Latest Mass spectrometry Stories

CHICAGO, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Consider this nightmare: Each night millions of women toss and turn and try to get to sleep but can't because of hormonal hot flashes, night sweats and chills. Add to that the women who can't sleep because of aches and pains, sore muscles and stress and you've got a lot of women starting their days on the proverbial wrong side of the bed. Now, thanks to science and Mother Nature, there's a non-prescription, non-hormonal way for women to get a good...

SAN DIEGO, April 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sequenom, Inc. (Nasdaq: SQNM) today announced the launch of its next-generation mass spectrometry system - the MassARRAY® Analyzer 4. This new high performance nucleic acid analysis platform has been designed to meet customer demand for a bench top instrument with greater flexibility across multiple applications, improved reliability and faster performance. With the capability for quantitative gene expression analysis, epigenetic nucleic acid...

PAOLI, Pa., April 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME) today announced that it has acquired Imago Scientific Instruments, a privately held manufacturer of 3D atom probes, based in Madison, WI. "Imago Scientific Instruments significantly broadens our technical capabilities in differentiated, high-end analytical instrumentation and is an excellent addition to our CAMECA advanced elemental analysis business," states Frank S. Hermance, AMETEK Chairman and Chief Executive...

New Peptide Array Facility Designed to Expedite the Drug Discovery Process VANCOUVER, March 16 /PRNewswire/ - Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation, a world leader in functional proteomics research, announced the launch of a new peptide synthesis facility to provide researchers with the latest in peptide array technologies. These new services will facilitate and expedite access to peptide platforms for innovative approaches to proteomic research and discovery. A variety of peptide services...

PITTSBURGH, March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Isotope Technologies (AIT), a technology-centric corporation committed to innovation in the metrology field, issued this statement through its Chief Executive Officer, Matt Pamuku regarding the Mass Spectrometry Facility in the Bayer School at Duquesne University receiving designation as an Agilent Center of Excellence. AIT is a privately-funded, development stage company that is focused on the creation and advancement of transformational...

PALO ALTO, Calif., March 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Varian, Inc. (Nasdaq GS: VARI) announced today that Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) and Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) have entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement pursuant to which Bruker will acquire certain product lines of Varian. As previously announced, Agilent committed to divest those product lines in connection with obtaining regulatory approval for Agilent's pending acquisition of Varian. The product lines...

Researchers from the Ohio State University have developed a rapid, multiplexed genotyping method to identify the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that affect warfarin dose. The related report by Yang et al, "Rapid Genotyping of SNPs Influencing Warfarin Drug Response by SELDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry," appears in the March 2010 issue of the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics.Warfarin is an anti-coagulant that is commonly used to prevent blood clots and embolism. However, warfarin...

MILFORD, Mass., Feb. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) introduces today Viridis(TM) SFC columns, a new family of analytical and preparative supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) columns. Waters new Viridis SFC columns were developed to give laboratories using SFC a reliable source of high-quality columns for compound purification. Paired with Waters® TharSFC(TM) instrumentation laboratories now have a single source for both instrumentation and columns for...

Astronomers say it is likely that Saturn's moon Enceladus hides a large body of liquid water just beneath its icy surface, BBC News reported.More data returned from the Cassini probe, which periodically sweeps past the little moon, has provided even more evidence backing the idea of a sub-surface sea below the moon's surface.Experts theorize that it is the detection of negatively charged water molecules in the atmosphere of Enceladus. Such ions on Earth are often seen where liquid water is in...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR) announced today that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of AB SCIEX and Molecular Devices. AB SCIEX is a leading designer and manufacturer of mass spectrometers, highly sensitive and sophisticated instruments used by researchers and clinicians to identify and quantify specific molecules in complex samples. Molecular Devices supplies high-performance bio-analytical instrumentation systems and...