They must be spinning it out to focus on the Gibco brand once they merge. Anyone want to buy a ton of fbs?
Hyclone is for sale?
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New Ventana IHC system?
Any info about the new IHC stainer from Roche Ventana? I heard they are showing the system to select customers.
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Icahn plans to buy stake in Hologic...
Hologic plans a poison pill. (GenomeWeb Daily News)
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Pfizer CTI ?
How are thngs looking at +3years?
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promotheus
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AdvanDx
Heard that the VC's have given up on this turkey. Management screwed this company up big time, revenues have crashed with no prospect of recovery. Heard they brought in a Marketing heavy hitter, but management refused to face all the truths, the poor guy pointed out across the board. Naturally he gets the axe first
Another one bites the dust.
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PerkinElmer more job cuts Nov 2013
Heard that there's going to be some considerable cuts in the European arm of PerkinElmer in Nov/Dec 2013 in addition to those already announced. Watch this space...
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AZ Charnwood Site New Occupants
Any idea who the mystery tenant might be? 300-400 jobs in the bioscience field.
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Owner-AstraZeneca-site-Loughborough-advanced/story-20222460-detail/story.html
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VWR to be sold?
Anyone heard the story that Sigma Aldrich, having lost out to Thermo on the Life Tech grab, are right now in discussion with Madison Dearborn to find out how cheaply they can get their hands on VWR?
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Ventana Brain Drain
I just concluded several major meetings with them and, wow, talk about clueless: the company is filled with lifers and their lackeys. God bless their soul if the need to find a real job outside of their crumbling castle. I found their head of Communications especially lacking.
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How are things going at Promega these days?
With the problems in various companies in the Madison area, I'm curious how Promega is doing. I'm most interested in moving into R&D, but I'm curious in general about Promega.
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DBS is at it again…so how many people have been laid off of Beckman this go around
So last Friday Dec 7th was the start of another round of layoff at Beckman Coulter. What areas are they cutting…I know service was one….anywhere else?
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DBS is at it again…so how many people have been laid off of Beckman this go around
So last Friday Dec 7th was the start of another round of layoff at Beckman Coulter. What areas are they cutting…I know service was one….anywhere else?
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DXH 800 Flow Cell issues
What's the deal? Replacing the flow cell every 2 weeks to fix Diff problem. Any word on what the REAL problem is????
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Siemens Versacell
What's the deal with this ? does it really integrated these two analyzers? I may be getting one soon.
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Randox
Random must be doing well. Just bought a new site in Antrim, wonder what their plans are?
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novavax
Anyone has insight into this company?
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Oxford Nanopore - any data in 2014?
Will any data be forthcoming next year? Has anyone seen any data this year?
Enquiring minds want to know.
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City of Hope Old Socks
I have it on good authority that the old socks with little or no grant money will finally be heading to the trash in 2014
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Generic Subject: Is there any hope for the future?
I have read many posts on this blog, about my own company, its DX competitors and about the Pharma companies as well, and I and others have noticed strong similarities.
All the big name companies are described the same.
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"Could we find a cure for
"Could we find a cure for cancer? Some cancers, yes. But then what would the pharma companies do that sell the drugs to treat that cancer?"
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Not all cancer research is done in big pharma, far from it. If these magical cures are out there pharma would not be able to suppress them.
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Does the Timwit drive a
Does the Timwit drive a vehicle that is gay pride blue?
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There is no hope. It's all
There is no hope. It's all about the money now.
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The decision to kill off
The decision to kill off Immulite was made by Siemens and probably before they even bought Bayer. The negotiations with Bayer were going on long before DPC was acquired. Knowing that they could wind up with two similar systems, they knew they would have to kill one of them. And they had to know which one and have a plan to phase it out long before they made the actual acquisitions. If nothing else, all of this was discussed in advance of purchases since the only reason for buying both Bayer and DPC was that they served somewhat different market segments. The decision was to keep Immulite around for as long as they could milk it and convert Immulite customers to Centaur. These are not the kind of decisions that Germany would trust to someone they didn't know very well and couldn't yet trust. The decision to buy DPC and then effectively kill Immulite was made in Germany and not Tarrytown. One of Siemens' biggest failures has been to create a single, cohesive division where there is trust among sites and a spirit of working together to get things done. The ongoing blame of Bayer people for Immulite's demise is just further proof.
