We advance human health and well-being by providing an extensive portfolio of in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) systems, reagent kits, and software used by thousands of hospitals and laboratories worldwide. Most notably, Waters delivers technologies for newborn screening, an area of clinical diagnostics that has made a healthy adult life possible for millions.
For decades, mass spectrometry (MS) developers and users have lived with a familiar trade‑off. Instruments designed for the highest analytical sensitivity often come with implicit costs: fragility, frequent maintenance, and performance that drifts under the pressures of routine use. Conversely, the most robust systems have sometimes been viewed as blunt tools—reliable workhorses, but lacking the…
As clinical LC‑MS adoption continues to grow across toxicology, endocrinology, therapeutic drug monitoring, and metabolic testing, laboratories face an increasingly difficult challenge: delivering results that are not only sensitive, but routine, reproducible, and economically sustainable. While investment decisions often focus on mass spectrometry (MS) detection, experience across clinical laboratories shows that chromatography is frequently the…
When variability appears in clinical liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC‑MS) data, the mass spectrometer is often the first place that laboratories look. Changes in signal intensity, quantitative drift, or failed batches are frequently attributed to detector performance, ion optics, or acquisition settings. Chromatography is often the root cause of the variability observed at the mass spectrometer….
In clinical liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC‑MS), sensitivity and specificity often dominate the conversation. But behind every reliable result is a less visible parameter that determines whether workflows scale smoothly or struggle under pressure: retention time stability. As clinical laboratories increasingly rely on LC‑MS for high‑throughput, multi‑analyte testing, retention time stability has become a defining factor…
Mass spectrometry (MS) is more powerful than ever. Modern clinical MS systems deliver extraordinary analytical sensitivity, selectivity, and quantitative performance, opening the door to broader test menus with lower detection limits. With capabilities like these, it’s tempting to ask a simple question: Does chromatography still matter as much as it used to? The short answer…
The Waters MassTrak Immunosuppressant Calibrator, Control, and Internal Standard Sets, soon available, are developed to help laboratories utilize LC-MS/MS with confidence in their assay results.
Our MassTrak IVD solutions provide customers with a range of instrumentation, reagent kits and informatics that can be configured to support laboratory workflows ensuring regulatory compliance.
The Waters Chemistry Technical Service Group is made up of world-class chromatography experts with an ability to uncover ways that labs can be made more robust and reliable.
Accurate screening for extractables and leachables (E&Ls) is imperative for consumer safety, no matter the product. Be it a pharmaceutical, an item of food packaging, or a medical device, consumers place their trust in manufacturers to protect them from the thousands of potentially harmful chemicals that can leach into their products.
Learn more about the practice of newborn screening as we unravel the science behind it in our monthly Renata Newborn Screening Podcast series.
Digging deep into the human biome, Professor Yoshiya Oda of the Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Tokyo looks to ion mobility technology to uncover deposits of insight It’s an established fact that the more people age, the more they tend to engage with health care providers than they did when they were…
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…