WALTHAM, Mass. & ABBOTT PARK, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, and Abbott, a global, broad-based health care company, today announced that the companies will jointly present on the applications of exact mass Time-of-Flight (TOF) mass spectrometry for advancing pathogen detection research at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference in Salt Lake City.