Renishaw, a world leader in metrology and spectroscopy technologies, has teamed up with Bruker's Nano Surfaces Division to host a series of workshops on TERS and co-localised AFM Raman.
The latest workshop took place at the end of January at Renishaw's headquarters at New Mills, Wotton-under-Edge, UK. Other workshops are planned to take place throughout the world. An audience of spectroscopists and microscopists recently attended the joint workshop designed to illustrate how to make tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy more accessible to users. Four talks on the techniques, backed by various applications examples...
At the European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry in Münster the Company launches two new mass spectrometers for its global sales
Analytik Jena AG expands its product range: only half a year after the acquisition of the ICP-MS business of the Bruker Corporation in September 2014, Analytik Jena introduces two new ICP-MS products (inductively coupled plasma for use in mass spectronomy) PlasmaQuant ® MS and PlasmaQuant ® MS Elite.The instruments will be unveiled at the European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry (EWCPS)...
Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, report on the use of their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR spectrometer for reaction monitoring studies in the Cronin Group in the Chemistry Department of the University of Glasgow.
Professor Lee Cronin holds the Regius Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. Research in the Cronin Group is motivated by the fascination for complex chemical systems and the desire to construct complex functional molecular architectures that are not based on biologically derived building blocks. They are developing a new approach to the chemical sciences which they call Chemical Cybernetics. This combines...
A new whitepaper from Malvern Instruments provides detailed guidance on the analytical technologies that help to accelerate oral solid dosage (OSD) product formulation to a successful conclusion.
‘Analytical techniques with a place in the oral solid dosage formulation toolkit’ reviews the regulatory and QbD framework associated with OSD formulation and demonstrates how Malvern systems can be used to generate the data required. The goal of formulation is to incorporate an identified drug substance into a successful pharmaceutical product. The regulatory framework for OSD products highlights the need to comprehensively...
Flame brings flexible sensing power to research and teaching labs
Ocean Optics has launched a spectrometer line that combines decades of miniature spectrometer design expertise with industry-leading manufacturing techniques. The Flame spectrometer delivers high thermal stability and low unit to unit variation without compromising the flexibility and configurability that are the hallmark of modular, miniature spectrometers. Features such as interchangeable slits, indicator LEDs and simpler device...
Taking pictures with your camera you may find that images often look okay on a first glimpse, but when zooming in fine details are barely noticeable.
In contrast, the high information density of high resolution images will reveal even the smallest details. Since the introduction of ICP optical emission spectrometry, the spectral resolution has been a main concern with respect to accuracy and sensitivity. The wealth of emission lines from the plasma frequently leads to overlapping between lines of the analyte and that of accompanying elements. In many sample matrices such spectral interferences...
Biologics characterisation from cradle to grave 12th – 13th May 2015 MedImmune Cambridge
Complete characterisation of proteins and peptides is essential across a wide range of industries and applications. The emergence of protein based bio-pharmaceuticals has resulted in increased reliance on the chromatographic and spectrometric techniques used to determine the key quantitative and qualitative attributes of such complex therapeutic entities.
Anasys Instruments reports on the study of cultural heritage painting cross-sections by researchers from UCSB and the Getty Conservation Institute using their breakthrough AFM-based nanoscale mass spectrometry technique.
The analysis of cultural heritage materials presents a number of challenges such as: limited and extremely small samples, complexity of sample structure, the importance of maintaining spatial integrity and, most notably, the rarity of the samples. These limitations present specific challenges for the identification of many traditional organic dyes, particularly in paintings that may have multiple original paint layers (depending on the artist’s...
A new whitepaper from Malvern Instruments on Oral Solid Dose (OSD) deformulation demonstrates how the analytical technique of Morphologically Directed Raman Spectroscopy (MDRS) can be used to accelerate the development of generic products to a successful conclusion.
Deformulation, the unpicking and investigation of a reference labeled drug (RLD), enables generic developers to understand the features of a product that define its clinical performance. “Accelerating the deformulation workflow for oral solid dosage forms” reviews the current regulatory landscape associated with generic development and considers the workflow for preparing OSD product Abbreviated New Drug Applications (ANDAs)...
Waters Corporation has announced that its ionKey/MS System™ was ranked among thetop analytical instrument innovations of 2014 by TheAnalytical Scientist magazine.
Introduced at Pittcon 2014, ionKey/MS represents a new approach for achieving exceptional sensitivity, robustness and ease-of-use out of mass spectrometry for applications as far-ranging as bioanalyses, pharmacokinetic studies, and biomarker validation to food safety and environmental analyses. Intended for use with the Waters ACQUITY® UPLC® M-Class System and Waters mass spectrometers including the Xevo® TQ-S Mass Spectrometer and SYNAPT® G2-Si Mass Spectrometer, the Waters® ionKey/MS System physically integrates a UPLC separation into the mass spectrometer....
