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Advion BioSciences, based
in Ithaca New York, and ThermoElectron
Corporation have launched a fully
automated chip-based nanoelectrospray MS
system.
Bruker Daltonics Inc.
introduces Compass(TM), a unified software
environment for all mass spectrometric
instrument control and data processing, as
well as chemical and bioinformatics
analysis software. Compass is designed to
offer a unified look and feel across all
Bruker mass spectrometers.
Amersham Biosciences and
Thermo Electron Corporation have announced
they will jointly market and sell AB's
Ettan MALDI-TOF Pro and ThermoFinnigan
line of ion trap mass spectrometers ,
including the ProteomeX integrated
proteomics workstation.
Applied Biosystems Group
have announced that the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a
judgment of the U.S. Court for the
District of Delaware ruling in favor of
Applied Biosystems patent infringement
lawsuit against Micromass U.K. Ltd. and
its U.S. subsidiary, Micromass, Inc., both
divisions of Waters Corporation. Micromass
was found to infringe a US patent covering
technology for triple quadrupole mass
spectrometers.
Agilent Technologies Inc.
have announced it expects results for the
first fiscal quarter of 2003 to be below
the expectations with revenues in the
range of $1.35-1.45 billion. Agilent CEO
Ned Barnholt said, "We are seeing a
collective hesitation by many of our
customers, who are deferring big ticket
capital expenditures.
Bruker Daltonics have
released the Esquire HCT quadrupole ion
trap mass spectrometer. The Esquire HCT
features an UltraScan(TM) mode with a scan
rate of 26,000 Dalton/second analysis with
unit mass resolution. An extended mass
range scan can achieve a maximum m/z of
6,000.
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