What's New in Mass Spectrometry?

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Waters' Quattro Premier XE Mass Spectrometer

Last summer got off to a hot start at the June 2005 American Society for Mass Spectrometry meeting in San Antonio, Texas. With new product releases ranging from labeling reagents for quantitative proteomics to breakthrough hybrid mass spectrometry technology, a variety of companies took advantage of the large gathering of potential customers to introduce their wares. This roundup highlights several new and noteworthy offerings.

Thermo Electron http://www.thermo.com of Waltham, Mass., released the LTQ Orbitrap, a hybrid tandem instrument combining a linear ion trap mass spectrometer with a new Fourier transform (FT) mass analyzer called an Orbitrap (see related story, page 20). Invented by Alexander Makarov in the late 1990s, the Orbitrap is the first new mass spectrometry technique to be commercialized within the last 20 years, says marketing manager Helmut Muenster.

John Yates of The Scripps Research Institute in La ...