TSQ Endura LC-MS delivers high sensitivity, extreme uptime
Laboratories performing clinical research and other high throughput LC-MS workflows have access to a new triple quadrupole platform designed for higher uptime than any competitive instrument. The Thermo Scientific Endura triple stage quadrupole mass spectrometer shares much of the advanced technology of the Thermo Scientific TSQ Quantiva MS system developed at the same time to transform the triple quadrupole LC-MS category.....
Since its introduction into the market, High-Resolution Continuum Source (HR-CS) AAS has revolutionized the world of spectroscopy.
contrAA® instruments provide this technology for Flame, Graphite Furnace and Hydride analysis, including solid AA®. With the latest technical and software upgrades HR-CS AAS becomes even more powerful. Now also simultaneous evaluation of multiple element wavelengths is possible. As the Xenon lamp as continuous radiation source allows to use any wavelength, non-metals and "classical" AAS elements can be analyzed together in the same...
Bruker Optics today announced the release of the new networking software ONET.
The software is a server application accessed via a browser-based web interface (WebUI), allowing to set up, administrate and control a network of FT-NIR instruments from a central remote location anywhere in the world. All data measured on local spectrometers are stored first locally and replicated to a ONET database for central access. Dr. Joerg-Peter Conzen, Vice President of Bruker Optics, stated: "I am excited about...
Edinburgh Instruments is pleased to announce the launch of a new version of their Fluoracle software for the FS5 Spectrofluorometer.
The Fluoracle Software has been designed to provide support for TCSPC measurements and add further high performance capabilities to the FS5. Mark Vosloo, CEO of Edinburgh Instruments commented, “We believe in remaining at the forefront of leading edge technology development. Fluoracle enhance TCSPC measurements and delivers not only high performance results for us but also for our customers. To stay ahead, we continuously work hard to deliver faster, reliable and accurate analytical instrumentation.”
Specialised imaging has announces a new version of its popular SIM Ultra Fast Framing Camera that includes an integral auxilary port enabling the system to be interfaced with high speed video, streak cameras, mass spectrometers or time resolved spectrometers.
Incorporating a supplementary optical port, that uses a beamsplitter to deliver 50% of the primary image to a secondary image plane, allowing secondary instruments to share the same optical axis, thereby providing true undistorted datasets for simultaneous data measurement. Recording simultaneous ultra fast two-dimensional and time-resolved images is of significant interest to scientists in a growing number of fields of study including...
Edinburgh Instruments is pleased to announce the release of 310 nm picosecond pulsed LED with a sub-800 picosecond typical pulse width.
This is first of many forthcoming new product releases to have such a low pulse width and is optimised for Time Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC). The EPLED 310 is a compact, robust, maintenance free, fully integrated system supplied in a single package. It is pre-adjusted for an optimum pulse width of <800 ps with particular attention paid to reducing a long tail in the temporal profile. EPLED diode lasers provide a...
Analytik, leading suppliers of innovative analytical instrumentation, announce the UK and Ireland availability of the ASD QualitySpec Trek Portable Vis-NIR Spectrometer.
Analytik are exclusive UK and Ireland suppliers of ASD’s high performance portable and handheld spectrometers for the field, lab and factory. They will work with prospective users on their applications challenges to produce a solution with the full support of the ASD, a PANalytical company team, based in Colorado, USA. QualitySpec Trek is a truly portable full-range near-infrared spectrometer that is fast, accurate and easy to use. From...
ESA’s comet-chasing mission Rosetta was launched on the 2nd of March 2004 and through a complex series of flybys (three times past Earth and once past Mars) arrived ten years after at its destination: comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
In June 2011, Rosetta was put into deep-space hibernation for the coldest, most distant leg of the journey (800 million kilometres from the sun) and was woken up on 20th of January 2014. Finally, Rosetta was set on comet’s orbit on August 2014 to achieve a successful landing of Philae lander on 12th of November 2014. Comets are the primitive building blocks of the Solar System and the likely source of many elements such as water and...
Molecular Profiles Ltd., a subsidiary of Columbia Laboratories, Inc. and Maryland-based Xceleron have announced a collaboration to assist drug developers with improved efficiency during clinical development.
This partnership extends Molecular Profiles’ new ROADMAP to Clinical Trials enabling technologies platform, which it launched earlier this month. The company also has complementary collaborations in place with Onyx Scientific and XenoGesis that broaden its expertise to give clients an end-to-end solution using a connected network of industry experts allowing it to compete with larger CROs...
Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed a method to analyze food and environmental matrices for the presence of alkylphenol compounds using a GC-MS/MS system with automated selected reaction monitoring (AutoSRM).
Application Note 10407: Analysis of Alkylphenols Using GC-MS/MS and Automated SRM Development demonstrates the combined analytical power of the Thermo Scientific TRACE 1310 GC, the Thermo Scientific TSQ Duo triple quadrupole mass spectrometer and the Thermo Scientific Dionex Chromeleon Chromatography Data System (CDS) software to detect and quantify alkylphenol compounds in water and solid samples....
Introducing the the new maXis II™ – UHR-qTOF Mass Spectrometer
Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) announced today, the evolution of their maXis™ line of ultrahigh-resolution quadrupole time-of-flight (UHR-qTOF) mass spectrometers, bringing industry-leading resolution and mass accuracy to the liquid chromatography, time-of-flight MS market space. The system, announced at IBC’s 18th annual Well Characterized Biologicals Conference, is designed to deliver outstanding resolution and mass accuracy which allows for unambiguous identification of the mono-isotopic mass peak of both the light and heavy chains of monoclonal antibodies....
Read MoreMagritek Reports on the Use of their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR System in the Undergraduate Teaching Program at Long Beach City CollegeNov 14, 2014
Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, report on the use of their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR spectrometer in the undergraduate teaching program at Long Beach City College under the leadership of Dr Marlon Jones.
Dr Marlon Jones is an Instructor of Chemistry in the Physical Science Department at Long Beach City College (LBCC). The College has served the community for more than eighty years through exceptional educational and student support services opportunities to help them succeed including moving on to full time university education. His teaching goals for the Organic Chemistry course at LBCC are to ensure that students have a fundamental understanding of the basic aspects of...
The latest workshop took place at the end of January at Renishaw's headquarters at New Mills, Wotton-under-Edge, UK. Other workshops are planned to take place throughout the world. An audience of spectroscopists and microscopists recently attended the joint workshop designed to illustrate how to make tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy more accessible to users. Four talks on the techniques, backed by various applications examples...
Analytik Jena AG expands its product range: only half a year after the acquisition of the ICP-MS business of the Bruker Corporation in September 2014, Analytik Jena introduces two new ICP-MS products (inductively coupled plasma for use in mass spectronomy) PlasmaQuant ® MS and PlasmaQuant ® MS Elite.The instruments will be unveiled at the European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry (EWCPS)...
Professor Lee Cronin holds the Regius Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. Research in the Cronin Group is motivated by the fascination for complex chemical systems and the desire to construct complex functional molecular architectures that are not based on biologically derived building blocks. They are developing a new approach to the chemical sciences which they call Chemical Cybernetics. This combines...
‘Analytical techniques with a place in the oral solid dosage formulation toolkit’ reviews the regulatory and QbD framework associated with OSD formulation and demonstrates how Malvern systems can be used to generate the data required. The goal of formulation is to incorporate an identified drug substance into a successful pharmaceutical product. The regulatory framework for OSD products highlights the need to comprehensively...
Ocean Optics has launched a spectrometer line that combines decades of miniature spectrometer design expertise with industry-leading manufacturing techniques. The Flame spectrometer delivers high thermal stability and low unit to unit variation without compromising the flexibility and configurability that are the hallmark of modular, miniature spectrometers. Features such as interchangeable slits, indicator LEDs and simpler device...
In contrast, the high information density of high resolution images will reveal even the smallest details. Since the introduction of ICP optical emission spectrometry, the spectral resolution has been a main concern with respect to accuracy and sensitivity. The wealth of emission lines from the plasma frequently leads to overlapping between lines of the analyte and that of accompanying elements. In many sample matrices such spectral interferences...
Complete characterisation of proteins and peptides is essential across a wide range of industries and applications. The emergence of protein based bio-pharmaceuticals has resulted in increased reliance on the chromatographic and spectrometric techniques used to determine the key quantitative and qualitative attributes of such complex therapeutic entities.
The analysis of cultural heritage materials presents a number of challenges such as: limited and extremely small samples, complexity of sample structure, the importance of maintaining spatial integrity and, most notably, the rarity of the samples. These limitations present specific challenges for the identification of many traditional organic dyes, particularly in paintings that may have multiple original paint layers (depending on the artist’s...
Deformulation, the unpicking and investigation of a reference labeled drug (RLD), enables generic developers to understand the features of a product that define its clinical performance. “Accelerating the deformulation workflow for oral solid dosage forms” reviews the current regulatory landscape associated with generic development and considers the workflow for preparing OSD product Abbreviated New Drug Applications (ANDAs)...
