Peaks of Interest
Applied Biosystems, MDS Sciex, and Dionex Corporation form alliance
Applied Biosystems, MDS Sciex, and Dionex Corporation form alliance
Applied Biosystems (Foster City, California), MDS Sciex (South San Francisco, California), and Dionex Corporation (Sunnyvale, California) recently announced an alliance to develop IC–MS-MS and LC–MS-MS solutions. The solution from the alliance focuses on the analysis of perchlorate.
Analytical Instrumentation in the Food Industr
Perchlorate, a contaminant that has been used in industrial and military applications, is a powerful thyroid toxin that has been monitored in water supplies and found in foods and beverages globally.
The work of the alliance has been incorporated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the development of EPA Method 332.0, "Determination of Perchlorate in Drinking Water by Ion Chromatography with Suppressed Conductivity and Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry."
Agilent announces agreement to acquire Scientific Software
Agilent Technologies (Palo Alto, California) announced an agreement to acquire Scientific Software Inc. (SSI, Pleasanton, California), a provider of laboratory information management solutions.
The acquisition would bring together Agilent's analytical instrumentation, data systems, and services with SSI's chromatographic data systems and informatics. At closing, Agilent would have one of the industry's largest installed bases of chromatographic data systems and offer a broad portfolio of laboratory informatics software to the life sciences and chemical industries.
Waters holds food safety summit
Waters Corporation (Milford, Massachusetts) recently held a food safety summit in Mexico City, Mexico. An audience of exporters, government regulators, and private laboratories listened to executives from the company and leading experts from Latin America discuss analytical solutions to safeguard food, livestock, and crops.
Because food exports are important to the economies of Latin American countries, government agencies and export businesses are interested in residues from pesticides and veterinary drugs that require sensitive LC–MS-MS technology to be detected.
Nanostream announces new vice president of engineering
Nanostream (Pasadena, California) has announced that Hau H. Duong has been promoted to vice president of engineering. Duong has 18 years of experience in instrumentation development and customer support for analytical systems.
In his new position, Duong will oversee the development and manufacturing of the company's micro-parallel LC system. Duong's team of engineers and scientists is responsible for enhancing the system for broader utility throughout drug discovery and for the development of new products. In addition, Duong will manage the company's customer service and support organization.
Duong's background spans the entire product development process. He joined Nanostream in 2002.
Detangling the Complex Web of GC × GC Method Development to Support New Users
November 1st 2024In this article, the authors describe a simple workflow to develop a GC×GC method for a specific sample upon initial use, with the aim of decreasing the time to accomplish functional workflows for new users.
AI and GenAI Applications to Help Optimize Purification and Yield of Antibodies From Plasma
October 31st 2024Deriving antibodies from plasma products involves several steps, typically starting from the collection of plasma and ending with the purification of the desired antibodies. These are: plasma collection; plasma pooling; fractionation; antibody purification; concentration and formulation; quality control; and packaging and storage. This process results in a purified antibody product that can be used for therapeutic purposes, diagnostic tests, or research. Each step is critical to ensure the safety, efficacy, and quality of the final product. Applications of AI/GenAI in many of these steps can significantly help in the optimization of purification and yield of the desired antibodies. Some specific use-cases are: selecting and optimizing plasma units for optimized plasma pooling; GenAI solution for enterprise search on internal knowledge portal; analysing and optimizing production batch profitability, inventory, yields; monitoring production batch key performance indicators for outlier identification; monitoring production equipment to predict maintenance events; and reducing quality control laboratory testing turnaround time.
Green Chemistry: What is it (and What Is It Not)? And How Does It Apply to Gas Chromatography?
October 31st 2024Everyone is talking about sustainability, and organizations are creating sustainability programs. But what does green chemistry really mean, and how does it apply to gas chromatography?
AOAC International Awarded NIST Grant for Developing Drug Testing Standards
October 31st 2024The grant will be part of a new collaborative scientific initiative to address the need for standards that define the desired performance of lateral flow immunoassay test strips to detect illicit drugs in tablets and powders.
