SAN JOSE, Calif. –– Labs performing clinical research and forensic toxicology of dried sample spots can now purchase Thermo Scientific mass spectrometry (MS) systems equipped from the factory with PaperSpray technology, designed to virtually eliminate sample preparation for screening and quantitation of drugs in biological fluid samples. Thermo Fisher Scientific has entered into a value […]

Framingham, MA — SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies announced at the MSACL 2015 US conference in San Diego that it has signed an agreement with Mass Consortium Corporation; a mass spectrometry-focused software company, for the exclusive reseller and marketing rights of XCMSplus software. As the exclusive reseller of XCMSplus software, SCIEX […]

AUSTIN, Texas — 1st Detect Corporation, a subsidiary of Astrotech Corporation (Nasdaq:ASTC), announced today that the United States Patent Office (“USPTO”) has issued the company a key patent for improving the sensitivity and identification capability of the company’s unique ion trap, used for chemical analysis and detection. “We are extremely pleased that the USPTO has […]

Gothenburg, Sweden — Denator AB announced today that the company has entered into a 2-year collaboration with the Maastricht MultiModal Molecular Imaging Institute (M4I) of Maastricht University, the Netherlands. As part of the collaboration, Denator will work closely with the M4I Division of Imaging Mass Spectrometry, headed by university professor Ron Heeren, to jointly develop […]

Ithaca, NY – Advion, Inc., a leading systems and consumables developer for the life sciences industry, introduces the Plate ExpressTM, a patent-pending automated software-controlled system to directly analyze thin-layer chromatography (TLC) plates and a full range of other planar surfaces by mass spectrometry. Plate Express provides a simple, automated, software-clicked means of visually pinpointing and […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Mike McMullen, president and chief operating officer of the company, has been elected chief executive officer by its board of directors, effective immediately. His appointment is part of Agilent’s previously announced CEO transition plan. McMullen succeeds William (Bill) Sullivan, who becomes a company […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Daniel K. Podolsky, M.D., president of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, has been appointed to the company’s board of directors, effective in July. Dr. Podolsky’s appointment increases Agilent’s board to 10 members. “We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Podolsky to […]

SAN CARLOS, Calif. — Protein Metrics Inc., an innovative developer of software solutions for protein characterization and SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today released details of their co-marketing agreement for the use of Byomap(TM) and Byologic(®) with SCIEX TripleTOF(®) instruments. Protein Metrics supplies software to automate multiple aspects of biotherapeutic protein […]

Framingham, MA — SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced collaborators in the OneOmics™ project, an exclusive partnership between Illumina and SCIEX that integrates SWATH™ Acquisition based next-generation proteomics (NGP) and next-generation sequencing (NGS) data on the BaseSpace® cloud computing environment. Advaita Bioinformatics, The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) and researchers […]