American Society for Mass Spectrometry’s 56th Annual Conference BILLERICA, Mass.–Bruker Daltonics said today that it will hold a press conference at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry’s 56th Annual Conference in Denver on Monday, June 2nd, at 10 a.m. in room 506 of the Colorado Convention Center. Editors, journalists and institutional investors who plan to […]

Advancing Proteomics Research with Secure Protein Identifications MILFORD, Mass. & SEATTLE–Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT – News) and Rosetta Biosoftware today announced that the Rosetta Elucidator® system has been enabled to mine Waters® UltraPerformance LC®/MSE, high-bandwidth, proteomics discovery data and integrate the Waters IDENTITYE® search engine for secure protein identifications. Both companies will showcase their integrated solution […]

Analyst(R) Software Application for Mass Spectrometry Systems Identifies More Than 600 Substances FOSTER CITY, Calif.–Public concern over the safety of food and drinking water is increasingly in the news around the world. Already this year, there have been reports of tainted rice from China, food coloring additives in Europe, and traces of pharmaceuticals found in […]

TSQ Vantage increases sensitivity without increasing noise for better reproducibility, accuracy, and precision in quantitative analysis San Jose, CA (May 28, 2008) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced that it will launch the Thermo Scientific TSQ Vantage™ at ASMS 2008. A new LC-MS/MS system that delivers […]

Collaboration Aims to Accelerate Verification and Validation of Protein Biomarkers for Earlier Disease Diagnosis and Therapeutic Efficacy WALTHAM, Mass.–Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced an alliance between its Biomarker Research Initiatives in Mass Spectrometry (BRIMS) Center and George Mason University’s Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine […]

Applied Biosystems/MDS Analytical Technologies Technology Helps Provide New Insights Into Consumption of Illegal Drugs BARCELONA, Spain–Scientists at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Barcelona have developed a new method for monitoring the consumption of drugs of abuse in the general population. This method, which was developed using analytical laboratory technology from Applied Biosystems/MDS […]

COBHAM, England (April 9, 2008) – Proteome Sciences plc has entered into an exclusive license agreement for its TMT® isobaric tandem mass tag technology with Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc (NYSE: TMO). Under the terms of the license, Proteome Sciences will manufacture its patented TMT® reagents exclusively for Thermo Fisher Scientific, which will market and sell […]

Antibody-free system reduces cost and time of quantitative protein assay development for screening low abundance biomarkers in blood GHENT, Belgium; 26th March 2008 – Pronota nv, the Belgium-based biomarker discovery and development company, announced today the launch of MASSterclass™, its highly-sensitive protein biomarker verification tool, at the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference in San Francisco. The MASSterclass […]

Acquisitions Expand Microscopy Portfolio, Launch Particle-Analysis Capabilities NEW ORLEANS, PITTCON, March 3, 2008 — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire TILL Photonics GmbH and has completed the acquisition of Colloidal Dynamics. Both companies will join the recently created Materials Science Solutions Unit within Agilent’s Life Science and […]

Combined Company Will Be a Leading Provider of High-Performance Scientific Instrumentation and Analytical Solutions for Life Science and Materials Research, for Applied and Industrial Markets, and for Homeland Security Detection BILLERICA, Mass.–Dec. 3, 2007–Bruker BioSciences Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) announced today that it has entered into definitive agreements to acquire the companies of the privately held […]