Company Announcements Agilent provided Stemina Biomarker Discovery with its 1290 Infinity UHPLC, 6530 Q-TOF MS and Mass Profiler Professional software to help accelerate Stemina’s metabolomic analysis of stem cells for the discovery of biomarkers for use in drug screening and development. Shimadzu Scientific Instruments partnered with Advanced Chemistry Development (ACD) to bring together LCMS-IT-TOF MS […]
Company Announcements Bio-Works agreed to provide agarose-based chromatography gels for use with Knauer GmbH’s BioFox line of separations columns for protein purification. Bio-Works will provide prepacked columns and bulk media. PAC and Metrohm are working together to develop combustion IC applications using their respective MultiTek and IC systems. Product Introductions Gilson launched the PLC 2020 […]
Company Announcements Phenomenex voluntarily dismissed its complaint against Thermo Fisher Scientific (see IBO 12/31/09). UK-based Hichrom acquired Beckman Coulter’s Ultrasphere HPLC column product family. Chiral Technologies Europe signed a distribution agreement with Hichrom for the UK. Armen Instruments sold its flash chromatography business to Interchim in January. BAC BV added a new bioprocess affinity chromatography […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker AXS launched the D8 DISCOVER X-ray diffractometer. The D8 DISCOVER further increases ease of use with real-time component detection, plug-and-play functionality and fully integrated two-dimensional X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) capabilities. These capabilities allow the user to switch between all materials research XRD applications, including reflectometry, high-resolution diffraction, grazing incidence diffraction and small angle […]
Company Announcements Waters became the exclusive distributor of S-Matrix’s Fusion Method Development software. In January, Sigma-Aldrich Supelco was named the sole US and Canadian distributor of Eka Chemical’s Kromasil analytical HPLC columns. Repligen extended its relationship with GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences AB by entering into a five-year supply agreement for recombinant Protein A. In February, Phenomenex […]
Foster City, CA and Concord, Canada 2/16/10—MS supplier AB SCIEX has acquired Eksigent Technologies for an undisclosed amount. Eksigent provides advanced low-flow HPLC systems. “This acquisition addresses a broad range of life science applications, such as the rapidly growing peptide quantitation market, by further enabling breakthrough performance and ease of use through the combination of […]
Waters recently unveiled the latest addition to its family of ACQUITY Ultraperformance LC (UPLC) systems, the H-Class. It joins the suite of products, which includes the original ACQUITY UPLC system, the nanoACQUITY system and the PATROL UPLC process analyzer. In terms of product performance, the H-Class bridges the gap between Waters’s Alliance HPLC and ACQUITY […]
The market for separations techniques was hit hard in 2009 due to weakness in the industrial segments, including the chemicals industry, and the pharmaceutical industry. The separations market declined 5.7% in 2009 and accounted for $6.2 billion in sales. While the market is not expected to make a full recovery just yet, it is estimated […]
Combustion ion chromatography (CIC) is an interesting variation on IC that enables the analysis of certain kinds of samples that would be otherwise difficult to manage. To understand the method, it is advantageous to strip away the different layers of the technique. At its heart is chromatography, a basic separations method that makes use of […]
Company Announcements Chiral Technologies signed a sales agreement with LEACSA for Mexico. Dionex Executive Vice President and COO Kevin Chance resigned in October. Proxeon appointed six new distributors: Proteomic Solutions for France, Rigas Labs for Greece, Biosense for Italy, Alpha Analytical for Singapore, Scientech for Taiwan and Scinco for South Korea. Product Introductions GL Sciences […]
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