Three New Tools Accelerate the Study of Intact Proteins and Peptide Mapping: BioPharmaView™ Software, the TripleTOF® 6600 System, and SWATH™ Acquisition 2.0

AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today introduced its latest additions to a growing line of solutions for the characterization of biotherapeutics such as monoclonal antibodies and emerging protein classes at both the intact protein and peptide levels. These solutions – TripleTOF 6600 system with SWATH and BioPharmaView – are ideal [...]

Agilent Technologies’ Solutions for Supercritical Fluid Chromatography with Mass Spectrometric Detection Streamline High-Volume Analysis of Complex Compounds

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-— Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that all of its LC/MS instruments now include support software for control of supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC/MS). This enhanced capability enables faster separation, orthogonal selectivity to liquid chromatography, and reduced need for organic solvents. Used together, these hardware-software solutions for SFC/MS further streamline the high-volume [...]

Agena Bioscience Announces FDA 510(k) Premarket Clearance of the IMPACT Dx™ Factor V Leiden and Factor II Genotyping Test on the IMPACT Dx™ System

San Diego, Calif. -- Agena Bioscience, Inc., which recently acquired the Bioscience business of Sequenom, Inc., was notified today by Sequenom, Inc. that it received premarket clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the IMPACT Dx™ Factor V Leiden and Factor II Genotyping Test and the IMPACT Dx™ System. The IMPACT Dx™ [...]

New Mass Spectral Library Designed to Streamline Environmental, Food Safety, Clinical Research and Forensic Toxicology Analyses

BALTIMORE –- Laboratories analyzing environmental, clinical research/toxicological, and food samples have a powerful new data tool expected to save time and money while identifying compounds with high levels of confidence. Thermo Fisher Scientific announces its high resolution accurate mass (HRAM) spectral library at the 62nd ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, being held [...]

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 [...]

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