The Heck group, in close collaboration with the research group of Alexander Makarov of Thermo Fisher, the inventor of the Orbitrap analyzer, show that protein assemblies of molecular weights over 1 million Da can be analyzed with very high analytical resolving power and exquisite sensitivity down to detection of single ions. The new mass spectrometer [...]

Indianapolis, IN -- BioCrossroads announced today the finalists in a new competition to spur Indiana’s innovation economy. To accelerate entrepreneurial activity and encourage the development of early-stage Indiana life sciences companies, BioCrossroads launched the New Venture Competition, presented by the law firm Krieg DeVault, earlier this year. Altogether, eight companies qualified as finalists, out of [...]

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., the world leader in serving science, and Immundiagnostik AG today announced a collaboration to develop novel mass spectrometry-based assays for qualitative and quantitative analysis of proteins and peptides. The goal is development of commercial assays to be widely applicable in research and routine clinical analysis. The collaboration [...]

TOPTICA introduces the new TeraFlash system, a table-top platform for time-domain terahertz spectroscopy. The all-fiber design is based on mature 1.5 µm telecom technology, combining TOPTICA’s established femtosecond fiber lasers and state-of-the-art InGaAs antennas. Using a highly precise delay stage, the TeraFlash achieves a peak dynamic range of more than 70 dB. Users can choose [...]

Cyprotex PLC (AIM:CRX), the preclinical ADME-Tox services company, today announces a new licensing agreement with Sigma® Life Science (“Sigma”), the innovative biological products and services business of Sigma Aldrich® Corporation (NASDAQ:SIAL). Sigma Life Science has applied its exclusive CompoZr® Zinc Finger Nuclease technology to the ADME-Tox field to create a range of proprietary cell-based assays [...]

Edinburgh Instruments, Photonics Division, Livingston, UK,; Edinburgh Photonics announces the launch of the FLS980 fluorescence spectrometer for steady state, lifetime and phosphorescence measurements in photophysics, photochemistry, biophysics, biochemistry and semiconductor physics. Building on the success of the well-established FLS920 instrument, the FLS980 is a high performance, fully automated modular spectrometer for use in both fundamental [...]

Santa Barbara, CA – Anasys Instruments reports on joint research with the University of Illinois' Department of Engineering where nanotechnology-based materials identification enables critically needed chemical metrology for nano-manufacturing. One of the key achievements of the nanotechnology era is the development of manufacturing technologies that can fabricate nanostructures formed from multiple materials. Such nanometer-scale integration [...]

Boston -- The Broad Institute has selected St. Louis-based Appistry, Inc., to distribute to users at for-profit companies the world’s most widely used software for data processing and variant calling of next-generation sequencing data, the Genome Analysis Toolkit or GATK, and to provide those users with commercial-grade customer support. First developed and introduced by the [...]

Spectro, Inc., a leader in analytical instrumentation and software for machine condition monitoring, announces a new address for its North American headquarters in the Greater Boston area: One Executive Drive, Suite 101 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, 01824. The new, commercial park location has doubled the company’s footprint to approximately 30,000 square feet. The state of the [...]

Andor Technology plc (Andor), a world leader in scientific imaging and modular spectroscopy solutions, is pleased to announce the launch of their latest spinning disk confocal device, the Revolution WD. The new Revolution WD spinning disk confocal solution sets new standards in live cell confocal imaging. It offers spinning disk confocal to research fields, using [...]