NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 9, 2015--
Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) today opened Pittcon 2015 by showcasing
its new capabilities and innovations that are driving analytical science
in exciting and novel directions.
"At Pittcon this year, we are showing customers how Waters' innovations
are opening doors to breakthrough solutions in Health Science, breaking
down barriers in biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes, and
reimagining laboratory data management," said Dr. Rohit Khanna, Vice
President of Worldwide Marketing for the Waters Division. "These new
capabilities and innovations are the result of Waters' scientific focus,
customer collaborations, and holistic view to optimize every component
of a solution: from hardware, to software, to consumables, to service.
That’s what it takes to keep delivering 'The Science of What’s
Possible.'"
Full Spectrum Molecular Imaging System
Leading Waters'® roster of new technologies is a new full
spectrum molecular imaging system, the first system ever to allow
scientists to access enhanced matrix-assisted laser desorption
ionization (MALDI) and desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) with
ion mobility separation (IMS) in a single mass spectrometry platform.
Based on the Waters
SYNAPT® G2-Si mass spectrometer, the
imaging capabilities of the new full
spectrum molecular imaging system enable research laboratories to
pinpoint with greater specificity the distribution of large and small
molecules within tissue samples. Information derived from imaging
experiments can greatly benefit cancer, cardiovascular and
neuro-degenerative research by measuring the distribution of molecules
in cells and tissues. MS imaging also allows researchers to identify
different tissue types based on their molecular composition.
“By combining MALDI with DESI and ion mobility on the same instrument,
Waters brings molecular imaging into a new realm,” said Dr. Jeff Mazzeo,
Sr. Director, Health Sciences, Waters Division. “We are committed to
giving cell biologists, biochemists, clinical researchers and analytical
scientists the tools they need to obtain a maximum amount of information
to advance their research into human health. The new full spectrum
molecular imaging system combines and optimizes Waters' mass
spectrometry technologies to deliver a level of detail and molecular
information beyond that of any individual imaging technique."
Waters plans to begin shipments of its full spectrum molecular imaging
system in the third quarter of 2015.
NuGenesis Lab Management System
Now available, The
NuGenesis® Lab Management System is a unique and powerful
alternative to a traditional Laboratory Information Management System
(LIMS) with advances that enable deeper insight into scientific
challenges, accelerated decision-making, better business results and
compliance with government regulations.
The NuGenesis Lab Management System offers high impact functionality.
New advances include NuGenesis SampleShare, an optional, secure
web-client for sample submissions and results management; NuGenesis
Stability, a complete stability protocol management and testing solution
to facilitate a consistent regimented workflow across lab operations;
NuGenesis Connectors, a bi-directional link between lab systems and
business applications, and Paradigm™ Scientific Search, a fully
integrated scientific search solution for text, documents and science
objects.
Uniquely combining data, workflow and sample management capabilities to
support the entire product lifecycle from discovery through
manufacturing, the NuGenesis Lab Management System is a user-centric
platform that encompasses a Scientific Data Management System (SDMS),
Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) and Laboratory Execution System
(LES).
“The NuGenesis Lab Management System is more comprehensive than anything
in its class, combining new improvements with key existing capabilities,
minus the complex, costly and time-consuming limitations associated with
traditional LIMS,” said Garrett Mullen, Senior Product Marketing
Manager, Laboratory Management Informatics at Waters Corporation. “It
readily adapts to existing informatics environments, smoothly linking
data from the lab to the business operations of a company enabling
science-driven organizations can see more, know more and do more.”
GlycoWorks™ RapiFluor-MS™ N-Glycan Kit
At WCBP 2015 in Washington DC, Waters announced ground-breaking new
technology for characterizing glycoproteins. The technology includes the
new GlycoWorks
RapiFluor-MS N-Glycan Kit, the Waters ACQUITY UPLC®,
ACQUITY® UPLC FLR Detector and ACQUITY QDa®
detector, and enables scientists to analyze released N-glycans and
achieve new levels of speed, sensitivity and simplicity while obtaining
previously unattainable structural information.
