Tag: Agilent

NMR analyser is first designed for the clinical lab

THE FIRST fully-automated nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) diagnostic analyser created specifically for the clinical laboratory has granted approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Vantera clinical analyser from LipoScience combines proprietary signal-processing algorithms and NMR spectroscopic detection…

X-ray diffractometer optimised for structural biology

DESIGNED to meet the needs of the modern macromolecular crystallography laboratory, Agilent says its new GV1000 X-ray diffractometer is a revolutionary new instrument for the collection of high-quality diffraction data from crystalline samples of biological macromolecules. Launched this week at…

Agilent claims European patent victory

AGILENT Technologies has today claimed a victory over rival Affymetrix, after a ruling from the European Patent Office upheld its opposition to a patent including the term ‘control probe’. Affymetrix’s European Patent EP 0853679, covering ‘Expression monitoring by hybridization to…

Agilent offers single source for HPLC supplies and services

IN A bid to win lucrative new business supplying consumables and servicing for other manufacturers’ HPLC instruments, Agilent has launched its new CrossLab HPLC offering. The move expands the CrossLab operation into high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) in addition to the…

Mittermaier scores Agilent early career award

AGILENT Technologies has named Anthony Mittermaier, associate professor of chemistry at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, as the winner of its fourth annual Early Career Professor Award. This year’s award focused on the field of structural biology using nuclear magnetic…

Bioinformatics software analyses next-gen sequencing data

AGILENT Technologies has released version 12.0 of GeneSpring, its bioinformatics software, with new capabilities for the analysis of next-generation sequencing data and the facility to work across for transcriptomic, metabolomics, and proteomic platforms – or as Agilent describes it, ‘multi-omics’.…

Faster tools for food safety and fish identification

A NEW project to verify the accuracy of food labelling, and to quickly identify strains of salmonella, will see Agilent Technologies develop new tests based on mass spectrometry and lab-on-chip techniques, under an agreement with the US Food and Drug…

HPLC with added supercriticality

A NEW hybrid ultra high-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) launched by Agilent Technologies is the first to incorporate supercritical fluid chromatography capabilities. The 1260 Infinity Hybrid SFC/UHPLC system allows the researcher to select the most suitable separation method for the sample…