, a San Diego-based laboratory equipment reseller, announced the completion of a merger with Massachusetts-based Biodirect and Boston Microscopes to form Copia Scientific. The three-way merger will make Copia Scientific the nation’s largest, non-OEM lab equipment reseller, refurbisher and service provider in the industry, according to the Aug. 19 announcement. Founded in 2002, BioSurplus is […]
SAN DIEGO (CNS) – Drug use was at a 21-year high for adult males arrested and booked into local detention facilities in 2020, with methamphetamine and fentanyl posing some worrying trends, according to a San Diego Association of Governments report released Thursday. The new SANDAG report found 82% of males surveyed tested positive for at […]
Facebook on Thursday announced Horizon Workrooms, a new way for office workers to connect using virtual reality. Facebook spent about 2.5 years creating a way for up to 16 people to sit, as digital avatars of their real selves, around a conference table together. Facebook says this isn’t the metaverse, which is a digital world […]
Starting next month Americans will be able to get booster shots for the COVID-19 vaccine. Local immunologists talk about why they’re recommended. Meanwhile, the largest solar power generating facility in San Diego County is being built right next to the small east county town of Jacumba Hot Springs. But Jacumba residents overwhelmingly oppose the facility. […]
Two building industrial park planned Rendering courtesy of LPC West LPC West in a joint venture with a real estate fund advised by Crow Holdings Capital has acquired 12 acres of vacant land in Otay Mesa with plans to build a pair of industrial buildings to form an industrial park. The property is on […]