About Us Reports Knowledge Center Services Blog IBO Newsletter Login LENS ON THE SCIENTIFIC MARKET Key findings from our industry experts. PHARMA/BIO TRENDS SUPPORTING DEMAND FOR ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTATION October 25, 2021/in Blog, Featured Articles 1 /by Amethyst Holder Implementing the appropriate laboratory instrumentation to support therapeutic development is crucial to the process of drug discovery. Life science and analytical instrumentation facilitates pharmaceutical R&D throughout these stages. SDi has observed the dynamics of the pharma/bio sector demand for instrumentation to support innovative biologics, small molecule drugs, regenerative pharmaceuticals, and biopharmaceuticals. Most of these drug […] Read more → TRENDS IN THE LABORATORY INSTRUMENT SERVICE MARKET September 29, 2021/in Blog, Featured Articles 2 /by Ivan Gandayuwana The servicing of analytical and life science instrumentation is vital to maintaining instrument performance capabilities and maximizing the life of costly lab assets. Whether provided by the original instrument manufacturer or by a third-party service provider, the instrument service market includes all service contracts and any replacement parts installed during servicing. Other services like software […] Read more → MESA LABS ACQUISITION OF AGENA BIOSCIENCE SHOWS IMPORTANCE OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS September 24, 2021/0 Comments/in Blog, Featured Articles 3 /by Wes Bova Clinical laboratory diagnostics has become an important area of investment and business transactions. Recently, Mesa Laboratories, a biotech company focused on quality control solutions for pharmaceutical, healthcare, and medical devices, announced the acquisition of Agena Bioscience for a cash purchase price of $300 million. According to the press release, Mesa is expected to pay for […] Read more → LABORATORY CONSUMABLES A MAJOR AREA OF INDUSTRY ACQUISITION ACTIVITY August 31, 2021/in Blog /by Michael Tice While M&A and IPO activity tends to ebb and flow in the laboratory industry, the current trend seems to be on the upswing. Just over the past few weeks, there seems to be a hotbed of activity particularly in the area of laboratory consumables. Most notably, near the end of July, PerkinElmer announced a $5.25 […] Read more → CELL & GENE THERAPIES: CROS AND CMOS BRIDGE THE GAP FROM INNOVATION TO APPROVAL May 7, 2021/in Blog /by Alice Kan Cell and gene therapy (CGT) is a rapidly evolving field producing powerful new treatments for cancers and genetic diseases, with promising developments expanding into autoimmune disease, cardiovascular disease, musculoskeletal disease, and many others as well. The CGT field has generated great interest and hope among researchers, patient groups, and regulators, which has led to huge […] Read more → NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING, DIAGNOSTICS, AND COVID VARIANTS April 5, 2021/in Blog /by Amethyst Holder Testing has been at the forefront of public health efforts and challenges since the beginning of the pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19 disease. By April last year, it became increasingly clear that testing would be crucial to public health and safety. However, global testing capacities substantially lagged behind demand as shortages […] Read more → COVID-19 TESTING AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL – DIGITAL PCR IS A KEY TOOL March 30, 2021/0 Comments/in Blog /by Alice Kan This month marked the anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaration of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak as a pandemic. Virtually all aspects of normal life and business were quickly disrupted by the novel and deadly coronavirus as it spread across the world. But researchers and the analytical instrumentation companies that supply them rose to the occasion. […] Read more → ACADEMIA DURING COVID-19 AND BEYOND March 19, 2021/0 Comments/in Blog /by Chris Ortego The coronavirus pandemic greatly disrupted every aspect of the economy with the analytical instrumentation market being no exception. From new system sales to consumables, nearly every product type and end market for analytical instrumentation was negatively impacted by the pandemic, although some key technologies for the fight against COVID-19 saw a paradoxical boom. One of […] Read more → INSTRUMENT BUSINESS OUTLOOK RELEASES FORECAST ISSUE January 21, 2021/in Blog /by Justin Dudash Instrument Business Outlook estimates the Analytical Instruments and Lab Products Industry is expected to grow at 9.4% in 2021. Is your business best positioned to take advantage of opportunities in this massive market? That’s the results from the 2021 IBO Annual Review and Industry Forecast Issue as an accurate source for predictions, news, and information […] Read more → GOOGLE’S DEEPMIND MAKES A QUANTUM LEAP IN SOLVING THE PROTEIN FOLDING PROBLEM December 10, 2020/in Blog /by Michael Tice Artificial Intelligence has made something of a breakthrough in the prediction of protein structures. The results came about as part of the 14th Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction, a friendly contest and conference organized by the Protein Structure Prediction Center with sponsorship from the US NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH/NIGMS). 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