LPC: US loan market welcomes M&A surge

By Lynn Adler and Jonathan Schwarzberg NEW YORK, April 28 (Reuters) – US companies have lined up at least US$42.5bn of loans to back a flurry of mergers in sectors ranging from healthcare to food and software in the second quarter as corporations try to grow by acquisition. Becton Dickinson’s US$24bn takeover of C R... Read more

Integration with SCPA chromatography software

26 April 2017 Microsaic Systems plc (“Microsaic”, “Microsaic Systems” or the “Company”) Integration with SCPA chromatography software Microsaic Systems plc (AIM: MSYS), the developer of chip-based mass spectrometry instruments, is pleased to announce its collaboration with SCPA GmbH (“SCPA”), and the integration of Microsaic’s 4000 MiD® compact mass spectrometer with SCPA’s universal PrepCon 5 preparative... Read more

Agilent Technologies Presents Thought Leader Award to Professor Dwight Stoll for Separation Science Research

Award Supports International Collaboration on Two-Dimensional Liquid Chromatography SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 19, 2017 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) announced today that Prof. Dwight Stoll has received an Agilent Thought Leader Award in support of his research applying two-dimensional liquid chromatography (2D-LC) to biopharmaceutical analysis. An influential researcher in chromatography, Prof. Stoll specializes in multi-dimensional... Read more

Phenomenex Expands Kinetex F5 (Pentafluorophenyl) HPLC and UHPLC Core-Shell Line to 5 µm for Preparative LC

Torrance, CA (March 21, 2017) – Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, introduces a new 5 µm particle size to its family of Kinetex F5 pentafluorophenyl propyl (PFP) core-shell columns, extending the versatility of F5 to preparative LC and purification work. Kinetex F5 is... Read more

Agilent Technologies Hires Samraat “Sam” Raha to Head Strategy and Corporate Development

Former Agilent Commercial VP Brings Deep Industry and Marketing Experience to New Role SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 20, 2017 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Samraat “Sam” Raha has been named senior vice president of strategy and corporate development, reporting to Agilent President and CEO Mike McMullen. Raha will serve as strategic lead... Read more

New Chromogenic Coliform Agar (ISO) for Water Testing Offers Easy to Read Results in Samples with Low Level Bacterial Contamination

BASINGSTOKE, England–(BUSINESS WIRE)–To help microbiology laboratories comply with the EU Core Directive for Quality of Water for Human Use (98/83/CE) and have confidence in reporting accurate results, the new Thermo Scientific Chromogenic Coliform Agar (CCA) (ISO) formulation is compliant with the ISO9308-1:2014 standard, cited in the Directive, and is easy to read because of the... Read more

New Family of Zebron GC Columns for Fast Highly Selective FAME Analysis

Torrance, Calif. (March 14, 2017) – Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research, design and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, introduces a trio of Zebron™ GC columns specially developed for the analysis of fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) in food. Identification and measurement of these compounds in food products such as... Read more

Agilent Technologies Launches New Research-Grade Triple Quadrupole LC/MS System

Greater Sensitivity and Accuracy for Life Science Research and Testing SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 8, 2017 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today expanded its portfolio of scientific instruments with a new LC/MS system that provides even greater sensitivity and accuracy for applications such as peptide quantitation, food safety, environmental testing, clinical research and forensic toxicology.... Read more