Instruments have been designed for added sensitivity, throughput and robustness specifically in the food and beverage, environmental, forensic, clinical research and pharmaceutical analysis markets
Applied Biosystems/MDS Sciex have announced the launch of two new mass spectrometers, the API 3200 and the 3200 Q Trap LC/MS/MS systems with Turbo VSource.
The new instruments have been designed for added sensitivity, throughput and robustness specifically in the food and beverage, environmental, forensic, clinical research and pharmaceutical analysis markets.
They are said to provide greater flexibility, cost-effectiveness and ease-of-use, and condense the proven Applied Biosystems/MDS Sciex Turbo V source, API 4000LC/MS/MS system-series interface and ionisation sources into smaller platforms.
The API 3200 LC/MS/MS system with Turbo V source, a triple quadrupole instrument for quantitation and analyte detection studies, allows easy method transfer from LC/UV to LC/MS/MS workflows, offering improved speed and simplified sample preparation.
The 3200 Q Trap system is a hybrid triple quadrupole-linear ion trap instrument for small molecule identification, characterisation and quantification, and protein biomarker discovery and validation.
It provides a greater than two-fold sensitivity increase in linear ion trap mode at all flow rates, and up to a five-fold signal-to-noise increase in traditional triple quadrupole mode over its predecessor.
The 3200 Q Trap system will be part of the new Bioitraqsystems used for proteomics and biomarker studies and will incorporate the NanoSpray source and nanoflow interface.
