Demand for lasers in biotechnology applications presents new challenges to laser suppliers in $100M market.

(PRWEB) February 22, 2004 --Research and Markets announces the addition of this exciting new report entitled "Laser Markets for Biotechnology Applications" to its offerings.

Testing for infectious diseases and the promise of more rapid and cost effective drug discovery are driving a $35 billion global biomedical testing market. The pursuit of lower cost, higher throughput instrumentation coupled with higher capital expenditures by pharmaceutical and bio-research organizations will continue to drive biotechnology instrumentation market demand as well as demand for laser sources.

The market for lasers used in biotechnology instrumentation applications is projected to be in excess of $100M for 2004, and growing demand for lasers deployed in biotechnology applications has presented new challenges to laser suppliers.

This report details OEM laser opportunities as they relate to Biotechnology Instrumentation applications. This report focuses on the largest volume applications for lasers used in biotechnology instrumentation. It is intended as a strategic overview of OEM laser market opportunities and provides perspectives on the applications and technologies that comprise the overall market. The three major types of laser technology discussed in this report are solid state lasers, gas lasers and semiconductor diode lasers.

Applications overviewed include DNA Sequencers, Fluorescence Imagers, Phosphor Imagers, Gel Readers, Densitometers, Real Time PCR, Flow Based SNP, Genetic Array Scanners, MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry, Capillary Electrophoresis, Flow Cytometers/Scanning Flow Cytometers, Hematology, Scanning Laser Microscopy, Raman Spectroscopy/Microscopy and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)

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