Santa Clara, CA and Billerica, MA 9/9/15—Agilent Technologies has definitively agreed to acquire Seahorse Bioscience for $235 million in cash. Seahorse provides instruments and assay kits for measuring cell metabolism and bioenergetics. Founded in 2001 and employing nearly 200 people, Seahorse is expected to generate $49 million in fiscal 2015 revenues. “Seahorse Bioscience’s unique technology […]
Tremendous progress has been made in using multiple reaction monitoring MS (MRM-MS) for verification of clinical biomarkers, for which it is widely used and accepted. Targeted proteomics, in which a subset of candidate biomarkers are detected and measured, using MRM-MS enables multiplex, high-throughput quantification from a few up to hundreds of proteins per sample, reducing […]
MS systems quantify and identify the chemical composition of a sample by generating its mass spectrum. A mass spectrum is a graph of the relative abundance of detected ions by mass within a sample. The process of generating mass spectra begins with the ionization of the sample, which can be achieved by a variety of […]
Company Announcements In June, Agena Bioscience named KAWA.SKA and BioGen-Analytica as distributors for Poland and Russia, respectively. Waters named Taiwan-based Chang Gung University’s Health Aging Research Center as a Waters Centers of Innovation Program partner. Thermo Fisher Scientific announced a memo of understanding for research collaboration with Thailand’s National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, […]
This year’s winners of IBO’s Design Awards for portable instrument utilize industrial design to integrate portability and utility. These battery-powered, instruments are designed for transport and use outside a lab. Gold Award The 2015 Gold IBO Design Award for portable instrumentation goes to DetectaChem’s SEEKERe colorimetric system for explosives and narcotics detection. The 2.6 x […]
Company Announcements Bruker received FDA 510(k) in April clearance for library and methods expansion for the MALDI Biotyper CA System, adding 170 species and species groups. Waters announced in April clearance by the Chinese FDA of its ACQUITY UPLC I-Class IVD/Xevo TQ-S IVD System for IVD use in China. Agena Bioscience named Bioyong Technology as […]
Ithaca, NY 6/5/15—Advion, a supplier of MS systems and life science consumables, has agreed to be acquired by Bohui Innovation Technology, a publicly traded Chinese firm that develops, manufactures and supplies diagnostics systems. “Bohui intends to fully fund Advion’s R&D projects to strengthen its market position and to promote Advion’s products in the Chinese market,” […]
IBO has selected Bruker’s MALDI Tissuetyper Solution with rapifleX MALDI-TOF MS as the product of the show for this year’s ASMS annual meeting. The system features performance improvements over other MALDI imaging instruments, in particular, its ability to provide acquisition of up to 50 pixels at fewer than 10 µm/sec, and a new 3-D laser […]
The American Society of Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) held its 63rd annual conference from May 31 to June 4 at the downtown convention center in St. Louis, Missouri. Attendance totaled 6,101, falling 8.9% from last year (see IBO 6/30/14). MS companies at the conference focused on total-package solutions for research needs, unlike in previous years, when […]
Company Announcements Under a commercial supply agreement announced in February, MRM Proteomics granted Cambridge Isotope Laboratories (CIL) exclusive rights to its PeptiQuant kits for quantitative proteomics, including its Stable Isotope Standards as part of the kits, which CIL will distribute. The first Biomarker Assessment Kit allows for 76 proteins to be quantitated in a single […]
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