Rochester, NY 9/1/11—Thermo Fisher Scientific has acquired Intrinsic Bioprobes, a manufacturer of immunoenrichment tools for sample preparation for use in quantitative MS. The company’s Mass Spectrometric Immunoassay (MSIA) technology is designed for the enrichment of low-abundance proteins in biological samples. “The Intrinsic Bioprobes portfolio will enhance Thermo Fisher’s position in the rapidly emerging field of […]
Company Announcements Sage-N Research and Nonlinear Dynamics agreed to comarket their respective SORCERER proteomics platform and Progeneis LC/MS label-free quantification software. In May, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics entered into a comarketing agreement for Bruker’s MALDI Biotyper MALDI-TOF MS system for microbial identification. In June, Prosolia named GSG Meß- und Analysengeräte a distributor for its Omni Spray […]
As the application of LC/MS entered ever more challenging areas, the demand for an added dimension of differentiation was needed, which helped to give rise to ion mobility–enabled MS. Several major vendors now offer the technology. Ion mobility is a technique that utilizes an applied electric field to separate molecular ions based on their mobility […]
At ASMS 2011, several companies discussed future product introductions. AB SCIEX announced at its press conference that it expects to obtain IVD-CE marking for its API 3200 triple quadrupole system and 3200 QTRAP triple quadrupole/linear ion trap LC/MS systems by the end of the year, enabling the use of the systems in Europe for clinical […]
This year’s 59th American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) meeting was held in Denver, Colorado, on June 4–9. There were 169 exhibitors, which was more than the previous two years, but still down from the 2007 peak of 183 exhibitors. Attendance this year increased 6.3% to 6,477 over last year’s show, which was held in […]
Company Announcements Bruker announced that in January it entered into a settlement agreement with Isis Pharmaceuticals regarding the companies’ 2008 legal dispute (see IBO 12/31/08). In February, AB SCIEX announced a collaboration with Europe’s Institute of Cancer Research to improve and standardize methods of MALDI-TOF/TOF–based tissue imaging for studying cancer metastasis. In March, the National […]
The quest to identify the ideal measure of water quality is an evolving saga and involves various analyses, such as dissolved oxygen, total organic carbon (TOC), chemical oxygen demand (COD) and biological oxygen demand (BOD). Developing reliable, easy-to-use instrumentation for such measurements is a challenge, but one that makers of COD analyzers are increasingly up […]
Atomic Spectrometry LECO introduced two elemental analyzers for applications involving metals, alloys and other inorganic samples: the CS844 for carbon/sulfur measurements and the ONH836 for measuring oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen. Improvements in the combustion furnace, detector systems and cleaning automation have been combined with touch-screen control. The CS844 is priced at $65,000 and began shipment […]
In order for a protein to be introduced into an MS for identification, it must undergo a series of preparatory steps to ensure the cleanliness of the sample. Protein digestion is among those steps. Using a protease (most commonly trypsin), the protein is enzymatically digested into smaller pieces or peptides. Laboratory automation allows scientists to […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker’s S8 Dragon wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (WD-XRF) system combines a conventional array of wavelength detectors dedicated for elements of particular interest with a multielement energy dispersive detector (the Bruker XFlash, more commonly used for energy dispersive spectrometry [EDS] microanalysis) to provide simultaneous measurement of the remaining elements. A complete run takes […]
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