Baltimore, MD -- Excellims, a world leader and innovator in chemical detection by ion mobility spectrometry, announces an exciting new product - the MA3100 high performance ion mobility pre-separator for mass spectrometers. This powerful addition to Excellims’ series of top-of-the-line IMS instruments has been built to interface with multiple mass spectrometer product lines from Thermo [...]

BILLERICA, Mass. & TALLAHASSEE, Fla.--(Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ:BRKR) and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) at Florida State University (FSU) today announced the successful installation of the world’s first 21 Tesla (T) magnet for Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance (FT-ICR). The installation represents the world’s highest field, persistent, superconducting magnet suitable for FT-ICR mass spectrometry, [...]

BALTIMORE –– As protein-based drugs become more important in treating major diseases, producers face the critical challenge of deeply characterizing these highly-complex molecules for efficacy and safety, as well as to meet quality requirements. Now there’s a new software tool designed to increase the speed, quality and confidence in comprehensive biotherapeutic protein characterization useful for [...]

Baltimore, MD -- Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) has signed an agreement with Prosolia, Inc. (Indianapolis, IN) for the exclusive rights to DESI (Desorption Electrospray Ionization) technology for clinical research applications for use with Waters® time-of-flight mass spectrometers, including its SYNAPT® G2 Si and Xevo® G2-XS QTof mass spectrometers. The announcement came at the 62nd conference of [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-– Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has added optimized target deconvolution capabilities to its powerful MassHunter Workstation Software. MassHunter Quantitative Analysis software with Target Deconvolution enables users to effectively remove background matrix ions from data and easily produce targeted quantitative and qualitative results from complex samples. The new feature is [...]

SAN DIEGO -- Analytics leader SAS has developed software to help clinical researchers instantly query and analyze data in the cloud. With the new offering, biopharmaceutical organizations can improve the efficiency and productivity of clinical research and speed lifesaving therapies and devices to market. SAS® Life Science Analytics Framework combines features of SAS Drug Development [...]

BALTIMORE -- Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) today introduced two new Xevo® mass spectrometers and expanded the ionKey/MS System at the 62nd conference of the American Society of Mass Spectrometry (ASMS). The Waters® Xevo G2-XS mass spectrometer, a new high performance benchtop quadrupole time-of-flight (QTofTM) mass spectrometer, and the Xevo TQ-S micro, a new and compact benchtop [...]

BALTIMORE –– Thermo Fisher Scientific today announced that its San Jose, California facility has registered with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a medical device establishment. The site has established a quality in accordance with the FDA Quality System Regulations to design and manufacture devices for analyzing samples from patients for in vitro [...]

BALTIMORE -- Scientists at the forefront of proteomics research can achieve exceptional accuracy and speed using an expanded family of affinity-based consumables for large molecule bioanalysis. The new functionalized pipette tips feature proprietary microcolumn technology designed to enable enhanced, reproducible target purification and reduce complexity in biological samples prior to liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) protocols. [...]

Cambridge, UK -- Horizon Discovery™ Group plc (LSE: HZD) (Horizon), the international life science company supplying research tools to organizations engaged in genomics research and the development of personalized medicines, today announces, together with LGC, an international life sciences measurement and testing company, that they have been offered a research grant of £360,224 ($608,000 USD) [...]