CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA – Though the U.S. Federal government implemented budget sequestration on March 1st, canceling $85 billion in budgetary resources across the Federal government for the remainder of the 2013 fiscal year, U.S. academic researchers spend on life science reagents and instruments decreased as early as October, 2012, according to Percepta’s recent benchmarking study.

The study objectives were to understand…

In February 2013 we polled our panel of fluorescent imaging reagent users regarding their anticipated laboratory budget. Data reveals that commercial users anticipate a slight increase compared to academic users. As shown in the table, 24.1% of commercial users of fluorescent imaging reagents expect their budget to increase over the next 12 months, vs. 17.6% of academic users (a…