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...
High Throughput Screening for Raman chemical analyzers
HORIBA Scientific, a leading innovator in the manufacture of high performance scientific and analytical equipment, is announcing the release of its new MultiWell module for the acclaimed LabSpec 6 Spectroscopy Suite. The module transforms the HORIBA portfolio of Raman microscopes into efficient high throughput chemical analyzers, coupling the non-destructive chemically rich analysis with high sample turn around and fast return on...
Anasys Instruments reports on the new AFM-IR results from the Energy Research Group at NIST just published in the journal for Advanced Optical Materials. The paper is entitled “Nanoscale imaging and spectroscopy of plasmonic modes with the PTIR technique.”
Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) and the University of Maryland have used photothermal induced resonance (PTIR) to characterize individual plasmonic nanomaterials in order to obtain absorption maps and the first examples of absorption spectra with nanometer-scale resolution. Nanostructuring of plasmonic materials enables engineering of their resonant optical response and creates new opportunities for applications that benefit from...
Improved workflow using automated sample preparation for analysis of Vitamin D levels by Mass Spectrometry.
Beckman Coulter's Biomek NXp Workstation allows for reduced technician time and an improved workflow using automated sample preparation for analysis of Vitamin D levels by Mass Spectrometry. With already developed methods and applications support, you can track sample information from preparation to final MS data. Most importantly, you get the hands-off approach you need to produce precise, consistent results that help you achieve your goals...
Proteome Discoverer™ users can generate spectral libraries with Spectronaut™ software
Biognosys AG, a Swiss Proteomics Company, announced today the new release of its Spectronaut™ software for analysis of Hyper Reaction Monitoring (HRM) data that will now support spectral library generation from the Thermo Scientific™ Proteome Discoverer™ platform. From August 2013 Spectronaut™ software supports the analysis of DIA data generated on the Thermo Scientific™ Q Exactive™ Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer....
Introducing the New Q Exactive Focus benchtop LC-MS/MS
Laboratories performing food and environmental testing, clinical research, forensic toxicology, pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical measurements, and other applied analyses can now benefit from the performance of high-resolution accurate-mass (HRAM) Orbitrap mass spectrometry using a new instrument designed for cost-per-sample-sensitive workflows. The new Thermo Scientific Q Exactive Focus LC-MS/MS is...
The ASpect CS software package version 2.0 for High-Resolution Continuum Source (HR-CS) AAS with the contrAA® series provides innovative new features significantly increasing productivity, flexibility and operation comfort.
The main new features include simultaneous multi-element analysis of any number of analytical wavelengths within the spectrum window. Integration ranges for each line can be selected freely, for increased sensitivity. A new background correction method and an improved spectral correction of interferences allow simple and automatic correction of complex structured spectral background and overlapping matrix lines. ASpect CS is operated...
Lambda Advanced Technology will have an impressive range of analytical instrumentation and sample preparation equipment on show at the Lab Innovations show.
UV/Vis and fluorescence spectrophotometers, the TM3030 tabletop electron microscope and a dedicated water determination system will be complemented by microwave and pressure digestion sample preparation systems....
Visit Lambda Advanced Technology at Lab Innovations | Stand G13
Analytik Jena AG, a manufacturer of analytical measuring technology and life science instruments today announced that it has closed the acquisition of the ICP-MS business of Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) on September 12, 2014.
The integration process has begun, and it is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2014. "I am glad that we were able to make this acquisition a reality so quickly and on a fair basis together with Bruker. The transaction is of great strategic importance for Analytik Jena AG," said Klaus Berka, Chief Executive Officer of Analytik Jena AG. "Now the emphasis will be on integrating the team of employees from Bruker and the...
Optical Surfaces Ltd. are a leading international supplier of high precision toroidal mirrors (toroids) made to your exact specification.
Toroidal mirrors are normally used where a beam needs to be focused or folded. The design of toroidal mirrors eliminates astigmatism normally caused by concave spherical mirrors. Toroidal mirrors are widely used for correction of aberration in a range of applications served by spectroscopic instruments, monochromators and imaging devices that require pinpoint focusing. With workshops and test facilities deep underground where...
