Company Announcements

In September, Thermo Fisher Scientific entered into a value added reseller agreement for IonSense’s ID-CUBE ion sources, which will be sold with the Thermo Scientific Q-Exactive and Exactive Plus LC/MS systems.

In September, 908 Devices received $7 million in Series B funding, which included a new investment from Schlumberger. 908 Devices and Schlumberger also signed a multiyear technical collaboration and development agreement for applications in the oil and gas industry.

Bruker announced a second-phase collaboration agreement with SISCAPA Assays Technologies to exploit the use of MALDI-TOF as an alternative to the nano-LC/MS technology currently used in many SISCAPA assays.

Mitsubishi Chemical Medience exclusively licensed Energy Resolved Oxonium Ion Monitoring technology (Erexim), which was developed by Shimadzu and RIKEN, for its glycomics analysis services. Erexim employs triple quadrupole MS to analyze glycan structure.

In September, Shimadzu USA Manufacturing obtained ISO 13485 certification, allowing it to manufacture and supply HPLC and LC/MS for clinical testing in the US.

Agilent Technologies announced in October a collaboration with Seoul National University Hospital for the development and verification of various biomarkers for the development of drugs. Agilent will supply its 6460 Triple Quadrupole LC/MS.

Product Introductions

In September, Thermo Fisher Scientific released an extended mass-range option for the Thermo Scientific Exactive Plus LC/MS, with an m/z range of 350–20,000. The company also released the Thermo Scientific Q Exactive Plus LC/MS, featuring advanced quadrupole technology for improved precursor selection and transmission.

Bruker introduced the maXis HD ultra-high resolution QTOF MS, featuring full sensitivity resolution of greater than 75,000 and a new high definition collision cell.

Matrix Science released in September the Mascot Insight software for organizing, visualizing and comparing proteomics data sets derived from MS results.

In October, Waters introduced the ACQUITY QDa Detector, a mass detector designed as a component of Waters chromatography systems. It is designed with on/off simplicity, eliminating sample-specific adjustments, and is the size of a photodiode array detector.

Agilent Technologies and MRM Proteomics launched the MRM Proteomics PeptiQuant MRM Assay Kits for quality control in quantitative plasma proteomic analysis based on multiple reaction monitoring. They are designed for use with Agilent’s standard flow UHPLC-QQQ MS/MS platform.

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments released Quan Solution, a quantitative open access software for use with the LCMS-8030, LCMS-8040 and LabSolutions LCMS triple quadrupole systems.