BALTIMORE–Ameritox, Ltd., the U.S. leader in pain prescription urine drug monitoring, today announced its addition of the industry’s most advanced, most sensitive analytical method for detecting prescription pain medications: multiplexing liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Ameritox has implemented the Thermo Scientific TSQ Quantum Access™ triple quadrupole mass spectrometer with the Aria™ TLX-4 multiplexing system […]

July 1, 2008 – Ithaca, NY – Advion BioServices, Inc., a specialty contract research organization, today announced that it has expanded its bioanalytical service capabilities by adding five new triple quadrupole mass spectrometers to its laboratory in Ithaca, New York. Included in this investment are the industry-leading API 5000™ LC/MS/MS System and API 4000™ LC/MS/MS […]

Portland, ME (June 13, 2008) – Instrument developer IonSense, Inc. of Saugus, MA and software provider BioAnalyte, Inc. of Portland, ME have released the first software program designed specifically to enable rapid conversion of large volumes of mass spectrometer data to a visual format for easy interpretation. Demand for the program comes from users of […]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(June 11, 2008) – Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ZMS)(FRANKFURT:W1I) today announced a new and proprietary solid-state 336nm DPSS laser designed to replace nitrogen gas lasers currently used in a wide range of mass spectrometry applications. Zecotek’s 336nm DPSS laser offers both superior performance and product lifetime characteristics as compared to existing lasers used […]

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Shimadzu Corporation announce a Collaborative Research Agreement to Develop New Analytical Platforms for the Detection and Analysis of Cancer-Associated Proteins and Peptides Shimadzu Corporation (Kyoto, Japan), a world leader in the development of technology solutions, today announced collaboration between its Mass Spectrometry Research Laboratory (Kyoto, Japan), Shimadzu Scientific […]

FOSTER CITY, Calif. & PALO ALTO, Calif.–Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI – News), an Applera Corporation business, and its joint-venture partner, MDS Analytical Technologies, a business unit of MDS Inc. (NYSE:MDZ – News) (TSX:MDS – News), and PREMIER Biosoft International today announced that they have signed a co-marketing and reseller agreement to deliver solutions for glycobiology research […]

LAVAL, QC, June 2 /CNW Telbec/ – ALERT B&C Corporation (“ALERT B&C” or the “Corporation”) (TSX Venture Exchange: ACB) announces today its plan to manufacture and sell the MAB source as a stand-alone product that can be retrofitted on all types of mass spectrometers. ALERT B&C is the developer and manufacturer of Detection & Identification […]

FOSTER CITY, Calif. & WOBURN, Mass.–Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI – News), an Applera Corporation business, today announced that it has signed a non-exclusive reseller agreement with BioTrove, Inc. to offer an end-to-end mass spectrometry-based drug discovery workflow intended to help pharmaceutical companies make drug discovery more efficient. This solution will combine BioTrove’s RapidFire™ Mass Spectrometry Sample […]

DENVER–Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today introduced a triple quadrupole gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer (GC/MS) and an updated triple quadrupole liquid chromatograph/mass spectrometer (LC/MS) at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry meeting. Agilent emphasized that these mass spectrometers are “smashing sensitivity barriers.” The 7000A triple quadrupole GC/MS is designed to make femtogram-level sensitivity and high-speed MRM accessible […]

– BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG, an Innsbruck, Austria-based metabolomics company, today announced that it has entered into a worldwide co-marketing agreement with Applied Biosystems, a leader in mass spectrometry. Under the terms of the agreement, Biocrates will promote Applied Biosystems’ mass spectrometers for targeted metabolomics and for use in conjunction with their AbsoluteIDQ(TM) Kits. In […]