RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. –– To provide a more comprehensive and efficient global solution for its laboratory customers, Quintiles today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Advion BioServices, a premier U.S.-based bioanalytical laboratory providing Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) testing and other services. Under the agreement, Quintiles will acquire Advion BioServices […]

MILFORD, Mass. and SINGAPORE, — Waters Corporation today welcomed Dr. Ganesh Anand’s laboratory at the National University of Singapore into its Centers of Innovation Program, making it the first such Center in Asia. With this designation, Waters honors Assistant Professor Ganesh Anand and his colleagues at the Department of Biological Sciences at NUS for research […]

Shimadzu Corporation (President: Akira Nakamoto, situated in Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan) and Shimane University (President: Hiroki Yamamoto, situated in Matsue City, Shimane, Japan) have signed a joint research agreement for neonatal mass screening using tandem mass spectrometry. (Research period: October 15, 2011 to March 31, 2013.) In neonatal mass screening, blood sampled from newborn babies is […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) and the Agilent Technologies Foundation today announced that Steven Carr, Ph.D, who directs the Proteomics Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, has been selected for an Agilent Thought Leader Award supporting his work developing new technology for analyzing proteins and peptides. Carr’s goal is to produce […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.- Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced its ZORBAX Rapid Resolution High Definition 300SB-C8, 1.8 µm columns for liquid chromatography. The new 1.8 µm particles expand Agilent’s range of wide-pore, 300µ columns for better recovery, resolution and scalability in protein analysis. These RRHD columns are used in ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) to […]

As part of its efforts to promote globalization and to enhance the sales and service structure in southern African markets, Shimadzu Corporation’s wholly owned subsidiary in the United Arab Emirates, Shimadzu Middle East & Africa FZE (SMEA), established a wholly owned sales subsidiary, Shimadzu South Africa (Pty) Limited (SSA), on October 1 in the Republic […]

SAN JOSE, California – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that the Chemical and Veterinary Analytical Institute Münsterland-Emscher-Lippe (CVUA-MEL) has standardized on Thermo Scientific LC-MS and GC-MS systems for routine analyses of contaminants in food, feed and human samples. The CVUA-MEL requires extremely high resolution and highly sensitive instruments […]

MILFORD, Mass. — Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) announced today that its customer Advantar Laboratories, Inc. (San Diego, CA) has successfully completed its rollout of Waters® Empower(TM) 3 Chromatography Software. The 21CFR Part 11 compliant-ready software will play a key role at Advantar and with its new Method Remediation Services group to meet increased demand by […]

Jakarta, Indonesia – With the world’s fourth largest population, Indonesia boasts the largest nominal GDP of all the ASEAN member states and has enjoyed strong expansion in domestic demand. Against this backdrop, the Indonesian economy is projected to achieve continued positive growth going forward. The energy, electronics and automobile markets offer strong growth prospects based […]

Torrance, CA – Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, announces the addition of a Phenyl-Hexyl phase to its successful Kinetex core-shell HPLC/UHPLC column family. Kinetex Phenyl-Hexyl offers a unique selectivity for the separation of compounds that are difficult to resolve using traditional phenyl phases. […]