Sample Profiling of Pesticide Formulations Using UV and MS Detection for Component Identification

For the agricultural chemicals industry, the analytical quality control of pesticide products ensures that a consistent and effective product reaches the farm. More specifically, the detection, characterization, and quantitation of the active ingredient(s) as well as all other components in the formulation, including impurities and degradation products, are necessary to support product development, quality control,…

Nitrosamine Impurities: The Need to Verify

The recent nitrosamine impurity crisis has brought into question the quality of many APIs (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients) produced and sourced for a number of popular drugs, resulting in product recalls, lost profits, and regulatory actions. Within a drug manufacturing process that is increasingly outsourced and globalized, companies manufacturing the API or in-sourcing the API or…

Waters Opens New Swedish Head Office and Open Access Laboratory

On October 2, 2019, Waters proudly opened our new Swedish head office and laboratory in the House of Innovations, located in the center of Campus Solna next to Karolinska Institutet. The new facility features an open access laboratory designed to provide students, scientists and startup companies with an experienced technical staff and easy-to-use automation infrastructure…

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Mobile Phase Additives for Peptide Characterization

The characterization of peptides and proteins can be challenging due to issues such as adsorption, varying hydrophobicities, and specificity to name just a few. When analyzing peptides by Liquid Chromatography (LC) and Mass Spectrometry (MS), it’s beneficial to introduce mobile phase additives in order to facilitate ionization and enhance the analyte signal. Additionally, these additives…

Supporting the Next Generation of STEM Professionals

As a science-based organization, STEM education is of the utmost importance to Waters. This blog highlights the excitement of its partnership with Junior Achievement, one of the world’s largest youth-serving NGOs that prepares young people for employment and entrepreneurship.

Why does biomedical research matter?

Summer break is coming to a close and the thought of fall quickly approaching hangs heavy in the air. The mornings are cool and pleasant, perfect for sleeping. And, here I am, sipping coffee at 5:30AM. Why is it that on mornings like this, when most of the world is asleep, so many biomedical researchers are…

Amgen, UCLA, and University of Arizona Use BioResolve RP mAb Polyphenyl Columns for Rapid LC-MS Screening of Membrane Proteins

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As a chromatography scientist at Waters, I often get the opportunity to travel to different laboratories around the world and to meet with various types of researchers. This allows me to stay up to date on the newest scientific trends and topics, particularly in the fast growing world of biopharmaceutical analysis. In June of this…

ACQUITY UPLC – 15 Years On and Still Going Strong

The 30th James L. Waters Annual Symposium  will take place on Monday, March 18 in Philadelphia as part of Pittcon 2019. The theme of this year’s Symposium focuses on early research efforts required to develop Ultra High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (UHPLC) and the impact that the adoption of this technology had on the analytical chemistry…

The Future of Biopharmaceutical Development Just Became Brighter

In late January, I traveled to WCBP (Well Characterized Biological Products), an industry conference that is hosted every year by the CASSS organization. It serves as a forum that brings together biopharmaceutical industry professionals and various regulatory agencies from around the world to review and discuss the current and future state of biopharmaceutical drug development….

Method Lifecycle Management Survey Reveals Barriers and Enthusiasm for Change

Waters recently surveyed 100 method developers from innovator and generic pharmaceutical companies to better understand their existing challenges and views on Method Lifecycle Management (MLCM). We’ll share with you the top questions and findings from our survey results.

Advancing Diagnostic Screening with the RenataDX Screening System

Waters’ legacy of purposeful innovation continues with the recently introduced RenataDX Screening System, a flow-injection tandem mass spectrometry system for high-throughput analysis of extracted dried blood spots and other physiological matrices.

Nourishing Food and Water Research

Opening this week in Singapore is a new resource for scientists in the challenging position of needing analytical insights as part of their food and water research, but who lack access to state-of-the-art instrumentation … we’re so excited we wanted to share a preview!