For nearly a year, we've been providing new product development assistance to Prosolia, Inc., a fully integrated life sciences company that develops, manufactures, and markets revolutionary analytical chemistry tools that enhance and expand the use of mass spectrometers.

Prosolia was established in 2003 to commercialize technology arising from the laboratory of Purdue University Professor R. Graham Cooks, Ph.D. The company's first product line, Omni Spray® Ion Sources, utilizes the ambient ionization technology known as desorption electrospray ionization (DESI).

DESI, is a simple, sensitive, gentle, and versatile ionization method that allows for the direct and rapid sampling of surfaces without any sample preparation.

Last month DESI was the hero of an installment of the popular television series CSI: Miami, when it proved to be the critical technology needed to "crack the case" in an episode that aired November 24.

Among the tasks we've performed are design changes which enable use of the Omni Spray® Ion System with a variety of mass spectrometer models, and work on other proprietary Prosolia products expected to hit the market soon.