Business in Brief

Max Planck Institute  and NovAlix have announced their collaborative effort to accelerate drug discovery research – with experts from both academia and the private sector working on cryo-EM technology. 

SCIEX launched the Echo MS+ system at SLAS 2024 – a coupling of acoustic ejection mass spectrometry technology and open port interface (OPI) sampling with either the SCIEX ZenoTOF 7600 or Triple Quad 6500+ system. 

Bruker Corporation has expanded their molecular microscopy portfolio with the acquisition of Japanese Raman microscopy developer Nanophoton Corporation – with plans to launch more user-friendly microscopy systems with advanced nanocarbon materials.

Following a decade of research, the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) has announced the commercial launch of magSIMS – a magnetic sector secondary ion mass spectrometry system for nanoscale visualization. 

A new £750,000 UK Centre for Multimodal Correlative Microscopy and Spectroscopy (CoreMiS) has opened its doors to environmental researchers in Oxfordshire – fully equipped with emerging spectroscopic and microscopic technologies. 

Waters Corporation and Plasmion have joined forces with a co-marketing agreement to enhance Waters’ ACQUITY QDa De­tec­tor and SELECT SERIES Cy­clic IMS mass spec­tro­me­ters with Plasmion’s SICRIT ion source.

Shimadzu has launched a series of inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers, ICPMS-2040/2050 – featuring a high-performance quadrupole mass filter, enabling reduced gas consumption and enhanced ionization efficiency. 

The newly released TauSTED Xtend – based on stimulated emission depletion (STED) imaging – holds the promise to extend live cell imaging at nanoscale resolution according to its designer, Leica Microsystems. 

Thermo Fisher Scientific has launched the Dionex Inuvion Ion Chromatography (IC) system – their latest instrumentation for detection of corrosive contaminants in oil and gas – with improved speed and smaller footprint.