Sciex has developed the first non-derivatised method using LC-MS/MS for quick and simple detection and quantitation of glyphosate and other polar pesticides in food, feed and water commodities.

Thermo Fisher Scientific and Symphogen, a clinical-stage antibody oncology-focused company, have entered into a two-year collaborative partnership to deliver validated, platform workflows for simplified characterization and quality monitoring of complex therapeutic proteins.

Pharmaceutical scientists are now able to overcome challenges associated with the identification and characterization of small molecules and their fragments with Thermo Scientific Mass Frontier 8.0 software, which quickly translates complex data into actionable, sharable knowledge.

Waters Corporation has introduced the Bio Accord System. This purposefully designed liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) solution is to expand access to high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometry capabilities to more scientists.

Since Waters acquired TA Instruments in 1996, the company has been an integral part of the group. This year TA Instruments is presenting several new products at Pittcon. Waters will also be presenting an LC-MS system specifically for biopharmaceutical analysis.

Researchers led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) report on the synthesis of a library of more than 330,000 reference peptides representing essentially all canonical proteins of the human proteome. This research is a major milestone in the ProteomeTools project which aims at translating human proteome information into new molecular and digital tools with the potential for use in drug discovery, personalized medicine and life science research.

A study, conducted by a research group of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, has analysed the diet of Muslim individuals at the Tauste (Zaragoza) site and has determined the differences existing in diet according to sex and age.

Thermo Fisher offers a new technology for single quadrupole mass spectrometer. The system is designed for ease-of-use while offering application flexibility and reliable results for challenging mass confirmation analyses, the company says.

Carbohydrates are the most abundant class of biomolecules. But — their analysis is not always trivial. This article describes how electrolytic and highly automated inline eluent generation can be successfully applied to carbohydrate separations using HPAEC in combination with PAD.

Remarkable recent developments in high-throughput research techniques allow scientists to collect more data than ever before. However, this presents significant challenges in terms of data storage, management and analysis. Cloud-based informatics platforms offer a potential solution, bringing together all aspects of laboratory management into a flexible and scalable system, designed to support future technologies as they become available.