European office established, Appointment of EU Sales Manager and value-added reseller agreements with leading MS manufacturers in response to increased demand for RapidFire® mass spectrometry across Europe WOBURN, Mass.–BIOCIUS Life Sciences Inc., developers of the label-free RapidFire® high-throughput mass spectrometry platform, today announced that it has expanded its operations, opening a European office and naming […]

SRM/MRM Mass Spectrometry (MS) Standard Database for 5,000 Human Proteins ROCKVILLE, Md. and SEATTLE — OriGene Technologies, Inc., a leading gene-centric life sciences company, and the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), announce plans to create a proteotypic PeptideAtlas and develop an SRM/MRM (single reaction monitoring, multiple reaction monitoring) mass spectrometry standard database for 5,000 human […]

New Empower Driven Services Uniquely Combines Laboratory Utilization Data with Service Information to Optimize Resources MILFORD, Mass. — Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT – News) today introduced Empower™ Driven Services, an innovative service program that provides Waters® Empower customers with invaluable analytics needed to make enterprise-level decisions regarding laboratory utilization. Empower Driven Services integrates instrument services and […]

Scientists Develop Mobile Sensing Units to Find Bombs and Improvised Explosive Devices; Technology Could Replace Current Scanners in Airports NEW YORK — — A technology long used for identifying traces of organic compounds in exhaust gases may hold the key to finding minute traces of explosives and chemical warfare agents (CWAs) carried into airports or […]

OMAHA, Neb. — Transgenomic, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: TBIO) today announced that Katherine A. Richardson, Ph.D. has joined the company as Technical Director for Laboratory Services. Dr. Richardson will be responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of Transgenomic’s Laboratory Services labs, and will report to Craig Tuttle, Transgenomic’s president and chief executive officer. Dr. Richardson […]

STOCKHOLM–Regulatory News: “The combined capabilities within existing R & D organizations and production units will allow us to further profit on the current businesses but also to venture into new areas.” Biotage AB (STO:BIOTA) a global leader in tools and technology for medicinal and analytical chemistry, and the owners of MIP Technologies AB today announced […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, and Professor Bruno Domon, director of the new Luxembourg Clinical Proteomics unit (LCP), today announced a collaboration to develop workflows that overcome current bottlenecks in biomarker discovery and assay development for clinical proteomics research. The LCP is funded by the Fonds […]

Organizations to Focus on Advancing Protein Research Through Emerging Mass Spectrometry Technology FOSTER CITY, Calif. & TORONTO–AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced that it is collaborating with the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, one of the world’s leading centers for biomedical research, to improve disease studies. […]

Next-Generation Proprietary Platform Makes High-Performance Mass Spectrometry Available to Broad Market SAN DIEGO — Sequenom, Inc. (Nasdaq: SQNM) today announced the launch of its next-generation mass spectrometry system – the MassARRAY® Analyzer 4. This new high performance nucleic acid analysis platform has been designed to meet customer demand for a bench top instrument with greater […]