New Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer Brings Speed and High Performance to Routine Laboratories

Robust Thermo Scientific TSQ Fortis Triple Quadrupole mass spectrometer designed for productivity across all levels of users   SAN DIEGO, June 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — ASMS 2018 – Analytical scientists facing the challenges of quantitation in food and environmental applications can now achieve high productivity and meet laboratory demands with a fast yet robust mass spectrometer. The Thermo Scientific TSQ... Read more

New Software Toolset Advances Small Molecule Analysis

Easy-to-use software helps identify unknown compounds and extracts high-confidence understanding from complex mass spectra   SAN DIEGO, June 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — ASMS 2018 – Scientists working in metabolomics, pharmaceuticals, food safety, and environmental and forensic science can now use a fully integrated software toolkit to transform complex, unknown mass spectra generated from small molecule analysis into actionable data.... Read more

Waters Technologies for Food Safety, Food Authenticity and Biomedical Research at ASMS 2018

MILFORD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Waters (NYSE:WAT) is giving scientists attending ASMS 2018 a first look at new mass spectrometry technologies developed to serve the multi-faceted analytical requirements of food testing, university and biomedical research laboratories. The new products include a gas chromatography-mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS) system for food safety analyses and a direct-analysis mass spectrometry system... Read more

Waters Technologies for Food Safety, Food Authenticity and Biomedical Research at ASMS 2018

Creating Access to the Power and Potential of Mass Spectrometry for More Laboratories MILFORD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jun. 1, 2018– Waters (NYSE:WAT) is giving scientists attending ASMS 2018 a first look at new mass spectrometry technologies developed to serve the multi-faceted analytical requirements of food testing, university and biomedical research laboratories. The new products include a gas chromatography-mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry... Read more

bioMérieux launches ENDOZYME® II GO, an innovative test for the detection of endotoxins in pharmaceutical microbiology control

01 June, 2018 bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of industrial microbiological control, announces the launch of ENDOZYME® II GO, a new endotoxin test in the bioMérieux ENDONEXTTM range of recombinant horseshoe crab Factor C (rFC) assays. This new assay resulting from the combined expertise of bioMérieux in microbiology and Hyglos GmbH in endotoxin detection enables... Read more

Waters DART QDa System with LiveID Software Instantly Assesses Food Quality and Authenticity

System Couples the ACQUITY QDa Detector with the IonSense DART Ion Source for Rapid Molecular Fingerprinting of Foods and Food Ingredients MILFORD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 29, 2018– Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) announced today the introduction of the Waters® DART® QDa™ System with LiveID™, a direct-from-sample analytical system that allows laboratories to answer questions such as: Is the sample authentic? Has the composition... Read more

Illumina to Webcast Upcoming Investor Conference Presentations

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that its executives will be speaking at the following investor conferences, and invited investors to participate via webcast. Goldman Sachs Global Healthcare Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, CATuesday, June 12, 2018 at 10:00 am Pacific Time William Blair & Company Growth Stock Conference in Chicago, ILWednesday, June 13,... Read more

QIAGEN launches the DNeasy PowerSoil Pro Kit to advance microbiome characterization in soils

Employing next-generation Inhibitor Removal Technology and improved sample disruption, the kit boosts the well-known performance of PowerSoil kits in isolating microbial DNA from soils Germantown, Maryland, and Hilden, Germany, May 23, 2018 – QIAGEN today announced the worldwide launch of the new DNeasy PowerSoil Pro Kit, the next generation of sample technology for the extraction of fungal... Read more

In memory Nils Foss 1928-2018

16. May, 2018   Born into a successful entrepreneurial family, Nils Foss has lifted the legacy. The ever curious and dedicated entrepreneur and business man recently established the Nils Foss Excellence Prizes, to be given for the third year in a row this year, and his life’s work, N. Foss Electric – today FOSS A/S,... Read more

Illumina Acquires Edico Genome to Accelerate Genomic Data Analysis

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced that it acquired Edico Genome, the leading provider of data analysis acceleration solutions for next-generation sequencing (NGS). Edico Genome’s DRAGEN® Bio-IT Platform (DRAGEN) uses field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology in conjunction with proprietary software algorithms to reduce both data footprint and time to results. DRAGEN can be run on... Read more