Industry News & Events
The 30th Montreux LC/MS Symposium, Exhibition and Short Courses (November 3–7, 2014, in Charleston, SC) will be focused on Food Allergens and Safety Testing (FAST). Three short courses will precede the Symposium (Nov. 3/4: sample preparation, CID interpretation, and new advances in LC/ MS, all related to food analysis). A full exhibition and vendor workshops/seminars will accompany the Symposium. The Symposium will consist of plenary, keynote, and contributed lectures and posters. Topics covered will include recent and emerging issues for food analysis, approaches for measuring contaminants in food, and current and emerging issues in foodomics for allergen detection. For more information please visit
www.fast-lcms2014.org
Malvern Instruments Ltd. has completed the acquisition of MicroCal from GE Healthcare Life Sciences and has purchased the Archimedes particle characterization system from Affinity Biosensors LLC. Both of these developments extend Malvern’s portfolio of analytical solutions for the rapidly advancing biopharmaceutical industry. Headquartered in the U.K., Malvern Instruments is a global business that serves a diverse range of academic and industrial markets, providing instrumentation for the analysis of a wide variety of materials. The company is part of the Materials Analysis Division of Spectris plc.
www.malvern.com
Bruker was recently awarded its fourth patent for PeakForce Tapping®, its proprietary atomic force microscopy mode that provides a combination of the highest-resolution AFM imaging with the most quantitative property mapping data possible. The patent is issued for the PeakForce Tapping’s specific method of achieving piconewton level, direct force control. PeakForce Tapping comprises a series of patents that started with the novel concept of high-speed mechanical property mapping (U.S. patent 7,658,097) and evolved into a family of AFM modes that have enabled researchers of all AFM experience levels to perform AFM imaging with unprecedented precision in force control and access physical properties information at the nanometer scale for broader category of materials.
www.bruker.com
Waters Corp. has announced the acquisition of Rapid Evaporative Ionization Mass Spectrometry (REIMS) technology from MediMass Ltd. REIMS is the enabling technology for the “iKnife” or “Intelligent Knife,” a device in the conceptual stages of development that will allow mass spectrometry to play a bigger role in clinical diagnostic research including the potential for real-time diagnostics in surgery. In addition to its clinical applications, REIMS technology has the potential of breaking new ground in the area of food safety research. A real-time food test can check for contamination by instantly determining if a food is
fresh, spoiled, or improperly labeled (i.e., beef vs horsemeat), or identify deadly bacteria like E. coli or salmonella, all in a single touch.
www.waters.com
Brookfield, the world standard for viscosity measurement and control, offers two hands-on courses, the Practical Course on Viscosity Measurements and the Lab Day/Advanced Viscosity Test Methods. These courses are designed to help users comprehend the functionality of their instrument, solve the mysteries of fluid behavior, and create successful and repeatable viscosity test methods for use in both R&D as well as QC. The courses are offered at Brookfield’s headquarters in Middleboro, MA and in major cities across the U.S. For more information visit
www.brookfieldengineering.com/services/ educational-programs\
Shimadzu and Indigo BioSystems have announced a partnership to develop and market mass spectrometry solutions that simplify and accelerate clinical data acquisition and data review for applications in clinical research, forensic toxicology, and new drug development. Under the terms of the agreement, Shimadzu is combining its ultrafast mass spectrometry platforms with Indigo BioSystems’ ASCENT™ clinical analysis software, a comprehensive and powerful data analysis suite that interprets visual data results from instruments and automatically reviews the data for problematic results. Instruments from Shimadzu, combined with the software, create an intelligent, high-throughput production system.
www.ssi.shimadzu.com
Spectris plc has acquired the business and assets of the Canadian company La Corporation Scientifique Claisse Inc. Claisse designs, manufactures, and sells consumables and instruments used to prepare consistent and comparable samples for spectroscopic analysis in mining, pharmaceutical, academic research, and industrial applications. It will become part of the Materials Analysis segment and will be integrated into PANalytical (part of Spectris plc), combining two leaders in fusion and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis. www.
panalytical.com
SP Industries, Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art laboratory equipment, biological drug manufacturing solutions, and specialty glassware, has acquired privately held Bel-Art Products, a global provider of laboratory solutions that serve the scientific, industrial, and healthcare end markets. Through this acquisition, SP, which offers a diverse collection of process and laboratory equipment and specialty glassware, adds to its portfolio over 3500 additional products sold under Bel-Art’s flagship Scienceware and H-B Instrument brand names. www.
spscientific.com
AMERICAN LABORATORY • 47 • JUNE/JULY 2014
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