Company Announcements

In September, Agilent Technologies entered into a comarketing agreement with service provider MRM Proteomics to offer a complete solution for quantitative proteomics using multiple reaction monitoring.

Agilent announced a comarketing agreement with Molecular Discovery to provide an advanced metabolite-identification platform, which combines their respective LC/MS technology and Mass-MetaSite software.

AB SCIEX announced in September a BiologicsFocus Initiative consisting of new product development, a beta software evaluation program, a “one-on-one connections“ program, and forums.

AB SCIEX and the University of Wollongon entered into a research partnership in September to develop a standardized procedure for determining double bond position in lipids. AB SCIEX gained an exclusive license to “OzID“ intellectual property for understanding lipid structure.

Microsaic Systems named Colin Jump CEO effective November 5. He joins the company from Shimadzu UK.

In September, Waters named the University of North Texas’s Metabolomics and Metabolic Signaling Pathway Research Laboratory as a Center of Innovation.

LECO announced the compatibility of its High Resolution TOFMS systems with the Genedata Expressionist MSX software for metabolomics.

In October, LECO entered into an agreement with the DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the development of metabolomics applications and tools using its Citius LC-HRT MS system.

1st Detect named Transglobal Distributor its distributor for the EU.

Product Introductions

Thermo Fisher Scientific released Thermo Scientific Proteome Discoverer 2.0, which includes Protein Metrics’ Byonic database search software for streamlining the analysis of post-translational modification data.

Genedata introduced the competitively priced Expressionist MSX for academic proteomics and metabolomics.

Bruker launched in September the solariX XR FT-MS in a limited early-access program. The system offers mass resolution greater than 10 million and resolving powers of great than 250,000 at m/z 400 in one second at 7 T.

Bruker introduced in Europe the Toxtyper clinical MS solution for toxicology labs, consisting of the amaZon speed ion trap MS, a UHPLC system, library identification algorithms and a library of toxicology compounds.

In September, Ionics introduced the 3Q Molecular Analyzers triple quadrupole MS systems, featuring sensitivity into the attograms and signal-to-noise enhancements.

BIOCRATES Life Sciences launched AbsoluteIDQ Steroid Calibrators, Quality Controls, Internal Standards and Steroid Testmix for the simultaneous quantification of up to 17 steroids from human serum.