CovalX: High-Mass MALDI

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MALDI’s ability to nondestructively ionize biological materials makes it valuable in proteomics applications, including protein identification and sequencing determination. Nevertheless, MALDI comes with limitations when analyzing large molecules, including dissociating weak covalent bonds and a low efficiency in detecting masses above 30–50 kDa. CovalX was founded more than four years ago in Zurich, Switzerland, to […]

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Nucleic Acid Amplification

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Company Announcements Monsanto is developing field tests for biotech crops using TwistDx’s Recombinase Polymerase Amplification (RPA) technology. BioTrove announced a collaboration with the FDA to investigate the use of its OpenArray Standardized NanoArray PCR (SNAP) gene expression profiling system for detection of pathogens in the US’s blood supply. In September, QIAGEN acquired additional licenses from […]

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Carbon Dioxide Analysis Heats Up

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Over the last few decades, governments and businesses worldwide have been galvanized to address the threat of global warming. In December, 170 countries will meet in an attempt to pass the Copenhagen Protocol, the successor to 2005’s Kyoto Protocol. Set to expire in 2012, the Kyoto Protocol calls for a 5.2% yearly reduction in emissions […]

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