Chicago, IL, PITTCON Booth-—ACD/Labs, a leading cheminformatics company, announced today to PITTCON 2014 the new release of their ACD/Spectrus Platform that enables organizations to apply chemical context to their spectroscopy, spectrometry, and chromatography content. The ACD/Spectrus Platform makes it easier than ever for organizations to manage unified analytical data from multiple techniques and instruments, and [...]

Munich-based nanotechnology specialist attocube took over the majority share in Neaspec GmbH by mid-February. Neaspec and attocube share a common history and the same values: They have been founded as spin-offs from prestigious research institutes (CeNS & Max-Planck-Institute), are passionate in developing excellent products, enabling applications close to the limit of what is physically and [...]

MADISON, Wisconsin –– DNASTAR today announced that ShrimpEX Biotech Services has chosen DNASTAR Lasergene software as its primary sequence assembly and analysis software platform for researchers within its organization. A spokesperson for ShrimpEX said, “As a company participating in product development across a broad range of research areas, it is important to us to have [...]

New spectrometer delivers exceptional stray light performance with high sensitivity Dunedin, Florida, USA -– Now available from Ocean Optics is the Maya LSL spectrometer, a combination of a back-thinned CCD array detector and low stray light optical design resulting in high-sensitivity, high-throughput performance for applications ranging from chemical catalysis to Raman analysis. With rapid response [...]

CHICAGO-- Waters® Corporation (NYSE: WAT) today celebrated the ten-year anniversary of the ACQUITY® UltraPerformance LC® (UPLC®) System, a technology that created a new industry standard for chromatographic performance. Looking forward, Waters today also introduced the newionKey/MS™ System, a new approach for getting exceptional sensitivity, robustness and ease-of-use out of mass spectrometry and featured the ACQUITY [...]

FRANKLIN, Mass. – Hamilton Storage Technologies launches the LabElite™ line of benchtop devices, offering laboratories an easy and efficient way to automatically process and track samples while ensuring sample integrity. LabElite devices quickly process all common labware types, providing a flexible solution for optimizing workflows. Three models are available to meet a user’s application, throughput [...]

Torrance, CA – Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, announces new Kinetex Core-Shell Biphenyl HPLC/UHPLC columns, giving researchers the ideal orthogonal selectivity to traditional C18 phases. This new phase is excellent for a broad range of complex-mixture analyses in clinical research and forensic toxicology, [...]

TSI, a global precision instrumentation provider, and the leader in Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) technology, introduces a ruggedized, handheld LIBS elemental analyzer for field research, quality control, and mobile lab markets. The ChemLogix™ Handheld LIBS instrument features an eye-safe IR-B, Class 1 laser that is powerful enough to remove surface contamination for representative sampling, yet [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-– Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced a next-generation mobile spectroscopy product that is ideal for on-site testing in a broad range of applications, including advanced materials, art, historical objects, geology, agriculture, composites, coatings and polymers. The lightweight, ergonomic 4300 Handheld Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer enables the direct identification and assessment [...]

(Pittcon, Chicago, IL) -- The AccuTOF GCV 4G time-of-flight mass spectrometer that JEOL introduced at last year’s PittCon has received great interest from the mass spectrometry community. JEOL USA, Inc. has received several purchase orders from industrial and academic laboratories, with systems already delivered and installed in the US and Canada. In collaboration with JEOL, [...]