Berlin, Germany, – Alacris Theranostics GmbH announced today that it has successfully completed Illumina CSPro™ certification for next generation sequencing (NGS); gaining entry to an elite global group of Illumina genomics service providers. Illumina Inc., a San Diego-based company, provides leading-edge genetic analysis tools to genomics centers worldwide. Illumina CSPro is the collaborative service provider [...]

Matthews, North Carolina – CEM Corporation, a leading global provider of microwave laboratory instrumentation is pleased to announce its contribution of a new chapter on microwave peptide synthesis, which appears in Microwaves in Organic Synthesis, Volume 2, Third Edition, edited by Professor Antonio de la Hoz and Dr. André Loupy. The chapter entitled, “Microwave-Enhanced Synthesis [...]

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced a new series of HaloPlex next-generation sequencing panels targeting specific disease states. Two catalog products, the HaloPlex Cancer Research Panel and the HaloPlex Cardiomyopathy Research Panel, plus five predesigned research panels for arrhythmia, ICCG genomic regions, X chromosome, Noonan syndrome, and connective tissue disorders are now available. Used [...]

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the GC/MS/MS Pesticide Residue Analysis Guide, a comprehensive reference developed by Dr. Katerina Mastovska, the head of Excellcon International, LLC., in collaboration with scientists from the California Department of Food and Agriculture, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, and Agilent. The detailed compendium outlines complete instructions [...]

ST. PAUL, Minn. – 3M Food Safety announces the launch of the 3M™ Petrifilm™ Salmonella Express System, a new pathogen detection technology that builds upon a solid platform of pathogen detection solutions. Immediately available worldwide, this system is focused on Salmonella, which comprises nearly half of all pathogen testing. Though not previously available as a [...]

Edgewood, MD, - Smiths Detection’s Multi-Mode Threat Detector (MMTD) has passed stringent quality tests carried out by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for portable Explosive Trace Detection (ETD) technologies. The hand-held MMTD now meets all portable ETD requirements identified in the TSA’s Explosive Trace Detector Functional Requirements Document. Ted Grant, Smiths Detection’s Director of [...]

MINNEAPOLIS –- Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) today unveiled the new Waters® SYNAPT® G2-Si Mass Spectrometer at the 61st conference of the American Society of Mass Spectrometry (ASMS). The company is also previewing its UNIFI® CCS Research Edition and the new TransOmics Version 2.0 informatics products for the new SYNAPT G2-Si mass spectrometer and demonstrating their benefits [...]

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced three enhancements for its LC and LC/MS products. The company has increased mass scan speeds on its LC/MS single quadrupole instruments, launched the StreamSelect LC/MS system, and released new MassHunter walk-up software. "These enhancements to our LC and LC/MS product lines will increase the efficiency and reliability of [...]

MINNEAPOLIS - ASMS 2013 –– Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, introduced the Thermo Scientific Orbitrap Fusion Tribrid liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) system, combining its three mass analyzers –quadrupole, Orbitrap and linear ion trap – in a novel “Tribrid” architecture that offers unprecedented depth of analysis of complex biological samples. The [...]

Minneapolis, MN -- Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced that the new Genedata Expressionist for Mass Spectrometry will be showcased at the 61st ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry. Compatible with data formats of all major MS vendors, Genedata Expressionist software significantly improves MS lab [...]