Micromass Wins Highest Honors At The Threshold of the Post-Genomic Era.Business Editors MILFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2000 Waters Corporation's (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :WAT wat n. A Buddhist temple in Thailand or Cambodia. [Thai, from Sanskrit v  ) wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned SubsidiaryA subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. , Micromass Limited, has been honored twice in the U.K. in the latest Queen's Awards for Enterprise. This year a total of 116 awards were granted in three cateogies: International Trade (77), Innovation (32) and Environmental Achievement (7). Micromass has won two of these prestigious awards, the first for International Trade and the second for Innovation. 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. (MS) is now the analytical method of choice for many life-enhancing applications at the threshold At the Threshold, whose son Lil E. Tee won the 1992 Kentucky Derby for W. Cal Partee, died March 23 of a stroke at Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine in West Lafayette, Ind. The 21-year-old stallion stood at Wayne Houston's Stoney Creek Horse Farm near Mooreland, Ind. of the `post-genomic era'. A Queen's Award (www.queensawards.org.uk) is the highest honor that can be bestowed on a United Kingdom business. The Queen's Awards for International Trade are awarded for outstanding achievement resulting in substantial growth in export sales and commercial success, sustained over not less than three years, to levels which are outstanding for the goods or services concerned. Micromass' award for international trade recognizes the Company's outstanding record of growth and sustained export achievement. The Queen's Awards for Innovation recognize an outstanding innovation, resulting in a substantial improvement in business performance and commercial success, sustained over not less than two years, to levels which are outstanding for the goods or services concerned. The award for innovation recognizes Micromass' landmark achievement in developing and commercializing the Q-Tof(TM) tandem quadrupole A quadrupole is one of a sequence of configurations of electric charge or gravitational mass that can exist in ideal form, but it is usually just part of a multipole expansion of a more complex structure reflecting various orders of complexity. time-of-flight mass spectrometer. Micromass defined this new instrument category with its original Q-Tof(TM), first described in detail at the 44th ASMS ASMS American Society for Mass Spectrometry ASMS Association of Salaried Medical Specialists ASMS Advanced Satellite Mobile Systems ASMS Alabama School of Mathematics and Science ASMS American Society for Mohs Surgery ASMS Arkansas School for Math and Science Conference in the summer of 1996. Q-Tof(TM)2, the second-generation system, was announced at the 47th ASMS meeting in June 1999. Micromass' Q-Tof(TM)2 offers greater sensitivity, selectivity and speed than competing LC-MS-MS technologies for structural analysis in the life sciences, e.g. functional genomics, proteomics and drug discovery/development. The ProteomeWorks(TM) System enhanced with Micromass' Q-Tof(TM) technology is the definitive system for determining the function of proteins in vivo, the major analytical challenge of the post-genomic era. ProteomeWorks(TM) (proteomeworkssystem.com) is the product of a global alliance of Micromass and Bio-Rad Laboratories dedicated to furthering proteomics research. Waters Corporation is a leading supplier of high performance liquid chromatography High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is a form of column chromatography used frequently in biochemistry and analytical chemistry. It is also sometimes referred to as high-pressure liquid chromatography. instrumentation and consumables, and mass spectrometry products for the Life Sciences market, which account for $3 billion in annual revenues of the $16 billion analytical instrument total. |
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