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Break the routine: SCIEX OS-MQ improves your quantitation workflows
Advances in today’s technology have resulted in a need for higher and faster sample throughput, with increasing number of measured analytes per sample. The new SCIEX OS-MQ software breaks the routine and takes quantitation workflows to a new level. Key features...
Stop Fumbling Around in the Dark: Try LC-MS/MS for Designer Drugs in Forensic Samples
Imagine being blindfolded, sent into a large (dark) room filled with obstacles and challenged to find an item, but you don’t know what that item is, and you have never seen it before. Then you must do the same again the next day, but you are looking for a different...
5 Reasons Why Mass Spec is Transforming Clinical Labs
According to the American Clinical Laboratory Association, more than 7 billion clinical lab tests are performed in the U.S. every year. While mass spectrometry represents only a fraction of the clinical applications, there are a growing number of tests where mass...
Save Effort. Save Time. Consolidate Your BioTherapeutic Quality, Safety, and Efficacy Assessments with One Direct LC-MS MAM Assay.
In a previous blog, we learned how you could Simplify Your Life with a Streamlined Workflow for Multiple Attribute Methodology (MAM). Based on the well-known technique of peptide mapping, a Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry-based MAM workflow (LC-MS MAM) enables...
Metabolism and Biotransformation – What Are You Missing?
Are you looking to improve your MetID studies? Want to achieve the productivity and throughput you need to keep your projects moving and have complete confidence that you’re not missing any low level or parent-like metabolites in your sample? In this blog, we’re...
Biologics Characterization: Intact and Subunit Mass Analysis
When All You Need Is Range – Mass Range, Dynamic Range, and the Complete Range Launching the best possible product in the shortest time possible is key for pharmaceutical companies like you. As you know, nearly every process throughout the biologics development cycle...
Now You Can Overcome Your Food and Environmental Testing Obstacles
How do you safeguard human health and protect your reputation through meeting stringent global food and environmental safety standards? When it comes to testing food and environmental samples, the quality of your testing data is vital to your business. You need fast...
Unraveling the Metabolome
Dr. David Wishart, Departments of Biological Sciences and Computing Science, University of AlbertaCanada’s TMIC is an internationally-recognized leader in metabolomics, providing tools and resources that are used by laboratories around the world. The center offers...
It’s Time to Stop Fraudulent Food Reaching the Consumer with LC-MS/MS
If you are reading this blog, it is likely that you are fully acquainted with food fraud, but let’s just take a moment to set the scene. Food fraud is by no means a new phenomenon and goes as far back as the middle ages, with the concept of tampering or...
Product Quality Assessments of Biotherapeutics Using LC-MS MAM
Why LC-MS MAM?The Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Multiple Attribute Methodology (LC-MS MAM) is a technique that is quickly gaining traction in the development and manufacturing of biopharmaceuticals. But what exactly is MAM? As researchers describe in a...
Ion Formation Control Is the Key to Increasing System Robustness
Traditional mass spectrometry ionization methods such as electronic spray ionization (ESI) and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI), are popular methods for detecting the molecular weight of proteins, peptides, and other biologics. The reason being both...