Peaks of Interest
LECO Corporation (St. Joseph, Missouri) recently opened a global support center at its headquarters to serve domestic and international customers. The building will house its service, customer training, and consumables departments. An auditorium, training rooms, cafeteria, and restrooms have been designed exclusively for customers attending training classes. Up-to-date technology has been installed to ensure service and training needs for all customers are met quickly and efficiently.
LECO opens global support center
LECO Corporation (St. Joseph, Missouri) recently opened a global support center at its headquarters to serve domestic and international customers. The building will house its service, customer training, and consumables departments. An auditorium, training rooms, cafeteria, and restrooms have been designed exclusively for customers attending training classes. Up-to-date technology has been installed to ensure service and training needs for all customers are met quickly and efficiently.
Chromatography Market Profile
Eksigent and Applied Biosystems announce distribution agreement
Eksigent Technologies (Livermore, California) recently announced a distribution agreement with Applied Biosystems/MDS SCIEX (Foster City, California). Applied Biosystems will offer a new line of high performance liquid chromatography systems based upon Eksigent's proprietary technology integrated with Applied Biosystems/MDS SCIEX mass spectrometers.
The new Tempo liquid chromatography (LC) systems will be sold and serviced by Applied Biosystems/MDS SCIEX, and include platforms for nano LC, high-throughput micro LC, and an LC–MALDI deposition system. The systems are based upon Eksigent's Microfluidic Flow Control technology, which has been widely adopted in proteomics research and in pharmaceutical discovery applications.
Fisher Biosciences collaborates with Dyomics
Fisher Biosciences (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) recently announced a collaboration with Dyomics GmbH (Jena, Germany), a developer and manufacturer of fluorescent dyes and other markers for biomolecular research. This collaboration will enable Fisher to develop and manufacture an expanded range of products for protein and nucleic-acid detection under the Pierce brand.
Dyomics' products are used in a number of scientific-research, drug-discovery, and diagnostic applications.
Under the Pierce brand, Fisher currently offers protein-research products based primarily upon chemiluminescent and colorimetric detection and will expand to offer fluorescently labeled reagents.
National City and PerkinElmer announce partnership
National City Commercial Capital (Cleveland, Ohio) recently announced a financing partnership with the Life and Analytical Sciences division of PerkinElmer (Shelton, Conneticut). National City Commercial Capital will provide custom-financing programs for PerkinElmer customers.
National City Commercial Capital is a subsidiary of National City Corporation and is one of the largest bank-affiliated leasing companies in the country.
Best of the Week: Food Analysis, Chemical Migration in Plastic Bottles, STEM Researcher of the Year
December 20th 2024Top articles published this week include the launch of our “From Lab to Table” content series, a Q&A interview about using liquid chromatography–high-resolution mass spectrometry (LC–HRMS) to assess chemical hazards in plastic bottles, and a piece recognizing Brett Paull for being named Tasmanian STEM Researcher of the Year.
Using LC-MS/MS to Measure Testosterone in Dried Blood Spots
December 19th 2024Testosterone measurements are typically performed using serum or plasma, but this presents several logistical challenges, especially for sample collection, storage, and transport. In a recently published article, Yehudah Gruenstein of the University of Miami explored key insights gained from dried blood spot assay validation for testosterone measurement.
Determination of Pharmaceuticals by Capillary HPLC-MS/MS (Dec 2024)
December 19th 2024This application note demonstrates the use of a compact portable capillary liquid chromatograph, the Axcend Focus LC, coupled to an Agilent Ultivo triple quadrupole mass spectrometer for quantitative analysis of pharmaceutical drugs in model aqueous samples.
