Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI), the leading provider of cannabis testing instruments, and Northern Michigan University (NMU) announce a collaborative relationship in support of NMU’s new 4-year undergraduate degree program in Medicinal Plant Chemistry. This program is intended to complement the emerging cannabis economy with a specific focus on laboratory analysis, experimental horticulture, and entrepreneurship. To […]

NPL has launched the 3D OrbiSIMS – a new molecular imaging technology with the highest reported simultaneous spatial and mass resolutions. Such high performance is essential to reveal the biomolecular complexity in a single cell. The new technology is reported in a Nature Methods paperpublished this week. NPL’s Prof Ian Gilmore and Yulia Panina, PhD student at […]

Leading Diagnostics Companies Combine to Address Diagnostic and Wellness Testing in China Framingham, MA and Shanghai, CN — SCIEX Dignostics, the in vitro diagnostics (IVD) division of SCIEX, a global leader in mass spectrometry in the life sciences industry, announced today that it has formed a joint venture (JV) with Zhejiang Dian Diagnostics (Dian), a leader in the […]

Award to Chinese Scientist Supports the Use of Various Molecular Approaches to Cancer Research SANTA CLARA, Calif. Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Professor Jiandong Jiang has received an Agilent Thought Leader Award in support of his studies on cancer stem cells differentiation induced by natural products. “Cancer is a chronic disease generated […]

Biognosys AG announced today a breakthrough in the development of its next generation proteomics technology that helps scientists to understand complex biological processes. For the first time, Biognosys’ data-independent acquisition (DIA) mass spectrometry workflow has identified and quantified more peptides than sequentially possible with data dependent acquisition (DDA) on a Thermo Scientific™ Q Exactive™ HF. […]

Peak Scientific, the global leader in gas generation for analytical laboratories, has created a unique online calculation tool to help laboratories which use Gas Chromatography (GC) to quickly find the ideal gas solution for their specific GC instrument. The aptly named ‘GC Gas Calculator’ consists of 6 simple questions regarding a user’s GC instrument, such as the […]

Waltham, Mass. — Repligen Corporation (NASDAQ:RGEN) today announced that is has extended a long-term supply agreement with Purolite Life Sciences for the manufacture of Protein A ligands at Repligen’s facilities in Waltham, MA and Lund, Sweden. Repligen is the main strategic supplier of Protein A ligands to Purolite, an emerging player in the Protein A […]

Tokyo, Japan Tokyo based Atonarp Inc., a scientific instrumentation company that designs and manufactures molecular analysis Smart Spectrometer and Buffalo, NY based IMA Life North America (a division of IMA S.p.A., Bologna, Italy) today announced an agreement where Atonarp supplies miniaturized advanced mass spectrometry (AMS) technology to IMA Life, a world leader in the field of aseptic […]

Jetted Agarose – Uniform Particle Size Beads  Llantrisant, South Wales – Jetting technology is a new patented method that produces agarose beads with a very narrow particle size distribution. Purolite is the first Agarose resin provider to produce process-scale volumes of a uniform particle size bead for the purification of recombinant protein and monoclonal antibodies. Jetted resins […]

Hiden Analytical announce a new agreement with The University of California, Berkley Laboratory, to produce their novel dual-layer differential electrochemical flow cell for operation with the Hiden HPR-40 DSA membrane inlet mass spectrometer. The combined differential electrochemical mass spectrometry technique (DEMS) is developed for real-time characterisation of electro-catalytic performance with special relevance to fuel cell […]