ST. LOUIS, — The Board of Directors of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) has elected Michael Marberry as a Director of the Company. Mr. Marberry (age 54) is President and CEO of J.M. Huber Corporation, a diversified, multinational supplier of engineered materials, natural resources and technology-based services to customers spanning many industries from paper and energy […]

At the 19th annual International Mass Spectrometry Conference (IMSC) today, AB SCIEX and the University of Wollongong (UOW) announced a research partnership to develop lipid analysis capabilities, including the most definitive and comprehensive identification of double bond position in lipids. This collaboration is part of AB SCIEX’s new Academic Partnership Program, which helps support academic […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the addition of negative and positive ion chemical ionization (CI) capabilities to its new high-performance Thermo Scientific TSQ 8000 triple quadrupole GC-MS system. The addition of chemical ionization to the TSQ™ 8000 GC-MS/MS increases analytical options available to the […]

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.– AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced a global initiative focused on biologics. This new initiative is in response to the fundamental shift of the pharmaceutical industry into biopharmaceutical development. AB SCIEX’s BiologicsFocus Initiative consists of four components: new product development; beta software evaluation program; one-on-one connections program; […]

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that it has entered into a comarketing agreement with Molecular Discovery Ltd. to provide biopharmaceutical researchers with an advanced metabolite-identification platform. The companies will comarket the combined assets of Agilent’s high-resolution liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) technology and Molecular Discovery’s Mass-MetaSite software to enable superior identification and analysis of […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., the world leader in serving science, today launched the Thermo Scientific National Target DP 9 mm C5000 series vial closure system. It is designed to virtually eliminate septa push-through while significantly enhancing productivity and flexibility. The new National Target DP 9 mm closure is based on Thermo […]

FRAMINGHAM, Mass –AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced the launch of the Eksigent ekspert™ nanoLC 400 system. The new Eksigent system is the world’s first plug-and-play liquid chromatography system that integrates nano LC and micro LC on the same platform, providing the broadest functionality with the benefits of both […]

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the pricing of a series of its senior notes in an aggregate principal amount of $400 million, in an underwritten, registered public offering. The notes will mature in October 2022 and will bear interest at an annual rate of 3.20 percent. The offering is expected to close on […]

TORRANCE, Calif.– Fasha Mahjoor, founder and CEO of Phenomenex, a separation sciences company, will leap off the 87th floor of The Shard in London, Europe’s tallest building, on the 3rd of September to raise funds for The Outward Bound Trust. Alongside a handful of other adventurous philanthropists and led by the Chairman of The Outward […]

BOULDER, CO–(Marketwire — InDevR announced today the release of the ViroPrep™ Allantoic Influenza (AI) system for determining the concentration of influenza grown in chicken eggs at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional approaches. ViroPrep AI is a two-step sample cleanup kit that can prepare samples taken directly from eggs for downstream analysis […]