Company Announcements The Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences and Waters commenced in June their collaboration to develop assays for the quantification of vitamins in biological fluids. Bruker announced in June the clearance of its MALDI Biotyper as a medical device by the China Food and Drug Administration for the identification of micro-organisms isolated from human […]
Company Announcements Thermo Fisher Scientific announced in June the registration of its San Jose, California, facility with the FDA as a medical-device establishment as part of its initiative to develop Class 1 MS-based instruments for the clinical market. Waters announced that Omics’s PetroOrg Petroleomics Software is now available for the SYNAPT G2-Si MS. Waters gained […]
Company Announcements In May, QIAGEN cofounder Dr. Detlev Riesner stepped down from the Supervisory Board. Dr. Elaine Mardis, codirector of the Genome Institute at Washington University and the Robert E. and Louise F. Dunn Distinguished Professor of Medicine, was proposed as a new member. Endress+Hauser revenues rose over 7% in 2013 to €1.8 billion ($2.4 […]
Company Announcements Thermo Fisher Scientific and Evans Analytical Group announced in May a collaboration to add pulsed ion-source technology to glow-discharge MS. In June, Thermo Fisher Scientific entered into a collaboration with Nuclea Biotechnologies to develop multiplexed-MS–based research methods for high-throughput quantification of native insulin and its therapeutic analogs. Thermo Fisher Scientific announced in June […]
The winners of IBO’s portable analytical instrument design awards are products that are not only compact and stylish but address the unique challenges of doing analyses outside of the laboratory. A portable instrument is defined as one that is battery powered and is designed to be transported and used outside of a lab. Gold Award […]
Milford, MA 7/22/14; Budapest, Hungary 7/22/14—Waters has acquired Rapid Evaporative Ionization Mass Spectrometry (REIMS) technology, which represents substantially all the assets of Hungarian start-up company MediMass. REIMS can be used as an ambient ionization source for MS. Waters plans to commercialize a REIMS ion source for its TOF-MS systems. In addition, Waters plans to continue […]
For the second year in a row (see IBO 6/15/13), IBO has selected another addition to Thermo Fisher Scientifc’s Orbitrap MS family, the Q Exactive HF Benchtop Orbitrap MS, as the product of the show. The Q Exactive features resolving power of 240,000 (200 m/z, 1.5 Hz), increased scan speed of up to 18 Hz […]
AB SCIEX introduced the Triple Quad 3500 MS, a lower-tier triple-quadrupole LC/MS system, which replaces the API 3200. The system features improvements in scan speed, polarity switching and sensitivity over its predecessor. Designed for routine food- and environmental-testing labs, the system employs the TurboV ion source for reliable quantitation over a wide range of flow […]
In recent years, it has not been unusual for conferences and exhibitions to be disappointing to attendees and exhibitors alike because of logistical decisions, uninteresting technical programs or a paucity of new product introductions or announcements, with predicable declines in attendance. The 62nd Annual Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, sponsored by the American […]
Biologic drugs continue to be one of the fastest-growing categories of the pharmaceutical market. US sales of biologics grew 9.7% annually from 2010 to 2012 to $65.5 billion, or 47% of the global market, according to EvaluatePharma. According to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, 907 biologic medicines and vaccines are in development at […]
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