BOSTON–Scientists working to discover protein-based biomedical breakthroughs are constrained by the time and cost required to identify and quantify large numbers of proteins. Thermo Fisher Scientific and researchers at Harvard Medical School have teamed up to develop promising new ways to perform protein quantitation on a much larger scale than currently possible, with the goal […]

OMAHA, Neb.– Transgenomic, Inc. (OTCBB: TBIO), a global biotechnology company advancing personalized medicine in cardiology, oncology, and inherited diseases through diagnostic tests as well as clinical and research services, today announced the appointment of Michael A. Luther, Ph.D., to its Board of Directors. Dr. Luther will also become a member of the Board’s audit committee. […]

WEST CHESTER, Pa. -— Chiral Technologies announced the extension of its line of Daicel high-performance supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) chiral columns. These new optimized 3-mm internal diameter columns are packed with 3-micron immobilized or coated chiral stationary phases (CSPs). The availability of these new SFC columns will help researchers to fully utilize the latest SFC […]

Innsbruck — A team of researchers in Georgetown, Washington DC, and Rochester, New York, has developed the world’s first blood test capable of predicting Alzheimer’s disease. The first-of-its-kind study, recently published in Nature Medicine, used the AbsoluteIDQ® p180 test kit by BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG, a leading Austrian biotech company specialized in targeted metabolite quantification. […]

Menlo Park, Calif. & St. Petersburg, Florida –– SRI International and Spyglass Technologies, Inc. have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement to commercialize SRI’s in situ membrane introduction mass spectrometry (MIMS) technology. Through the license, Spyglass, a St. Petersburg, Florida-based technology company, will apply SRI’s underwater MIMS technology to a broad range of commercial, research, […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif., and SINGAPORE — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced its support for a new international research consortium, led by the National University of Singapore (NUS), that aims to develop the world’s first lipid1 database for healthy persons of different racial and ethnic groups. Using the lipid database, scientists and researchers hope […]

Shimadzu announces the release of its Crude2Pure (C2P), the world’s first automated purification/powderization system. Incorporating automated purification and powderization technology, using trap concentration*1, this system can purify target compounds from synthetic products consisting of low molecular weight organic compounds and complicated natural substances, and recover them as highly pure powders. It is intended for use […]

Boston, MA: 908 Devices, a pioneer of purpose-built analytical devices for chemical analysis, is delighted to introduce M908™, the world’s first truly handheld tool utilizing high-pressure mass spectrometry™ (HPMS). Specifically engineered for civilian users, first responders, and military teams, M908 provides accurate, immediate detection and identification of trace level chemical and explosive hazards at the […]

Torrance, CA -– Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, announces new Kinetex Core-Shell Biphenyl HPLC/UHPLC columns, giving researchers the ideal orthogonal selectivity to traditional C18 phases. This new phase is excellent for a broad range of complex-mixture analyses in clinical research and forensic toxicology, […]

Zurich-Schlieren (CH) – Biognosys AG, a Swiss Proteomics Company, and Functional Genomics Center Zurich (FGCZ), a state-of-the-art research and training facility of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, announced today the collaboration on a large-scale testing of SpectroDiveTM software for Multiple and Parallel Reaction Monitoring (MRM and PRM, respectively). MRM is a well-established method […]