Owlstone Introduces UltraFAIMS for Improved Mass Spectrometry

Cambridge, UK and Norwalk, CT, USA -- Owlstone Ltd, a developer of next-generation chemical sensing products and solutions, today announced the commercial launch of its UltraFAIMS series of products, developed to enhance mass spectrometry (MS) by quickly simplifying complex mass spectra, separating isobaric ions and reducing background. The new products were launched today at the [...]

Waters Progenesis QI for Proteomics Version 2.0 Unveiled at ASMS with New Features

Baltimore, MD -- Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) today unveiled Progenesis® QI for proteomics Version 2.0, the latest advance in proteomics data analysis software, which enables more rapid and reliable quantification and identification of differentially changing proteins in laboratory samples than ever before. The release of Progenesis QI for proteomics Version 2.0 expands Waters’® suite of focused, [...]

New Thermo Scientific High Resolution Accurate Mass LC-MS System Can Scan 50 Percent Faster than Predecessor

BALTIMORE -- When it comes to pursuing breakthroughs in proteomics research, there’s no such thing as too much scanning speed, as long as data quality remains high. Addressing this demand is the latest addition to the best-selling Q Exactive family of Thermo Scientific liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) systems, the Thermo Scientific Q Exactive HF instrument. [...]

Protein Metrics Announces Release of Preview™ Software as Freeware to the Proteomics and Biopharmaceutical Communities

SAN CARLOS, Calif. -- Protein Metrics, Inc., a leading provider of software for rapid and thorough protein and peptide characterization, today announced the release of a freeware version of their Preview™ software for pre-search protein analysis available for download from the company's website "We are thrilled to contribute our Preview software and its capabilities to [...]

SHIMADZU and DECTRIS Ltd. Signed Frame Contract about the Delivery of DETECTORS

Kyoto (Japan) -- Hiroyuki Murakita, General Manager of X-ray/Surface Analysis Business Unit at SHIMADZU Corporation and Clemens Schulze-Briese, CSO at DECTRIS Ltd. signed a frame contract about the delivery of detectors for the x-ray diffraction systems of SHIMADZU. Due to the outstanding reputation of DECTRIS detectors in the X-ray diffraction market, SHIMADZU signed a delivery [...]

Inscopix Launches $1 Million DECODE Grant Program For Neural Circuit-Level Investigation of Brain Disease

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Inscopix, Inc. ("Inscopix") today announced the launch of its DECODE (Deciphering Circuit Basis of Disease) Grant Program in response to President Obama's "all hands on deck" call to action for the BRAIN Initiative. Through the $ 1 Million DECODE Grant Program, Inscopix hopes to bolster extramural research efforts for investigating how [...]

Prosolia Introduces the Velox 360

Prosolia, Inc., the developer and manufacturer of innovative sample introduction and ionization devices for mass spectrometry, introduces the Velox 360TM, an automated system for direct dried biofluid analysis. The Velox 360 was uniquely designed to enable paper mediated separation of compounds in complex matrices followed direct electrospray ionization for mass spectrometry. Closely coupled to the [...]

Bruker Announces Powerful New Mass Spectrometry Systems and Solutions for Life-Science Research, Clinical Research, Biopharma and Applied Markets

BALTIMORE -- At the 62nd ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics today, Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ:BRKR) today announced mass spectrometry-based product introductions for life-science research and proteomics, for clinical research, for pharma/biopharma/CRO customers, as well as for applied and industrial markets. The new systems and solutions are designed to deliver confident analyses with significantly [...]

PicoQuant goes beyond the diffraction limit with STED

Berlin (Germany)-– PicoQuant GmbH, specialist in the field of single photon counting applications, will release a super-resolution upgrade to its confocal microscopy system MicroTime 200. The STED (stimulated emission depletion) upgrade will be presented to the public for the first time during a product demonstration at PicoQuant's 20th International Workshop on “Single Molecule Spectroscopy and [...]

Anti-Counterfeiting Program in Ghana Now Using Advanced Handheld Detection Technology

TEWKSBURY, Mass. -- Ghana-based Center for Pharmaceutical Advancement and Training (CePAT), part of the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention’s (USP) Global Health Impact Program, is now using handheld anti-counterfeiting technology in its fight to detect fake anti-malaria drugs, a major problem in Ghana and Sub-Saharan Africa. Thermo Scientific TruScan instruments are ideal for the CePAT effort because [...]

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