Amersham Pharmacia Partners with Analytica of Branford.Piscataway, NJ 3/13/00-Amersham Pharmacia Biotech bi·o·tech n. Informal Biotechnology. biotech Noun short for biotechnology Noun 1. announced that it has entered into an exclusive distribution and manufacturing agreement with Analytical of Branford to develop high performance mass spectrometry mass spectrometry or mass spectroscopy Analytic technique by which chemical substances are identified by sorting gaseous ions by mass using electric and magnetic fields. systems for protein analysis. Amersham also announced its intention to acquire a majority stake in Analytical of Branford, which originally developed atmospheric pressure atmospheric pressure or barometric pressure Force per unit area exerted by the air above the surface of the Earth. Standard sea-level pressure, by definition, equals 1 atmosphere (atm), or 29.92 in. (760 mm) of mercury, 14.70 lbs per square in., or 101. ionization ionization: see ion. ionization Process by which electrically neutral atoms or molecules are converted to electrically charged atoms or molecules (ions) by the removal or addition of negatively charged electrons. MS. The first product of the collaboration is the Ettan API-ToF LC-MS. LC-MS enables the company to more effectively compete with Micromass/Bio-Rad and PerkinElmer/Genomics Solutions protein analysis solutions. It is also likely that Analytica will be fully acquired in the not-too-distant future. |
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