Scientists in Norway will now benefit from a locally-based team that will provide a single point of contact for access to Thermo Fisher Scientific’s full chromatography, mass spectrometry and trace elemental analysis portfolio. The team will also provide comprehensive customer support ranging from instrument installation to laboratory applications assistance. Thermo Fisher has simplified access to its chromatography and mass spectrometry solutions in response to customer demands....
Fast UHPLC Analysis of Cell Penetrating Peptides Using a YMC-Triart C18 column. Cell penetrating peptides (CPPs) are an interesting class of compounds since they are capable of transporting themselves across a cell membrane and also carry so-called “cargo” molecules with them. Due to their advantages over other transport mechanisms they are a focus for current research...
Designed to provide dry down of samples in microplates and glass tubes up to 150 mm in length - the Ultravap® Mistral XT150 blowdown evaporator from Porvair Sciences offers a low maintenance, sample-safe alternative to using water bath-based evaporators. Able to operate at temperatures up to 80°C - nearly all common chromatography solvents including acetonitrile, dichloromethane, hexane, methanol and water can be evaporated with ease by the Ultravap® Mistral XT150...
Waters Corporation has introduced the new Xevo™ TQ Absolute system, the most sensitive and compact benchtop tandem mass spec in its class. Waters’ newest high-performance mass spectrometer is up to 15X more sensitive for quantifying negatively ionizing compounds than its predecessorii and is 45% smaller and uses up to 50% less electricity and gas supply than other high-performance tandem quadrupole mass spectrometers available on the market..
IonSense Inc., the innovator of ambient DART™ (Direct Analysis in Real Time) ionization technology, announces that it has been acquired by Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR). The deal provides IonSense with the financial investments to ramp up development of the DART ionization source technology and increase efforts in developing applications in the applied markets, including food analysis and forensics...
ISC 2022 is the first significant live event since 2019, covering all fields of chromatography and separation science with a large scale of techniques and applications. The major focus of the symposium will be on the impact of chromatography and separation science to meet the needs of the pharmaceutical, environmental, food and health industry as well as chemical science and medicine...
TESTA Analytical Solutions e.K reports how a leading European manufacturer of Chromatography Instrumentation is using its Liquid Chromatography Flowmeter to further improve performance of their top notch HPLC Systems. Flow rate is a critical parameter in HPLC systems, it determines retention time or volume and therefore has a major influence on reproducibility. The TESTA Analytical Liquid Chromatography Flowmeter has set a new standard for non-invasive measurement of flow rate in HPLC, GPC/SEC and Ion chromatography systems....
BioChromato has published an interview with the Department of Biomedical Pharmaceutics at Gifu Pharmaceutical University in Japan that describes how its Smart Evaporator C1 fitted with 4-Kit has revolutionised its aqueous sample preparation. The Department of Biomedical Pharmaceutics, headed by Professor Kiyoyuki Kitaichi, is well known for its pioneering collaborative research on illegal drugs, pharmaceuticals, and new health food ingredients....
Refractive Index detectors are widely used for the analysis of molecules with weak or no UV absorption. TESTA Analytical’s Differential Refractive Index (DRI) Kit for HPLC can be adapted to almost any HPLC system to create a high performance instrument that separates and delivers sensitive detection of ‘RI active’ materials including alcohols, sugars, sacharides, fatty acids and polymers...
Waters Corporation has introduced new software and analytical columns to aid biomolecule drug discovery and development. The new Waters™ Intact Mass app on waters_connect™ allows scientists using the BioAccord™ LC-MS System to confirm the mass of biomolecules and impurities made by synthetic or recombinant processes nearly twice as fast as other commercially available options...
PEAK Scientific, the world leader in the manufacture & support of laboratory grade gas generators, has recently expanded the manufacturing facilities at their Glasgow headquarters. The manufacturing facility has increased from 8,500 square foot to just under, 12,500 square foot which will allow PEAK Scientific to increase their production, increase local employment opportunities and meet increased demands, both now and into the future...
