COLUMBIA, Md. – Shimadzu Scientific Instruments will present new applications for ultra-fast mass spectrometry (UFMS) at ASMS 2011 in Denver. Data presented will showcase the application of UFMS with Shimadzu’s LCMS-8030 triple quadrupole mass spectrometer to pharmaceuticals, environmental, food safety, forensics, metabolomics, therapeutic drug monitoring and natural products. UFMS delivers speed without sacrificing sensitivity, resolution […]

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. – AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, and Phytronix Technologies today announced that they are working together to expand choices for scientists and lab analysts focused on high-throughput pharmaceutical applications, forensic toxicology and food safety testing. The two companies are integrating Phytronix’s LDTD (Laser Diode Thermal Desorption) Ion source […]

DENVER (ASMS) – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the Bond Elut DMS (Dried Matrix Spotting) samplepreparation card for dried blood-spotting bioanalysis. The proprietary design delivers a number of advantages over conventional cellulose-based cards. Dried blood-spotting analysis is an emerging technique in biological research. It allows researchers to substantially reduce costs and time-consuming steps […]

DENVER – Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) today introduced the SYNAPT® G2-S High Definition Mass Spectrometer, representing a significant step forward in performance for High Definition Mass Spectrometry. The SYNAPT G2-S incorporates both high-sensitivity Waters StepWave(TM) ion transfer optics and Triwave® ion mobility technologies along with a suite of new informatics tools to take qualitative and […]

DENVER (American Society for Mass Spectrometry conference) – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the Agilent 6420 triple quadrupole liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) system, a new workhorse triple quad designed to be readily upgradable to the higher-performance 6430 and 6460 instruments as customer needs change. “Users want their instrument investments to be future-proof, which […]

DENVER – Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) today announced it has entered into a non-exclusive co-marketing and reselling agreement with PREMIER Biosoft International (Palo Alto, CA) to advance lipidomics research. Waters will offer PREMIER Biosoft’s SimLipid® informatics platform for sale with Waters® ACQUITY UPLC® and high-resolution, exact mass SYNAPT® and XEVO® mass spectrometers for lipid analysis. […]

DENVER (American Society for Mass Spectrometry conference) – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the 6550 iFunnel quadrupole time-of-flight liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (Q-TOF LC/MS) system. It increases TOF sensitivity to low femtogram levels while delivering fast acquisition to 50 spectra/sec, up to five orders of intra-scan dynamic range, and robust performance and operation. […]

DENVER (ASMS) – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced a number of performance enhancements to its 6100B Series single quadrupole liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) platform. Prices are unchanged. At the entry level of the Agilent single quad LC/MS portfolio, the 6120B now has POS/NEG switching that is 10 times faster than the previous instrument. […]

DENVER – At ASMS 2011, Bruker is introducing the breakthrough, proprietary CaptiveSpray electrospray ion source for nano-HPLC applications in proteomics. Using CaptiveSpray technology in many cases increases bottom-up protein identifications significantly, and CaptiveSpray is presently the best available technology for robust, reproducible protein ID or quantitative proteomics applications, with excellent, stable sensitivity over long time […]

WALTHAM, Mass. – PerkinElmer Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the launch of its AxION™ Mass Spectrometry platform at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference, June 5-9, in Denver, Colorado. The AxION hardware and software platform is specifically designed to deliver rapid […]