Bruker has started taking orders for its new high-performance Apex-ultra FTMS (Fourier transform mass spectrometer) for top-down proteomics and complex mixtures analysis.
The system features excellent dynamic range, ultra-high resolving power, superb mass accuracy and faster data acquisition using its unique refrigerated FTMS superconducting magnet technology.
The magnet is available at 7, 9.4, 12 and 15 Tesla to provide what the company claims is the most powerful and flexible FTMS system commercially available.
FEI has introduced a new ultra high-resolution scanning electron microscope (SEM) the Nova NanoSEM 30 series.
This high end field emission SEM represents the most powerful SEM released to date by FEI and enables the characterisation of a large number of sample types including hard to image samples such as nanoparticles, insulating substances, porous materials and metals.
The new instrument also provides researchers with novel prototyping capabilities based on electron beam lithography, electron beam induced deposition and in-situ experimentation for manipulation and testing.
"The Nova NanoSEM 30 Series builds on FEI's expertise in field emission scanning electron microscopy and low vacuum SEM technology and brings unprecedented capabilities to researchers in the nanotechnology space, delivering best performance in characterization and prototyping tasks for a wide variety of nanomaterials and devices," said Dominique Hubert, vice president of FEI's NanoResearch division.
In collaboration with the Scripps Research Institute, FEI has also released their Leginon software system as open source code, making the automated control and image acquisition software for transmission electron microscopes (TEM) available to the global scientific community for free .
The software was developed by Scripps and enables TEM users to collect large numbers of high quality images of macromolecules under low dose conditions, improving throughput for single data acquisition.
"We are pleased to have worked with the Scripps Research Institute for many years on the Leginon program and we are happy to make the Leginon software available under an open source license," said Matt Harris, vice president of FEI's NanoBiology division.
"The widespread availability of this proven and highly functional software will accelerate scientific discovery and development in life sciences for many years to come."
Illumina has introduced a new multi-sample DNA analysis microarray system, the Infinium HumanHap550-Duo BeadChip. The array contains the same content as the HumanHap550 BeadChip in a dual-sample format significantly increasing throughput and lowering the cost per sample.
"We provide researchers with levels of genomic coverage, power, and data quality unrivaled by any other competing product. Additionally, our flexible manufacturing capability and increased scale affords us significant cost efficiencies, which we are now pleased to pass on to our customers," said John Stuelpnagel, general manager of Illumina's Array business.
Millipore has released a Neurite outgrowth assay kit that uses immunofluorescent-tagged antibodies to specifically label neurites and neuronal cell bodies in heterogeneous cell populations for High Content Screening (HCS).
The kit uses target specific detection reagents for profiling inducers and inhibitors of neurite outgrowth neurotoxins in a variety of species, including human, mouse and rat.
Paraytec's ActiPix D100 parallel UV/Vis (ultra violet/visible) absorbance detector has won an R&D100 Award. The ActiPix uses a range of capillary-based UV/vis absorbance detectors to extend the use of the technique to a new range of biological and pharmaceutical applications.
"Having recently won the Pittcon 2007 Silver Award , one of the most important international technology awards in the laboratory instrumentation and scientific equipment sector, we are thrilled at having now been awarded this additional prestigious award - the R&D 100. This further underlines the significance of our technology," said Dr Mebs Surve, Business Development manager of Paraytec.
Sigma-Aldrich has released a new liquid chromatography (LC) column, the ProteoPrep20 LC, which promises to simplify biomarker discovery by removing more biological noise from samples.
Disease biomarkers are nearly always masked by high abundance proteins that have less biological significance than those proteins that indicate disease.
Twenty highly abundant proteins are known to comprise 97 per cent of the proteins in the human plasma and this column removes these at 98 per cent efficiency to allow the biologically significant proteins to be more easily identified.
"We recognise biomarker discovery as one of the central missions of proteomic research and better drug development to help the human condition. We are proud to provide researchers with yet another best-in-class technology to accelerate their discovery and validation goals," said Tim Fleming, director of Global Strategic Marketing, Proteomics at Sigma-Aldrich.
