SAN JOSE, Calif. –– European laboratories testing feed and food for dioxins and dioxin-like substances now have lower-cost, smaller-footprint alternatives to high-resolution mass spectrometers (HRMS) for confirming levels of the toxic contaminants, thanks to a new European Union regulation. Thermo Fisher Scientific worked closely with national reference labs (NRLs) in the European Union to support […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -– Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the 7200B Quadrupole Time of Flight (Q-TOF) Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometer (GC/MS) System. The system replaces the company’s most advanced GC/QTOF, the 7200A, with new capabilities that will significantly boost laboratory performance. “The Agilent 7200B Quadrupole Time of Flight GC/MS system offers reliability and […]

Shimadzu Corporation announces the release of the industry’s first glycolipid-specific library, containing information on 258 types of glycolipids. This library was developed through joint research with Dr. Akemi Suzuki, Director of the Institute of Glycoscience at Tokai University. Library allows even those without specialized expertise to prepare samples, specify analytical conditions, analyze data, and characterize […]

Houston, TX., USA –– PAC, a leading global provider of advanced analytical instruments for laboratories and online process applications, recently welcomed Samuel Wong as the Vice-President of Sales for Asia Pacific. Mr. Wong has over 25 years of sales experience in the oil and gas, marine, power generation, and transport industries. He joins PAC from […]

Männedorf, Switzerland — With clinical laboratories increasingly turning to high throughput LC-MSMS analysis, laboratory automation specialist Tecan and RECIPE Chemicals and Instruments GmbH, a leading manufacturer of IVD/CE diagnostic products, have announced a co-marketing agreement for automation of LC-MSMS IVD kits. Visitors to Booth #1 at MSACL 2014 EU in Salzburg, Austria, from the 2nd […]

Porvair Sciences has announced a complete storage solution for HPLC fractions comprising its 2ml round deep well microplate and high integrity cap mat seals. The revolutionary design of the 2ml deep well plate, which for the first time provides scientists with a genuine 2ml working volume in a 45mm height plate, is now coupled with […]

Shimadzu Corporation announces the global release of ASAPrep, an automated scale-up system for reversed phase purification. ASAPrep (Automated Scale-up from Analytical to Preparative conditions) is an algorithm (Patent Pending) used to calculate an optimal initial organic mobile phase concentration in preparative scale using the retention time acquired by LC-PDA-MS measurement, and to judge the difference […]

Maven has completed a £3.9m investment in Crawford Scientific (Crawford). Founder and MD, Sam Crawford will continue to lead the business alongside the senior management team who will become shareholders as part of the transaction. Established in 1985 and with a turnover now in excess of £10m, Crawford provides chromatography consumables, instrument parts and technical […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. -– Many laboratories analyzing monoclonal antibodies (mAb) regularly encounter situations where they need alternative hydrophobic interaction chromatography (HIC) selectivity. Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed new column chemistry that separates many more of these challenging mAbs, antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) and proteins. The Thermo Scientific MAbPac HIC-10 HPLC column has been demonstrated to provide […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif., and KYOTO, Japan -— Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and Shimadzu Corp. today announced the release of each other’s GC instrument control for their respective chromatography data systems. The move provides customers in analytical laboratories with more freedom of choice when selecting a chromatography data system. Agilent has released drivers for the […]