Waters Corporation and Genovis AB are formally collaborating to develop and market complete routine biopharmaceutical characterization workflows based on the Waters™ BioAccord™ LC-MS System, Andrew+ pipetting robot and Genovis SmartEnzymes™. The goal of the collaboration is to develop automated workflows for the rapid and consistent characterization of critical quality attributes (CQAs) of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and other protein-based drugs in bioprocess development...
Agilent Technologies Inc. announces that Octagon Therapeutics has been awarded an Agilent Golden Ticket at LabCentral. The Golden Ticket was presented to Octagon during a virtual online event on March 24 and provides funding for one scientist’s lab bench space for a year, including the benefit of LabCentral's shared infrastructure and services. The three semi-finalists, Octagon Therapeutics, Rizana Therapeutics, and Nuakea Therapeutics presented compelling and innovative research propositions...
BioChromato Inc. has published an interview with the Institute of Analytical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Fukuoka (Fukuoka, Japan) that explains how a Smart Evaporator C10 has enabled them to concentrate amino acids, without denaturation, such that they can be detected by LC/MS/MS. Researchers at the Institute of Analytical Sciences conducting fundamental metabolomics research on the state of cultured cells, wished to measure amino acids produced in their cell culture medium....
Municipal utility laboratories, contract testing laboratories, and local or regional governing agencies performing water testing can now benefit from a new, validated application workflow using ion chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (IC-MS/MS) to achieve haloacetic acid (HAA) analysis in drinking water in accordance with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Method 557 (EPA 557).
Porvair Sciences has launched its new generation Ultravap® Levante nitrogen blowdown sample evaporator. The second generation system offers the many benefits associated with Porvair's flagship evaporator, the Ultravap® Mistral, in an affordable, easy-to-use package. This state-of-the-art single microplate evaporator is designed to meet the current needs of most chromatography laboratories...
Markes International Ltd has launched a next-generation passive sampler that combines all the benefits of radial and axial VOC samplers, in an evolution of design that the company says will ultimately make large scale air monitoring studies easier to run and more affordable: the Pocket Diffuser Sampler (‘POD’ Sampler)...
Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS), are pleased to announce a further consolidation of their Merck relationship after being appointed as an official distributor for the Merck – Supelco® Range of Analytical Products. Comprising of over 500,000 products, the comprehensive range from SLS provides a solution to most applications...
High performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) is the industry standard for cannabinoid extraction, but Centrifugal Partition Chromatography (CPC) offers a cost effective alternative with comparable yields and purity. Below we describe how each method works and what differences to take into consideration during cannabis testing....
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Protein Metrics, a developer of world-class software tools for protein characterization, have entered into a non-exclusive co-marketing agreement to provide advanced mass spectrometry data processing and analysis capabilities to drive innovation across the full spectrum of biopharmaceutical and proteomics applications...
Waters Corporation has released the ACQUITY RDa™ Detector featuring SmartMS™, the company’s newest time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometer (MS) for small molecule analysis for pharmaceutical, academic, food, and forensics applications. The accurate-mass ACQUITY™ RDa Detector can be quickly deployed and operated to enable faster and more informed decision-making across a broad set of applications....
Navigo Proteins GmbH, a premier protein engineering company, developer of affinity ligands for custom chromatography solutions, and eleva GmbH (“Eleva”), a manufacturer of superior biologics derived from its proprietary moss expression system, announce the successful implementation of a customized affinity chromatography resin into the purification process of Eleva’s Complement- Factor H, CPV-101, for its coming clinical development.
Agilent Technologies Inc. has introduced the Agilent 8697 Headspace Sampler, the first headspace sampler with integrated gas chromatography communication. It marks the expansion of intelligence capability that was first launched with the Agilent Intuvo 9000 GC System in 2016 and later in 2019 with the Agilent 8890 and 8860 GC Systems.
The ionRocket from BioChromato Inc. is a temperature-heating device for direct thermal desorption and pyrolysis of samples, prior to ionization and analysis by mass spectrometry. Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry (DART-MS) is a proven technique that enables rapid analysis of both solid and liquid samples under standard laboratory conditions without sample preparation....
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the release of MassHunter Workstation Plus 11.0, MassHunter Networked Workstation 11.0, and MassHunter BioConfirm. The latest revision of these software enables data integrity consistent with the regulatory requirements from the US FDA and EU EMEA guidance, providing user management, checksums, tamper detection, and audit trails...
Addressing the need for increased flexibility, speed and accuracy in research applications throughout academic and industry laboratories, a new gas chromatography (GC) high-resolution mass spectrometer (MS) with unrivalled mass resolving power, sensitivity and wide dynamic range offers researchers the capability to achieve new depths of analysis and drive scientific understanding....
Proteomics, clinical peptides and biopharmaceutical research laboratories performing high throughput, high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), or liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) analysis can now benefit from novel capillary chromatography columns and nano- and capillary emitters, specifically designed for highly sensitive top-down, middle-down analysis....
Bioprocess researchers undertaking high-density mammalian, bacterial or microbial cell culture separations can now benefit from a next-generation single-use, sterilized, closed-system BioProcess Container (BPC) designed to offer a highly efficient alternative for harvesting by centrifugation. Developed specifically for use with the Thermo Scientific Sorvall BIOS 16 Centrifuge, the single-use, sterilized, closed-system Thermo Scientific CentriPAK BPC enables...
Thermo Scientific Vanquish Online 2D-Liquid Chromatography (LC) Systems offer a robust and flexible platform for pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical R&D, food safety, environmental testing, omics and polymer analysis scientists to characterize complex samples in-depth with the highest confidence. The Vanquish Online 2D-LC system leverages the performance and ease of use of the innovative Vanquish technology, while offering maximum application flexibility and versatility for multi-dimensional liquid chromatography....
Peak Scientific, the global leader in laboratory gas generation, has launched its latest innovation designed to provide a long-term cost-effective gas solution for Shimadzu high-flow LC-MS/MS systems, including the latest LCMS-8060NX. Modelled on the market leader’s best-selling Genius XE nitrogen gas generator, Peak Scientific’s all-new Genius XE SMZ offers Shimadzu customers a tailored solution in a compact unit....
Malvern Panalytical, a leading analytical instrument supplier, will launch a new version of Aeris compact X-ray diffractometer (XRD) at a digital event on February 23, 2021 at 2.00 PM CET. This next generation of XRD instruments will give the user additional methods for analyses traditionally only available in multipurpose floor-standing systems. The event will feature several engaging presentations from Malvern Panalytical’s panel of experts, as well as a live demo of the new Aeris....
In response to laboratories’ need to minimize in-person contact during the pandemic, Thermo Fisher Scientific now offers its essential Thermo Scientific Dionex Easion and Thermo Scientific Dionex Aquion Ion Chromatography (IC) systems through easy, online ordering. The newly introduced online purchase option makes it possible for environmental and academic laboratories to order the complete Dionex Easion and Dionex Aquion IC product packages — including anion or cation column sets...
Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS), the UK’s largest independent supplier of scientific products are pleased to announce further consolidation of their relationship with Merck through their appointment as an official distributor for the Merck – Supelco® Range of Analytical Products. Comprising of over 500,000 products, the comprehensive range from SLS provides a solution for most applications....