For the first time in the company's history, Protein Discovery, Inc., a provider of specialized mass spectrometry sample preparation products and services, will participate in the annual conference of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, opening May 28, 2006 in Seattle, Washington. Protein Discovery's vice president of research and development, Dean Hafeman PhD, will deliver the poster "MALDIPlex™ Automated Parallel Sample Preparation of Biofluids for MALDI Mass Spectrometry." Additionally, company representatives will host a booth during exhibit hours to provide information on their imaging mass spectrometry services for protein biomarker discovery and small molecule localization, and PPS Silent™ Surfactant, an acid-cleavable cell lysis and protein solubilization detergent that boosts mass spectrometry signal-to-noise. The company will also preview the MALDIplex™ M5 Sample Prep Station, a new system for preparing 96 MALDI ready protein samples from serum in less than one hour.