Microtrac’s new STABINO ZETA is an analyzer which provides fast, precise, and reproducible zeta potential measurements in a range of 0.3 nm to 300 µm, with a concentration range of up to 40% by volume. The powerful measuring technology with its high resolution and data point density allows for simultaneous determination of 5 parameters within a few seconds: zeta potential, streaming potential, conductivity, pH value, and temperature...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, enables analytical testing laboratories across a variety of sectors, including food, environmental, industrial and pharma to now meet their ever-increasing efficiency and productivity needs with a collection of new gas chromatography (GC) and GC-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) instruments offering innovative hardware and software updates...
Torrey Pines Scientific, Inc. announces its NEW EchoTherm™ Model CO50 Programmable HPLC Column Chiller/Heater. The unit has a temperature range from 4.0°C to 100.0°C readable and settable to 0.1°C. The PID control software regulates temperatures to ±0.2°C, even at ambient. The CO50 has a Stable Temperature LED that illuminates when the target temperature is stable to within ±0.2°C...
Agilent Technologies has announced that the recipient of the 2022 Darlene Solomon Award is Federica Fiorini, Ph.D., a research associate studying metabolomics at the Institute of Biology and Pathology at the Grenoble Alpes University Hospital (CHU Grenoble Alpes) in France. The award was presented at the iSLS10–10th International Singapore Lipid Symposium held March 8–10 at the National University of Singapore....
BioChromato has published a technical note that compares using Evolved Gas Analysis (EGA) and Thermal Desorption (DART) sample preparation methods for Mass Spectrometry analysis of Nylon 6,6. Synthesized by polycondensation of hexamethylenediamine and adipic acid – Nylon 6,6 is a polyamide or nylon that is commonly used in the textile and plastic industries. Nylon 6,6 is a polymer of choice when high mechanical strength, rigidity, good stability under heat and/or chemical resistance are required....
Tip Biosystems is very pleased to announce the most versatile member of the Photopette® spectrophotometer family to date - the Photopette® Aqua. The handheld and portable “Aqua” is the result of a collaborative effort with Merck to produce a device that can measure numerous aqueous parameters, including Nitrate, Nitrite, Ammonium, Phosphate, and Chlorine, among others....
Porvair Sciences high performance, precision manufactured Vyon® porous plastics are perfect support materials for chromatographic resins used in the isolation and purification steps of pharmaceutical drug and vaccine production. Manufactured from virgin-grade polymers, compliant with EU and US food and pharmaceutical regulations, Vyon® porous plastics were developed in response to industry demands for higher technical specification, cleaner materials with improved physical-chemical properties...
Tired of the slow and tedious process of identifying non-target compounds and/or setting up semi-quantitative analysis for those compounds? Imagine a system that provides superior identification by combining Library Search, Retention Index (RI), and Accurate Mass to confidently ID unknowns. Imagine a system that does so automatically, without the need for tedious standards and visually highlights correct identifications among a long list of possible matches...
Biotage helps shape the sustainable science of tomorrow and our future society for the benefit of humankind – HumanKind Unlimited. With this principle Biotage has set out a commitment to unleashing the potential of humanity by working tirelessly to improve the health and wellbeing of both our customers through greener and more efficient solutions, and our own employees through smarter working practices....
Agilent Technologies Inc. announce that researchers from the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane, Australia, collaborated with Agilent experts on a proof-of-concept FTIR-based saliva COVID-19 testing workflow using the Agilent Cary 630 FTIR Spectrometer. The study investigated the pathophysiological response to a COVID-19 infection through ATR-FTIR spectroscopy....
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Symphogen, an affiliate of and the antibody center of excellence within the international pharmaceutical company Servier, announce the continuation of their collaboration to provide biopharmaceutical discovery and development laboratories with innovative tools and streamlined workflows for efficient characterization of complex therapeutic proteins...