Cliquid MPX Software Doubles Instruments’ Throughput to Help Speed New Drug Candidates to Market CARLSBAD, Calif.--Applied Biosystems, a division of Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE), and its mass spectrometry joint-venture partner, MDS Analytical Technologies, a business unit of MDS Inc. (TSX:MDS) (NYSE:MDZ), today announced the launch of Cliquid® MPX™-2 high-throughput workflow, an end-to-end solution for mass [...]

Former Police Commissioner and Fire Commissioner of New York City WILMINGTON, Mass.--Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCBB:IMSC - News), a supplier of systems and sensors for the homeland security market and related industries, today announced the addition of Howard Safir to the Company’s Board of Directors. Glenn D. Bolduc, Implant Sciences' Chief Executive Officer, commented, "We are [...]

Special Order BD LSRFortessa(TM) Benchtop Flow Cytometry System Supports up to Five Lasers and 18 Colors Simultaneously SAN JOSE, Calif., June 1 -- BD Biosciences, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), announced today the launch of the new special order BD LSRFortessa(TM) cell analyzer, a powerful compact system that provides life science researchers [...]

RapidFire High-Throughput Mass Spectrometry Coupled with Time-of-Flight MS System from Agilent Technologies Detects Protein Kinase Activities, Validates Drug-Drug Interaction Studies WOBURN, Mass.--BioTrove, Inc. today announced it will present data this week demonstrating compatibility of its RapidFire® Mass Spectrometry (RF-MS) system with Agilent Technologies Inc.’s (NYSE:A) Time-of-Flight (TOF) mass spectrometer system for high-throughput screening of protein [...]

PHILADELPHIA, ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry, June 1, 2009 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the 7700 Series Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS) trace element analyzer. This successor to the world's best-selling ICP-MS, the Agilent 7500 Series, provides unmatched data integrity, is simple to operate and occupies the smallest amount of bench [...]

PHILADELPHIA--At the 57th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics (www.asms.org), Bruker Daltonics today launches three completely new, major high-performance mass spectrometry platforms for life-science applications in proteomics, small molecule research and applied markets, as well as in clinical research and IVD applications. With the unprecedented introduction of three major new mass spec product [...]

ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 1 -- Assay Designs, Inc., a leading provider of immunoassay kits, antibodies, and reagents to the life science and translational research markets, has announced the release of the first commercially available multiplex assay dedicated to the analysis of heat shock proteins and molecular chaperones, the MultiBead(TM)* HSP/Chaperone 8-Plex Kit. The bead-based [...]

Guildford and Cambridge, UK, June 1, 2009 – IDBS, a leading provider of innovative data management solutions for research science, announces the formation of a strategic relationship with the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. The Department has selected IDBS’ E-WorkBook as its Chemistry Electronic Laboratory Notebook, and the two organizations have begun [...]

Game-Changing Technology with High Definition MS (HDMS) Defines New Levels of Performance for Exact Mass MS and MS/MS and Opens New Frontiers in Scientific Discovery PHILADELPHIA, June 1 -- Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT - News) announced today the introduction of a powerful next-generation, high performance, mass spectrometer, the Waters® SYNAPT(TM) G2 System. Taking qualitative and [...]

QUEBEC, Canada, and SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 1, 2009 Phytronix Technologies Inc. and Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) announced today they have signed a non-exclusive co-marketing agreement to promote the Phytronix Laser Diode Thermal Desorption (LDTD) Ion Source with Agilent mass spectrometers. The LDTD Ion Source, used with an Agilent MS/MS, for example, offers ultra [...]