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.
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.
2024 EAS Awardees Showcase Innovative Research in Analytical Science
November 20th 2024Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Washington, and other leading institutions took the stage at the Eastern Analytical Symposium to accept awards and share insights into their research.