This new suite of technologies enables fast de-glycosylation, labeling
and a workflow that reduces sample preparation time from a day to less
than one hour, allows mass detection for characterization and
development with sensitivity that is 100 to 1,000-fold better than
current approaches, and enables routine laboratory use supported by a
simple robust protocol without involving MS experts.
“(Today’s? – thought it was at WCBP) The new GlycoWorks
RapiFluor-MS N-Glycan Kit is a ground-breaking approach to
glycan analyses. It means scientists can monitor and characterize
released N-glycans like never before,” said Mike Yelle, Vice President,
Consumable Business Unit, Waters Division. “The new workflows take what
had been a specialized and complicated activity and transform it into
one which scientists and laboratories can be successful with.”
ACQUITY UPC2 Trefoil and Torus Technology
Columns
Waters new analytical columns for chiral and achiral separations are
designed to optimize convergence chromatography. To address the
challenges of chiral separations, Waters
ACQUITY UPC2® Trefoil™ Columns are 2.5 micron particle
columns that increase speed and selectivity while reducing method
development time. Waters
ACQUITY UPC2 Torus™ Columns for achiral separations
feature 1.7 micron particle technology and deliver a new level of
performance for achiral SFC separations in terms of resolution, speed,
selectivity and robustness. The columns were introduced at SFC
2014 and are now available for shipment worldwide.
These advanced columns are designed for use with the Waters
ACQUITY UPC2 System, a chromatographic system that takes
advantage of the power of non-toxic and inexpensive compressed carbon
dioxide as the primary mobile phase (carrier liquid) component. It is
also a “greener” alternative to expensive organic solvents. The
low-dispersion design of the ACQUITY UPC2 System combined
with the new columns offer chromatography laboratories a powerful,
robust and reliable analytical platform for increasing the speed with
which they can develop analytical methods, improve selectivity and
shorten run times, while at the same time reducing their carbon
footprint by transitioning to a greener technology. Since its
introduction in 2012, scientists using this system have
authored and published more than 80 articles in scientific journals.
“Waters continues to lead the way when it comes to making convergence
chromatography a powerful platform for robust separations," said Michael
Yelle, Vice President, Consumables Business Unit, Waters Division. “The
new Trefoil and Torus columns represent a new paradigm in phases for
carbon dioxide based separations. Designed and optimized for Waters
ACQUITY UPC2 system, these columns deliver a new standard of
performance in terms of the robustness and reliability that scientists
have come to expect from analytical HPLC."
SFE Bio-Botanical Extraction System
Waters today announced the immediate availability of a new ten-liter
extraction vessel for its SFE
Bio-Botanical Extraction System, a multi-vessel supercritical fluid
extraction (SFE) system that rapidly fractionates and extracts large
quantities of desired components from a multitude of botanical matrices.
The ten-liter vessel doubles current capacity and can be acquired as an
add-on to installed systems. It will be available on new systems in
March 2015.
"As the extraction system of choice, the SFE Bio-Botanical Extraction
System provides high extraction efficiency and selective fractionation
of an extract in a single run," said Mark Groudas, Vice President,
Americas Field Operations, Waters Division. "The drive to increase
system capacity comes directly from our customers who seek longer,
unattended operation of their extraction processes. As important as run
time, users are seeing increased consistency of final extracted products
from run-to-run."
For More on Waters at Pittcon
For a comprehensive view of Waters' activities at the 2015 Pittsburgh
Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, including a
full list of products, in-booth activities and technical presentations,
please visit www.waters.com/pittcon.
About Waters Corporation (www.waters.com)
For more than 50 years, Waters Corporation has created business
advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations by delivering
practical and sustainable innovation to enable significant advancements
in such areas as healthcare delivery, environmental management, food
safety, water quality, consumer products and high-value added chemicals
worldwide.
Pioneering a connected portfolio of separations science, laboratory
information management, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis, Waters’
technology breakthroughs and laboratory solutions provide an enduring
platform for customer success.
With revenue of $1.99 billion in 2014, Waters is driving scientific
discovery and operational excellence for customers worldwide.
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GlycoWorks, RapiFluor-MS, NuGenesis, Trefoil, Torus, QDa and The
Science of What’s Possible.
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