Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Genovis, a leading provider of enzyme products for biological drug development, begin a collaborative research project to develop advanced end-to-end workflows for the preparation, characterization and monitoring of novel and complex biotherapeutics using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS)....
Bruker has been awarded the iF DESIGN AWARD for three different products ranking them among the most innovative instrumentation designers. Prizes were awarded to the FT-IR spectrometers INVENIO and ALPHA II as well as to the FT-NIR spectrometer MPA II in the categories “Industry” and “Medicine/Health” of the discipline “Product Design”....
At the XIIIth Annual Congress of the European Proteomics Association (www.eupa.org), Bruker announces further progress in ultra-high sensitivity, high-throughput 4D proteomics using the timsTOF Pro mass spectrometer. Moreover, new intact protein analysis and next-generation 4D metabolomics workflows are being introduced, which all are available on the same, remarkably flexible timsTOF Pro platform....
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has announced the official opening of its Customer Solution Center in Delhi, India. In collaboration with the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), the new Food Safety Customer Solution Center will focus on meeting and exceeding the demands of scientists in food and beverage laboratories by developing critical workflows and integrated solutions that help build food safety capacity in India....
Thermo Scientific Medical Device portfolio provides an extensive range of chromatography and mass spectrometry instruments for laboratory development test optimization. Thermo Fisher Scientific announces the expansion of its portfolio of analytical instruments for clinical diagnostic laboratories with the addition of three systems now listed as Class I medical devices with the United States Food and Drug Administration (U.S. FDA)....
Coconut water has seen a recent boom in popularity. It is a very lucrative market, with London, England, being the biggest consumer of coconut water in the world (per head). There are at least 40 brands of coconut water in the United Kingdom alone and it can cost up to £4 per litre. With only five countries in the world supplying the majority of coconut water to the West, this surge...
Microsaic Systems has announced the official launch of its latest point-of-need mass spectrometer at Pittcon 2019. Microsaic’s MiD® ProteinID allows users to verify target proteins, metabolites, by-products and feed-stocks throughout the whole bioprocessing value chain.By providing deterministic characterisation for proteins and small molecules at the point-of-need, MiD® ProteinID helps to ensure critical process parameters and critical quality attributes are attained timely, and simultaneously, which is vital for biologics compliance....
Could rubber and plastic from tyres, washing into rivers and streams, be contributing to pollution in waste water? A group of scientists from Denmark are using a system from Renishaw to find out. Microplastics are small, hard-to-spot, particles that make their way—from products and packaging—into the environment and cause significant pollution. The Danish Technological Institute (DTI, Aarhus, Denmark) is using a Renishaw Raman spectroscopy system to...
Flexible coils for magnetic resonance imaging are being designed to search for breast cancer faster and with less disadvantages. In a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a prototype is now being developed in Vienna. Breast cancer is among the most common forms of cancer and is the most frequent type found among women in the western world, making early detection particularly important.....
New Ocean Lab Services offering provides feasibility testing, expertise in experimental design, and consultation capabilities. Ocean Optics, the applied spectral knowledge company, has introduced a lab testing and application consultation service. Ocean Lab Services combines the company’s world-class facilities, machine learning capabilities and decades of experience in optical sensing applications to provide a range of services for various customer application...
Our daily experience with organic (carbon based) materials such as polyethylene shopping bags and polyvinyl chloride insulation on cables suggests that they should be electrical insulators and this is indeed true for the majority of organic materials. However, there exists a small subset of organic materials with a particular electronic structure that are semiconducting in nature and can be used to make optoelectronic devices such as light emitting diodes...
Ocean Optics, the applied spectral knowledge company, has introduced a convenient, manageable cuvette holder for highly accurate, repeatable absorbance and fluorescence measurements. The Square One cuvette holder has three collimating lenses with fiber optic connectors, is designed with an integrated cover to reduce ambient light, and provides a snug, reliable fit for cuvettes and filters to ensure best results....
High-precision chemical fingerprint allows unambiguous identification. EQ BOKU at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna uses high-tech approach to classification of 42 wines. Numerous components of 42 different wines have been analysed using state-of-the-art equipment for the first time. The data generated will provide an extremely accurate basis for definitively characterising different wine varieties, as well as an...
Chromacity, a provider of ultrafast laser systems, today announced the introduction of the Chromacity 520, a 520nm addition to its family of air-cooled ytterbium fibre-based lasers that combine high power with ultrashort pulse durations. The company also announced the commercial availability of the Chromacity OPO, a low-cost, near-infrared optical parametric oscillator....
Configured for maximum customer focus: At this year’s EWCPS 2019 in Pau, France, Analytik Jena demonstrates the continued development of its PlasmaQuant MS series. In the future, customers will be able to configure every system in the ICP-MS series (ICP-MS: mass spectrometry with inductively coupled plasma) to suit their individual requirements. In addition to the PlasmaQuant MS and MS Elite models already available, two additional models are introduced....
The acquisition of B&W Tek LLC by Swiss Metrohm AG in July 2018 creates one of the largest solution providers for applied Raman spectroscopy. Two technology leaders in the field of Raman spectroscopy join forces, and customers all over the world will benefit: That is the key message that Metrohm and B&W Tek are addressing to the market. In addition to the well-established distribution network of B&W Tek, selected Metrohm subsidiaries have started supplying the full range of the B&W Tek product line.
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, has announced that several of its analytical instruments have received multiple prestigious industry awards. These award-winning tools provide scientists across a range of fields and disciplines with the ability to conduct comprehensive proteome profiling and quantitation, biomarker discovery and verification, and the full characterization of complex biotherapeutics....
The Cora Raman spectrometer family from Anton Paar is perfectly suited for the chemical identification or characterization of molecular structures. Cora stands for Compact Raman Analyzer. And that’s what they are: The fast and robust Cora 100 handheld Raman analyzer is ideal for on-the-spot identification of explosives, narcotics, and hazardous materials and for verification measurements on incoming goods....
908 Devices’ High-Pressure Mass Spectrometry (HPMS) Technology to Power Next-Generation Advanced Chemical Threat Detector for U.S. Department of Defense. The company and joint partner Smiths Detection selected to develop Aerosol and Vapor Chemical Agent Detector (AVCAD). 908 Devices Inc., a pioneer of purpose-built analytical devices for chemical and biomolecular analysis, has announced they will provide their...
BioTek Instruments introduces their next generation Epoch™ 2 Microplate Spectrophotometer; with added features that enable multiple conveniences for performing absorbance measurements. Epoch 2 now includes monochromator-based individual wavelength selection or wavelength scanning from 200-999 nm to accommodate an extensive range of assays, including nucleic acid and protein quantification, ELISA, microbial growth, endotoxin, ROS assays and enzyme kinetics...
Data integrity in the context of laboratory analytics is a must, particularly in regulated environments. However, how is data integrity exactly defined, and what are the software features required to achieve it? A new Metrohm white paper answers these questions based on examples from modern Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) Software.Data integrity is commonly defined by a number of properties, which are summarized by the acronyms ALCOA and ALCOA+, respectively...
The analysis of electrolytic etching solutions is a challenge for a large number of laboratories. Complex matrices from concentrated acids and spectral interferences make it difficult to screen for possible impurities. Regular analysis of the solutions is crucial to the quality of subsequent production processes since even the slightest impurities can have severe consequences. The automotive and aviation industries and mechanical engineering are employing electrolytic etching solutions for the surface treatment of metals...