Peaks of Interest
News from the chromatography industry.
Bruker Daltonics and German agency announce collaboration
Bruker BioSciences Corporation (Billerica, Massachusetts) and the German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (DSMZ, Braunschweig, Germany) announced a collaboration for the identification and classification of microorganisms from peptide and protein profiles measured by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. The DSMZ uses Bruker Daltonics' CLINPROT BioTyper system to generate protein profiles and to perform the required data analysis.
The DSMZ is the German National Resource Centre for Biological Material, and currently stores and maintains approximately 14,000 cultures, representing 6900 species from different types of microorganisms, including archaea, bacteria, yeasts, and fungi. In the collaboration, a database will be generated that will include species and strains for many different application areas such as microbiological classification, clinical and diagnostic infectious disease research, as well as environmental analysis, food safety, and water quality.
Applied Biosystems completes acquisition of division of Ambion
Applied Biosystems Group (Foster City, California) has completed its acquisition of the Research Products Division of Ambion (Austin, Texas).
Applied Biosystems will continue to deliver the products, services, and support for both Applied Biosystems and Ambion.
Applied Biosystems' product portfolio combined with Ambion's broad range of RNA products allows the company to offer complete solutions for application workflows.
PerkinElmer Acquires Agilix Proteomics Technique
PerkinElmer (Shelton, Connecticut) recently announced their acquisition of Agilix Corporation's (Woodbridge, Connecticut) proprietary protein labeling technique that uses isobaric mass tags to simultaneously quantify expressed proteins from multiple samples.
This technique brings quantitative proteomics to PerkinElmer customers in drug discovery and proteomics research. It provides a method for enhancing the utility of mass spectrometry for proteomic analysis.
Waters acquires VICAM
Waters Corporation (Milford, Massachusetts) announced that it has purchased the food safety technology business and associated net assets of VICAM (Watertown, Massachusetts) for undisclosed terms.
According to the Annual Report of the European Commissions' Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed, the largest number of Information Notifications by identified risk in 2004 was for mycotoxin contamination in food imported to, or grown within, the European Union. VICAM's proprietary products employ monoclonal antibodies that are highly specific for certain mycotoxins in a sample.
TD-GC–MS and IDMS Sample Prep for CRM to Quantify Decabromodiphenyl Ether in Polystyrene Matrix
April 26th 2024At issue in this study was the certified value of decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE 209) in a polystyrene matrix CRM relative to its regulated value in the EU Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive.
High-Throughput 4D TIMS Method Accelerates Lipidomics Analysis
April 25th 2024Ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry (UHPLC-HRMS) had been previously proposed for untargeted lipidomics analysis, but this updated approach was reported by the authors to reduce run time to 4 min.
Inside the Laboratory –– Women in Separation Science Edition
April 25th 2024Inside the Laboratory is a joint series with LCGC and Spectroscopy, profiling analytical scientists and their research groups at universities all over the world. This series spotlights the current chromatographic and spectroscopic research their groups are conducting, and the importance of their research in analytical chemistry and specific industries. In this “Inside the Laboratory –– Women in Separation Science” special edition PDF, we profile four industry leaders and the impact that their research is having in specific fields such as environmental analysis, forensics, national security, and drug development.
