Company Announcements

AB SCIEX and Dalton Pharma Services announced in August a research collaboration to develop antibody-drug-conjugate–analysis capabilities.

Tecan announced in August a comarketing agreement with RECIPE Chemicals and Instruments for automation of LC/MS/MS IVD kits.

Microsaic Systems selected Plexus to provide manufacturing solutions for its 4000 MiD system.

Microsaic Systems announced its first OEM agreement for the development of chip-based triple-quadrupole MS. It is with a global scientific firm for applied-markets use.

908 Devices received $2.8 million in funding from the US government’s Technical Support Working Group for development and testing of a handheld device for field-identification and -detection of trace explosives.

In September, Waters officially opened its 2,313 m2 MS headquarters in Wilmslow, UK. It brings together Waters’s existing MS centers in the region consisting of more than 500 employees.

Agilent Technologies is collaborating with scientists at the University of Toronto’s Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research to produce a comprehensive metabolomics MRM library and methodology.

In October, AB SCIEX announced the OneOmics project, an exclusive partnership under which its SWATH Proteomics Cloud Tool Kit suite of applications will be hosted by Illumina’s BaseSpace application store and cloud-based information community.

Product Introductions

Shimadzu launched in August the iMScope TRIO, an advanced imaging-technology platform that supports morphologic imaging from an optical microscope overlaid with molecular-distribution images generated by an ion trap TOF MS for a spatial resolution of 5 µm.

In September, BIOCRATES Life Sciences introduced kits based on target metabolite quantitation for the determination of endogenous bile acids. A panel of up to 19 analytes can be simultaneously quantitated from a 10 µL sample of human or mouse plasma.

Shimadzu released a glycolipid-specific library, containing information on 258 types of glycolipids.

Biognosys introduced Spectronaut 6.0 for the analysis of hyper-reaction–monitoring data. Previously available to the academic community, Spectronaut is now available to industry researchers. New features include QC methods for user libraries and a 40% improvement in speed.

In September, BaySpec released the Portability portable MS, which weighs less than 7.7 kg (17 lbs). It is ambient-desorption–ionization compatible, detects positive and negative ions, and has a low-ppb–detection level.

Extrel introduced the MAX300-EGA quadrupole MS, designed for the analysis of off-gas from thermal analyzers or other continuous-flow systems.