Company Announcements

Overbrook Scientific agreed to distribute Phytronix Technologies’ Laser Diode Thermal Desorption ionization technology in the US.

In May, Bruker announced that its MALDI Biotyper workflow for microbial identification in clinical microbiology obtained the IVD-CE Mark. Bruker also formed US collaborations for the clinical validation of the workflow for micro-organism identification.

Bruker Daltonik GmbH integrated Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH’s MIRAX Virtual Slide Scanner into its MALDI Molecular Imager for use in non-targeted molecular histology applications.

Bruker formed a long-term collaboration with the University of Warwick’s Department of Chemistry for MS applications and instrument development.

Agilent is collaborating with Anderson Forschung Group to develop quantitative peptide assays to speed protein biomarker development and validation.

In July GE Security’s Itemiser DX desktop explosives trace-detection equipment received Transportation Security Administration certification.

Product Introductions

Bruker released ProteinScape 2.0 software for quantitative studies.

BioTrove launched the RapidFire 300 system for high-throughput screening of in vitro ADME assays for producing label-free data at six to eight seconds per sample.

For its AXIMA line of MALDI MS systems, Shimadzu introduced: QC Reporter software for high-throughput quality control of synthetic products; PTM Finder software; and SeqLab de novo sequencing software.

Thermo Fisher Scientific launched Mass Frontier 6.0 software for small-molecule structural elucidation.

Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced Intelligent Selected Research Monitoring (iSRM) and Pinpont software.

Applied Biosystems and MDS Analytical Technologies released the Cliquid MPX-2 workflow for concurrent LC/MS/MS analysis of two streams into a single MS.

Applied Biosystems and MDS Analytical Technologies introduced Cliquid 3.0 Software.

Waters introduced eight MassLynx workflow enhancements, including the POSI±IVE system for food safety, water quality and environmental samples.

Sales/Orders of Note

Bruker announced in May it has over 40 MALDI Biotypers installed at routine labs in Europe for clinical microbiology.

In July, Applied Biosystems announced that China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine deployed 40 AB SCIEX MS systems for the identification of contaminants in food.