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 spectrum data with the ACD/Labs fragment-assignment tools.

AB SCIEX named Shane Lyons vice president, Americas Sales, Support and Customer Service. Most recently, she was global vice president, Sales and Marketing, for GenVault.

AB SCIEX is working with the ETH Zurich Institute of Molecular Systems Biology as part of the Swiss Systems Biology Program to accelerate analysis and improve result for metabolomics. ETH scientists are using the AB SCIEX QTRAP 5500 System to develop a new method.

Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Thermo Fisher Biomarker Research Initiatives in Mass Spectrometry Center is collaborating with Toshihide Nashimura, professor at the Tokyo Medical University Hospital, and Gyorgy Marko-Varga, professor at the Tokyo Medical University Hospital and Lund University. The collaboration’s intent is to establish a new Biomarker Research Center in Tokyo, Japan.

Phytronix Technologies and Waters entered into a collaborative agreement in July to develop a high-throughput solution based on the Phytronix Laser Diode Thermal Desorption Ion Source.

In September, Protea Biosciences exclusively licensed commercial rights to Laser Ablation Electrospray Ionization technology, which provides 3D mapping of biomolecules, from George Washington University.

Product Introductions

Hiden Analytical introduced a family of quadrupole MS systems designed specifically for ultra high-volume and extremely high-volume performance, featuring pulse ion-counting detection and trace-level detection down to 5 ppb.

Sage-N Research announced in August the integration into its drug discovery platform of a new phosphorylation algorithm using MS, based on a method developed by Professor Steve Gygi of Harvard Medical School.

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments released Component ID Solution software for automating impurity analysis using LCMS-IT-TOF system data.

Shimadzu introduced the Glycan Analyzer, comprised of the Axima Resonance MALDI-QIT-TOF MS and a glycan mass spectrum database.

Shimadzu launched the LCMS-8030 triple quadrupole MS system and LabSolutions LCMS software, featuring a scan speed of up to 15,000 u/sec. It can perform up to 500 different multiple reaction–monitoring measurements per second, according to the company.