Newark, DE -- B&W Tek, Inc., an advanced instrumentation company that delivers lab quality Raman spectroscopy solutions through user-friendly mobile platforms, is proud to announce the enhanced TacticID handheld Raman spectrometer, featuring new functionality and safety. The TacticID has been enhanced in three significant areas; user safety, mixture analysis, and library volume. With safety as [...]

LUXEMBOURG -- Advanced Biological Laboratories (ABL), S.A., announces the signing of a licensing and collaboration agreement with Tute Genomics. ABL is also pleased to announce the commercial launch of OncoChek™ for managing and analysing genomics data in the field of oncology. “With the continuous pipeline of new features appearing in the Tute Genomics platform including [...]

Baltimore, Maryland -- Shimadzu Corporation announced today the release of the new mutual support between the Skyline quantitative proteomics software and Shimadzu's high sensitivity triple quadrupole LC/MS/MS platform. As mass spectrometry-based proteomics technologies continue to play an ever-increasing role in biomarker discovery, validation and translation for biological and clinical applications, advances in throughput and multiplexing [...]

Brisbane, CA -- CareDx, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company focused on the development and commercialization of clinically differentiated, high value, non-invasive surveillance solutions for transplant recipients,today announced that it has entered into a multi-year supply agreement with Illumina, Inc. that will provide access to next generation sequencing, microarray equipment and consumables to the CareDx reference [...]

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 [...]