Company Announcements Ascenion GmbH acquired shares in Photonion GmbH, a company founded by scientists from Helmholtz Zentrum München, as well as Airsense Analytics GmbH and Tofwerk AG. Photonion is developing an MS system for direct analysis of complex organic materials, liquids and gases that utilizes a soft photoionization source based on vacuum UV light sources. […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker introduced the Q2 ION at its Pittcon press conference. The Q2 ION is a compact benchtop arc-spark spectrometer. It is a cost-effective complement to handheld XRF for metals analysis at smaller foundries and recycling centers. The system is now available at a price of roughly $35,000. Following the success of its Terra […]
For the first time in many years, the overall MS market actually declined in revenues in 2009, although the 2.5% contraction in demand was fairly small compared to the broader analytical instrument market, let alone the broader economy. IBO expects the MS market to rebound significantly in 2010, growing 8.2% and reaching nearly $2.5 billion […]
Company Announcements Thermo Fisher Scientific is collaborating with the integrative network biology initiative at The Institute of Cancer Research in the UK. Bruker Daltonics and the Mass Spectrometry Research Laboratory of Professor Catherine Costello at the Boston University School of Medicine are collaborating on the application of ion trap MS and FT-MS to glycomics and […]
MALDI’s ability to nondestructively ionize biological materials makes it valuable in proteomics applications, including protein identification and sequencing determination. Nevertheless, MALDI comes with limitations when analyzing large molecules, including dissociating weak covalent bonds and a low efficiency in detecting masses above 30–50 kDa. CovalX was founded more than four years ago in Zurich, Switzerland, to […]
The holy grail of medical analytical technologies is an instrument into which a clinician can put a drop of blood or saliva that quickly and accurately reports back any and all diseases a person may have. Although there have been major performance advancements in MALDI-TOF instrumentation in recent years, there is still significant need for […]
Company Announcements Overbrook Scientific agreed to distribute Phytronix Technologies’ Laser Diode Thermal Desorption ionization technology in the US. In May, Bruker announced that its MALDI Biotyper workflow for microbial identification in clinical microbiology obtained the IVD-CE Mark. Bruker also formed US collaborations for the clinical validation of the workflow for micro-organism identification. Bruker Daltonik GmbH […]
Company Announcements CovaIX AG and BioAnalyte are codeveloping software for discovering how proteins interact in large complexes. Prosolia received an NIH Small Business Technology Transfer grant to develop with Indiana University an atmospheric pressure glow discharge for direct analysis of samples under ambient conditions. Agilent announced a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the EPA’s […]
An overlooked segment of the MS market is time-of-flight (TOF) LC/MS, which will exceed $80 million in sales in 2009, excluding the much larger Q-TOF MS market. Although LC-TOF MS does not posses many of the capabilities of more expensive MS techniques, it fills an important price-to-performance segment of the market, and has the potential […]
Company Announcements Proxeon integrated its EASY-nLC system software with Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Xcalibur software and became a Thermo Fisher Scientific Virtual Instrument Partner. Varian and Flora Research Laboratories formed an alliance in October 2008 to advance the implementation of LC/MS for complex dietary supplement analysis. JASCO released drivers for Applied Biosystems/MDS Analytical Technologies’ Analyst software […]
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