Have you seen any proof of this 'high level master planning'? as 7 years down the line in Siemens I sure as hell haven't!!! To me it looks like the ship veered whichever way the latest pirate squad pulled the helm - which varied by country.
Whilst it would be reassuring, and shocking if not to assume that Siemens looked at all this before parting with billions but it simply didn't.. what do you think caused Peter (among other issues) to fall on his sword?
Even today we have no real plan of direction, we just keep stumbling along and looking busy tweaking and 'optimising' our processes (usually actually hindering them to be honest) and hoping the miracle happens.
We may be all good Christians at heart but the second-coming of Siemens DX is not even believed by the faithful in their hearts. Truth is we are waiting judgement day more than resurrection.
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Huh?
Huh?
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There is always hope. It's
There is always hope. It's just that it is decreasing exponentially year to year.
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There is always hope. It's
There is always hope. It's just that it is decreasing exponentially year to year.
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"The previous two posts have
"The previous two posts have been the only sane postings I've read this whole Holiday Season.
If DX employee's aren't preparing themselve for a possible layoff or site closure they have no one to blame but themselves.
There will be layoffs and some sites were already given notice months ago of a 1-2year shutdown.
Believe what you want but the direction DX is heading is already out there and documented."
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Do you know what you sound like, a disgruntled ex-employee screaming fire. So why don't you do siemens employees a favor and put your money where your mouth is by giving your credentials, who exactely got the shutdown notices, and where are all the documents you are basing your genious analyses on. Other wise put you foot in your month instead.
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No hope whatsoever
No hope whatsoever particularly those losers who work in certain areas of the soon to be defunct Life Technologies.
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No hope whatsoever.
No hope whatsoever. Especially for those poor losers working in certain areas of the soon to be defunct Life Technologies.
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So the equation of hope is
So the equation of hope is f(x)= 1/(hope x (365-1) x 10^23)
Got it!
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Wishing my former colleagues
Wishing my former colleagues the very best in 2014. To be honest, life is better when we're no longer together.
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Wishing my former colleagues
Wishing my former colleagues the very best in 2014. To be honest, life is better when we're no longer together.
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Digital Pathology is a flash
Digital Pathology is a flash in the pants term and "micro economy" that will run its course and die akin to Y2K, savings and loan, and the past real estate boom and bust.
Sure, companies like ACD and Aperio will make some bucks and run, but it is we, the end user clinicians that will be left behind.
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Yes. That was the plan all
Yes. That was the plan all along. DPC was bought for the products they had, but not for any further development other than finishing up a few assays which would ultimate be destined to be put on Centaur. The plan for Immulite was fairly simple and straightforward: make all the money we can on the existing installed instrument base, add a few assays at most, and then gradually convert customers to Centaur. Since, at the time of purchase, there was very little overlap between the Centaur and Immulite market (e.g., the two systems did not really compete with one another) the decision to keep one and let the other fade away made perfect sense. Why Centaur over Immulite? It was assumed that if Centaur was big in developed countries, it would be viewed as a step forward by customers in smaller, less developed countries, whereas the reverse would not be true.
The plan made a lot of business sense. There was never a need to share the long range plans with employees; they were just expected to carry out the details. What the employees saw however was not the plan as intended, but a plan who's implementation was botched at every detail. Siemens just assumed they could snap their fingers and have reagents magically move from LA to Llanberis. They assumed that Tarrytown could just step in and quickly move assays to Centaur. They assumed that LA would be eager to cooperate with their own demise (for the good of the organization). They had no clue as to how complex these things are and diagnostics is not a 'one size fits all' business. They took no steps to ensure the process was being managed by people who were experienced and knew what they were doing.
