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The quest to discover whether Mars ever hosted an environment friendly to microscopic forms of life has just gotten a shot in the arm."Mars was a lot different 3-1/2 billion years ago. It was more like Earth with liquid water," said Jennifer Eigenbrode, a scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "Maybe life existed back then. Maybe it has persisted, which is possible given the fact that we've found life in every extreme environment here on Earth. If...

MILFORD, Mass., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) has become the exclusive distributor of Fusion Method Development(TM) software, developed by S-Matrix® Corporation. The software works seamlessly with Waters® Empower® 2 chromatography data software (CDS) and ACQUITY UltraPerformance LC® (UPLC®) to automate liquid chromatographic method development according to Quality-by-Design (QbD) guidelines. Fusion not only greatly accelerates method...

MILFORD, Mass., Dec. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) announced today that it has shipped the first units of its ground-breaking SYNAPT(TM) G2 Mass Spectrometer, first introduced at the 2009 American Society of Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) annual conference in Philadelphia in June. The instruments are destined for key academic research centers across Europe, North America and Asia and for global pharmaceutical companies and chemical research laboratories. "SYNAPT G2 is...

BURLINGTON, Mass. and BERLIN, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- caprotec bioanalytics GmbH announced today the opening of its US-based subsidiary based in Burlington, MA. caprotec Inc. will be responsible for North American sales, marketing and support of caprotec's proprietary Capture Compound Mass Spectrometry (CCMS) technology and its related products. caprotec is partnering with Genovative Solutions, LLC in the area of sales and marketing with its founder Jeff Protentis acting as caprotec's lead...

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PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Varian, Inc. (NasdaqGS: VARI) announced today the release of the 325-MS triple-quadrupole LC/MS (liquid chromatograph/mass spectrometer) for the efficient detection and identification of chemical compounds in high-throughput laboratories performing environmental, food safety, and toxicology analyses. Analytical chemists face the challenge of identifying a growing list of compounds from an increasing number of samples in a variety of matrices. To...

MILFORD, Mass., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), College Park, MD recently purchased nine Waters® ACQUITY UltraPerformance LC® (UPLC®) Systems to support its priority to protect the U.S. food supply by monitoring domestically-produced and imported food sold in interstate commerce. The new instruments will be placed within CFSAN's Office...

MILFORD, Mass., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) has posted a new version of its online video showcase featuring compelling interviews with more than 50 scientists, development partners, and product experts in the fields of pharmaceutical discovery and development, food safety, environmental analysis, sports medicine, disease research and clinical toxicology and clinical research. The showcase features interviews with scientists speaking about their research...

PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Varian, Inc. (Nasdaq: VARI) announced today a series of productivity enhancements for its 710-ES Series of ICP-OES (Inductively Coupled Plasma - Optical Emission Spectrometer) instruments. The enhancements comprise hardware, software and accessory options available both on new instruments as well as on upgrades to existing equipment. They enable users to reduce sample analysis times by up to 50% and lower the cost of each analysis. For...

Coupling electrosurgery with mass spectrometry for real-time identification of tumor tissuesInstead of the classic scalpel, surgeons can also operate with an electroscalpel. A significant advantage to this technique is that while a cut is being made, blood vessels are closed off and hemorrhaging eliminated. Now another advantage may be added as well: a German-Hungarian research team has developed a mass-spectrometry-based technique by which tissues can be analyzed during a surgical procedure....