Bibby Scientific demonstrates how users of the company’s popular Jenway 67 series spectrophotometers can implement them in assessments of chlorophyll in water samples.
When it comes to these crucial analyses, the quality optics installed in the instruments reliably deliver results to the level of precision required to meet strict water testing requirements. Within this application note, Bibby Scientific explores how mixtures of chlorophyll a and b within samples can be distinguished by their spectra using a Jenway 6715 spectrophotometer with a narrow band width. Chlorophyll a is a crucial indicator of...
Laboratories performing environmental analysis, forensics testing or other single quadrupole gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analyses that need a simple, cost-effective way to add GC-MS/MS capabilities, have a new option with the Thermo Scientific TSQ Duo triple quadrupole GC-MS/MS system.
“We designed this instrument specifically for labs needing to maintain their current GC or single quadrupole GC-MS workflows while adding triple quadrupole capabilities with minimal disruption,” said Paul Silcock, marketing manager, GC-MS for Thermo Fisher Scientific. “The TSQ Duo system allows users to run their current methods and then easily move over to MS/MS analysis when the time is right for them, on a familiar system using the...
Identifies 256 types of glycolipids with LCMS-IT-TOF / Precise analysis of entire glycolipid structure / Supports high precision analysis in various fields
Shimadzu, one of the world leaders in analytical instrumentation, has released the industry-first glycolipid-specific library, containing information on 256 types of glycolipids. The library is a result of joint research with Dr. Akemi Suzuki, Director of the Institute of Glycoscience at Tokai University, Japan. Even users without specialized expertise can now prepare samples, specify analytical conditions, analyze data and identify glycolipids using an LCMS-IT-TOF liquid chromatograph mass spectrometer....
With clinical laboratories increasingly turning to high throughput LC-MSMS analysis, laboratory automation specialist Tecan and RECIPE Chemicals and Instruments GmbH, a leading manufacturer of IVD/CE diagnostic products, have announced a co-marketing agreement for automation of LC-MSMS IVD kits.
Visitors to Booth #1 at MSACL 2014 EU in Salzburg, Austria, from the 2nd to the 5th of September, had the opportunity to discover how Tecan’s flexible Freedom EVO® platform offers walkaway automation of the RECIPE ClinMass® LC-MSMS Complete Kits* for the analysis of vitamin D2/D3 and immunosuppressants. The automated process has the advantage of eliminating the potential for manual handling errors and increasing the speed of sample preparation three-fold compared to manual protocols, significantly improving turnaround times while enhancing reproducibility, traceability and sample security....
Analytik, leading suppliers of innovative analytical instrumentation, report on how handheld spectroscopy is being used at the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute.
Dr Chris Doughty is a lecturer in ecosystem ecology within the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at the University of Oxford. He is also a Junior Research Fellow in the Tropical Forest Science group of the ECI. Chris describes his work and vision where a handheld spectrometer becomes a vital part of his laboratory on the move. “Our goal is to use leaf spectroscopy to predict leaf traits (photosynthesis, leaf chemistry, etc.). We then hope to develop these techniques to eventually use airborne remote...
Ocean Optics offers unique interactive tools and educational resources
Ocean Optics has launched a redesigned website at oceanoptics.com. The all new site design helps users more easily navigate through spectroscopy product and educational information with an interactive product selector, spectrometer range and resolution calculator, applications section, measurement techniques section, and a new search function that groups results by type. The biggest change to the site is the addition of two...
European laboratories testing feed and food for dioxins and dioxin-like substances now have lower-cost, smaller-footprint alternatives to high-resolution mass spectrometers (HRMS) for confirming levels of the toxic contaminants, thanks to a new European Union regulation.
Thermo Fisher Scientific worked closely with national reference labs (NRLs) in the European Union to support the development of the new regulation, known as Commission Regulation (EU) No. 709/2014, which permits use of gas chromatograph-triple stage quadrupole mass spectrometers (GC-MS/MS) for confirmation. EU regulations previously permitted the use of GC-MS/MS only to screen samples for dioxins, a group of persistent organic chemicals that can cause...