So, no, you didn't see the actual plan and it was never presented to employees. But I can assure you that that was the plan and if you take a top level look at things you can see that Siemens spent a lot of time trying to implement it and see the many things they did to that end (for instance, still making Immulite available, but pretty much hiding it at their booth at the trade shows or the fact that they initially wanted to send Centaur systems to LA for their chemists to put DPC methods on Centaur, even though that attempt was very short-lived).
It is always very difficult to accept that, sometimes in the business world, an asset that is highly prized by its own people, is bought for purposes other than continuing the products or the excellence and skills of that asset. This was the case with DPC, and as crazy as it might sound to some, DPC was never part of Siemens' long term plan in diagnostics, but just a means to an end.
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I would be happy to provide
I would be happy to provide the same level of credentials that you do, first with some proof of whatever or whoever you say you are. In case you haven't noticed, this is a rumour mill, not a news service. There is no requirement here to reveal sources or to even double- or triple-check on information.
Some posts are from disgruntled employees for sure. Others could easily be from former employees with no personal ax to grind other than their disappointment at what Siemens has done with a company they remember fondly. Still other posts could simply be from industry observers who have no direct association with Siemens whatsoever.
When rumours turn out to be true, the source becomes fairly irrelevant. I remember a number of early posts suggesting that DPC and their product line would ultimately be shut down. There was much discussion of the wisdom of such a move and much finger pointing as to who made such an outrageously stupid decision. But the facts are there now. It is hard to argue that Siemens hasn't been trying to shut down Immulite an LA for years, nor is it hard to argue that Siemens has made a total mess of this attempt through their incompetence. This has nothing to do with anyone's level of gruntlement. It is just an example of a rumour or prediction that seems to have stood the test of time regardless of its wisdom or implementation.
As for employees who are not as gruntled as you would like, this state of mind is often justified and well earned by a company and Siemens is no different from any other company in this respect. Sometimes disgruntled employees are just bad actors and the company is blameless for their state of mind. Too bad. That's life. It comes with the territory of having employees. A good, healthy company can easily withstand the negative comments of a few bad actors. It is only the bad companies that get all freaky when bad things are said about it.
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There is no hope anywhere.
There is no hope anywhere. We are all doomed. I can assure you that anyone who reads this thread will eventually die.
The only options are to either repent, or spend what time remains enjoying yourself as much as possible.
Happy New Year.
(Please try not to be too anal by taking this post very seriously)
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This is basically what
This is basically what happens when someone finally sticks their head out from the sand and is unable to deal with the reality of their situation.
Who received notification of a 2014-2016 shutdown? Did someone say Brookfield.
But...but...we want facts? Centaur is drowning in backorder issues now. Immulite already removed 30 assays from its menu which could not be made to work again.
Oh, lets not forget about the $5million contract lost with Immulite as well.
Sales? You must have missed the meeting where management informed everyone how our competitors are killing DX. The slideshow was presented at all DX sites. You might have taken the day off.
A lot more things can be said here but it might be best to insert your head back into the sand before you totally freakout.
Happy New Year.
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Do you know what you sound
Do you know what you sound like, a disgruntled ex-employee screaming fire.
In Siemens DX case, the term disgruntled ex-employee is probably a redundancy as, for the most part, is the term disgruntled employee.
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As Carlyle is unlikely to the
As Carlyle is unlikely to the remotest understanding of O-CD's business and therefore cannot make a worthwhile Due Diligence, its only recourse to improve ROI is 'cost-cutting'. I.e. sack a bunch of those who are actually making stuff.
The return of Cathie the Terminator as Head Honcho should set the seal on the business.
Danaher is an appropriate model. As is Bain.
These people are buggering-up perfectly good medical companies.
O-CD would be marginally better off with GEHC. And that is saying something.
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