...
Interview conducted by April Cashin-Garbutt, BA Hons (Cantab) What is nanoparticle analysis and what biomedical applications does it have? Nanoparticle analysis is a very important field. Basically, we live in a world that is ...
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Last week nanotechnology research institute imec of Leuven, Belgium celebrated its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1984 as a non-profit organization, imec has grown to be a multi-disciplinary expertise center in the fields of semiconductor ...
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Multivac Marking & Inspection will exhibit new label dispensers that feature high labeling precision and labeling speed at Interpack to be held from 8 to 14 May 2014 in Dusseldorf, Germany. The label dispensers are compatible with new ...
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Axxam (Milan), a leading provider of discovery services including assay development for high-throughput screening, and Cellectis bioresearch (Paris), the cell engineering expert, have started a collaboration to offer to the Life Science ...
The president of the Canola Council of Canada says she realizes the Council's plans for increasing canola production are ambitious, but she argues they are still realistic. The CCC announced last week that it's aiming for 26 million ...
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"The United States stands on the cusp of a dramatic revival and rejuvenation propelled by an amazing wave of technological innovation," writes Stanford researcher Vivek Wadhwa in a recent editorial in The Washington Post. The basic notion ...
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