European Mass Spectrometry Award : Shimadzu awarded for Exceptional Product Line Strategy

29-Oct-2008 - Shimadzu has been awarded the 2008 Frost & Sullivan European Mass Spectrometry Product Line Strategy Award. It is presented each year to a company that has demonstrated the most insight into customer needs and product demands. The recipient company should have optimized its product line by ...

Kinaxo Enters into an Agreement with Boehringer Ingelheim

15-Oct-2008 - Kinaxo Biotechnologies GmbH announced that it has entered into a two-year collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim. Under the agreement Kinaxo will apply its new platform technologies to studies on drug mode of action and target identification. Financial details of the agreement were not ...

Sequenom Announces Exclusive Licensing Agreement with Genomic Nanosystems for Digital PCR Technologies and Methods Patents

24-Sep-2008 - Sequenom, Inc. announced that it has secured exclusive rights to fundamental patent rights for digital PCR technologies and methods through a licensing agreement with Genomic Nanosystems, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Cytonix Corporation. The exclusively licensed rights include United ...

New Protein Survey by Scripps Research Scientists Upends Understanding of Cell Death Process

Results Reveal Numerous Potential New Drug Targets for Related Diseases

25-Aug-2008 - Results from a Scripps Research Institute study have nearly tripled the number of proteins known to be involved in the critical process of programmed cell death, and have shot down a long-held idea about the life cycle of proteins. The work opens doors for potential new drug discoveries, and may ...

Improved technique determines structure in membrane proteins

19-Aug-2008 - Understanding the form and function of certain proteins in the human body is becoming faster and easier, thanks to the work of researchers at the University of Illinois. By combining custom-built spectrometers, novel probe designs and faster pulse sequences, a team led by Illinois chemistry ...

Thermo Fisher Scientific Ranked World's Leading Vendor in Infrared Spectroscopy

14-Aug-2008 - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. received the highest overall vendor rating for infrared (IR) spectroscopy instrumentation according to the Worldwide Molecular Spectroscopy Survey published by Strategic Directions International (SDi) Inc in July 2008. The primary factors for selection of an IR ...

A Phonon Floodgate in Monolayer Carbon

The first STM spectroscopy of graphene flakes yields new surprises

24-Jul-2008 - Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley have performed the first scanning tunneling spectroscopy of graphene flakes equipped with a "gate" electrode. The result is the latest in a series of ...

Thermo Fisher Scientific Acquires Affinity BioReagents

Broad Range of Antibody Products Expands Thermo Fisher's Protein-Research Offering

21-Jul-2008 - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced that it has acquired Affinity BioReagents, provider of antibodies, peptides, proteins and other reagents for life science research, based in Golden, Colorado. "Affinity BioReagents is an ideal complement to our existing capabilities in protein research," ...

NextGen Sciences and Expression Pathology to provide protein biomarker discovery and measurement in tissue

01-Jul-2008 - NextGen Sciences, Inc (Ann Arbor, MI), a provider of biomarker services, and Expression Pathology, Inc. (Gaithersburg, MD), a leader in tissue protein analysis, announced that they have signed a commercial agreement to provide protein biomarker services in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) ...

New test makes cheating with drugs in sports easier to detect

20-Jun-2008 - A new mass spectrometry test can help sports anti-drug doping officials to detect whether an athlete has used drugs that boost naturally occurring steroid levels. The test is more sensitive compared to previous alternatives, more capable of revealing specific suspicious chemical in the body, ...