Microchips and Advanced Microscopy
Business in brief: What’s going on in analytical science?
Products and launches
- HORIBA has launched the Duetta, a compact fluorescence/absorbance spectrometer that performs non-destructive, non-contact analysis. Read More
- Agilent’s 870 Laser Direct Infrared imaging system, combining Quantum Cascade Laser technology with the company’s Clarity Software, claims to speed up analysis times from “hours to minutes.” Read More
- SCIEX announced new applications for CESI-MS (capillary electrophoresis with electrospray ionization) last month, including the proteomics and metabolomics fields. Read More
- Thermo Scientific’s ISQ EM system – offering a mass range of 10-2000 m/z – combines HESI (high-performing heated electrospray ionization and dual HESI/atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) for LC-MS routine analysis. Read More
Collaborations
- Bruker has expanded its collaborations with Bioinformatics Solutions Inc, Evosep and the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Germany. Bruker announced the latest developments to its timsTOF Pro mass spectrometer at HUPO 2018 (Human Proteome Organization Congress). Read More
- PharmaFluidics has entered into a partnership agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific. This will allow the company to combine their own µPAC technology with Thermo’s mass spectrometers. Read More
Company and people updates
- The National Institute of Health has awarded US $1.5m to Vanderbilt University to support their aim to map the human body at the cellular level using MS imaging. Read More
- Waters has appointed two new members to its Board of Directors. CEO of Waters, Chris O’Connell, said: “Linda Baddour offers deep strategic insights…Gary Hendrickson brings a wealth of global leadership and governance experience.” Read More
- Nestor Zaluzec (senior scientist at US DOE Argonne Laboratory) has been recognized for his contributions to advanced microscopy – by being named an inaugural Fellow in the Legends Class of the Microanalysis Society. Read More
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