Company Announcements

In June, Bio-Rad Laboratories and Bruker entered into a comarketing agreement for their respective RAPID chromogenic media and MALDI Biotyper system, delivering a complete workflow for foodborne pathogen detection and confirmation.

Syft Technologies reported a 32% increase in unit sales of its SIFT-MS to 37 in 2017.

In July, 908 Devices entered into a joint innovation partnership with Hangzhou Just Biotherapeutics (HJB) for its ZipChip platform, which is now available in China. HJB is an integrated design company focused on technologies that will accelerate development of biotherapeutics and reduce manufacturing costs.

Agena Bioscience in July named Zhejiang Dian Diagnostics, an independent medical lab provider, as a partner for China.

In July, Agena Bioscience announced it was selected to participate in the CANCER-ID Consortium. Agena’s MassARRAY System will support mutation detection from liquid biopsy samples as part of the Consortium’s work packages in lung cancer and breast cancer. The goal of the Consortium is to establish standard protocols for and the clinical validation of the use of blood-based biomarkers for cancer.

In August, Agena Bioscience entered into an agreement to incorporate PerkinElmer’s LabChip GX Touch in the upfront workflow of its MassARRAY System, targeting ctDNA in oncology liquid biopsy.

For the six months ending June 20, Proteome Sciences reported a 9.4% increase in TMT reagent and royalties sales to £1.05 million ($1.4 million).

In August, Waters announced its UNIFI MS data acquisition system is now compatible with Molecular Discovery’s Molecular Mass-MetaSite and WebMetabase metabolite identification and processing platform. This is the first time that the UNIFI API has been made accessible to an outside party.

In August, Newomics closed a $3.9 million series A funding round. According to the company, its Newomics M3 is the first commercial multi-nozzle emitter device for MS.

Intabio received a $2.3 million Fast Track Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant in August from the NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. The grant will fund development of the Blaze system, a microchip-based technology designed to integrated capillary isoelectric focusing (cIEF) and MS for separation and imaging of protein isoforms, and MS sample preparation and delivery.

Product Introductions

In August, Knauer introduced the KNAUER 4000 MiD single quadrupole MS system, expanding its preparative HPLC portfolio to the field of mass-directed purification.

Shimadzu released in August IMAGEREVEAL MS imaging data analysis software, enabling data to be analyzed from a variety of perspectives and featuring six types of functionality for data analysis.

In August, Thermo Fisher Scientific launched the Thermo Scientific FAIMS Pro Interface for use with its Thermo Scientific Orbitrap Fusion Lumos Tribrid or Thermo Scientific Orbitrap Fusion Tribrid. It is designed to reduce sample and spectral complexity, improve selectivity and increase coverage of the proteome.

Sales and Orders of Note

In June, CAMECA announced that the Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry of the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Science has ordered a NanoSIMS 50L.