Introduced at Pittcon 2014, ionKey/MS represents a new approach for achieving exceptional sensitivity, robustness and ease-of-use out of mass spectrometry for applications as far-ranging as bioanalyses, pharmacokinetic studies, and biomarker validation to food safety and environmental analyses. Intended for use with the Waters ACQUITY® UPLC® M-Class System and Waters mass spectrometers including the Xevo® TQ-S Mass Spectrometer and SYNAPT® G2-Si Mass Spectrometer, the Waters® ionKey/MS System physically integrates a UPLC separation into the mass spectrometer....
Laboratories performing clinical research and other high throughput LC-MS workflows have access to a new triple quadrupole platform designed for higher uptime than any competitive instrument. The Thermo Scientific Endura triple stage quadrupole mass spectrometer shares much of the advanced technology of the Thermo Scientific TSQ Quantiva MS system developed at the same time to transform the triple quadrupole LC-MS category.....
contrAA® instruments provide this technology for Flame, Graphite Furnace and Hydride analysis, including solid AA®. With the latest technical and software upgrades HR-CS AAS becomes even more powerful. Now also simultaneous evaluation of multiple element wavelengths is possible. As the Xenon lamp as continuous radiation source allows to use any wavelength, non-metals and "classical" AAS elements can be analyzed together in the same...
The software is a server application accessed via a browser-based web interface (WebUI), allowing to set up, administrate and control a network of FT-NIR instruments from a central remote location anywhere in the world. All data measured on local spectrometers are stored first locally and replicated to a ONET database for central access. Dr. Joerg-Peter Conzen, Vice President of Bruker Optics, stated: "I am excited about...
The Fluoracle Software has been designed to provide support for TCSPC measurements and add further high performance capabilities to the FS5. Mark Vosloo, CEO of Edinburgh Instruments commented, “We believe in remaining at the forefront of leading edge technology development. Fluoracle enhance TCSPC measurements and delivers not only high performance results for us but also for our customers. To stay ahead, we continuously work hard to deliver faster, reliable and accurate analytical instrumentation.”
Incorporating a supplementary optical port, that uses a beamsplitter to deliver 50% of the primary image to a secondary image plane, allowing secondary instruments to share the same optical axis, thereby providing true undistorted datasets for simultaneous data measurement. Recording simultaneous ultra fast two-dimensional and time-resolved images is of significant interest to scientists in a growing number of fields of study including...
This is first of many forthcoming new product releases to have such a low pulse width and is optimised for Time Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC). The EPLED 310 is a compact, robust, maintenance free, fully integrated system supplied in a single package. It is pre-adjusted for an optimum pulse width of <800 ps with particular attention paid to reducing a long tail in the temporal profile. EPLED diode lasers provide a...
Analytik are exclusive UK and Ireland suppliers of ASD’s high performance portable and handheld spectrometers for the field, lab and factory. They will work with prospective users on their applications challenges to produce a solution with the full support of the ASD, a PANalytical company team, based in Colorado, USA. QualitySpec Trek is a truly portable full-range near-infrared spectrometer that is fast, accurate and easy to use. From...
In June 2011, Rosetta was put into deep-space hibernation for the coldest, most distant leg of the journey (800 million kilometres from the sun) and was woken up on 20th of January 2014. Finally, Rosetta was set on comet’s orbit on August 2014 to achieve a successful landing of Philae lander on 12th of November 2014. Comets are the primitive building blocks of the Solar System and the likely source of many elements such as water and...
This partnership extends Molecular Profiles’ new ROADMAP to Clinical Trials enabling technologies platform, which it launched earlier this month. The company also has complementary collaborations in place with Onyx Scientific and XenoGesis that broaden its expertise to give clients an end-to-end solution using a connected network of industry experts allowing it to compete with larger CROs...
Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) announced today, the evolution of their maXis™ line of ultrahigh-resolution quadrupole time-of-flight (UHR-qTOF) mass spectrometers, bringing industry-leading resolution and mass accuracy to the liquid chromatography, time-of-flight MS market space. The system, announced at IBC’s 18th annual Well Characterized Biologicals Conference, is designed to deliver outstanding resolution and mass accuracy which allows for unambiguous identification of the mono-isotopic mass peak of both the light and heavy chains of monoclonal antibodies....
Dr Marlon Jones is an Instructor of Chemistry in the Physical Science Department at Long Beach City College (LBCC). The College has served the community for more than eighty years through exceptional educational and student support services opportunities to help them succeed including moving on to full time university education. His teaching goals for the Organic Chemistry course at LBCC are to ensure that students have a fundamental understanding of the basic aspects of...