EIGHT universities in the UK are to benefit from a £20 million fund to upgrade nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. The equipment includes two new 1.0GHz systems (the highest field currently commercially available) plus upgrades to systems with field strengths…
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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…
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…
Miniature NMR spectrometer is ‘world first’
A NUCLEAR magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer weighing just 5kg and requiring only 20 microlitres of sample for analysis has been unveiled by Cole-Parmer. The PicoSpin-45L is aimed at academic and chemistry labs, where it should provide a low-cost way of…
Benchtop NMR gets software boost
IN RESPONSE to feedback from users, Oxford Instruments has released a new version of its MultiQuant software for the MQC family of benchtop nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) scanners for quality control applications. MultiQuant 6.1 makes the instrument more straightforward to…