Lewis Botcherby

Gerstel GmbH & Co. KG celebrated its 50th anniversary this year and to mark the occasion hosted a gala event open to its staff and partners from across the globe.

Peak Scientific has announced an expansion of their European presence with a number of new hires and offices.

Lab Innovations has announced that science writer and broadcaster Adam Rutherford will be a keynote speaker at this year’s event held at the NEC in Birmingham, UK.

Ellutia Chromatography Solutions has opened a new dedicated training centre in Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK.

Monitoring the endocrine status of marine mammals can give valuable information to researchers. Overall health, health issues, and an animal’s pregnancy status can all be deduced from the careful analysis of steroid hormones. However, gaining such data is not easy. The difficulty of obtaining blood samples in the wild necessitates the use of alternative matrices, such as blubber, that in turn provide a number of analytical challenges. Aiming to solve these issues a team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a novel method using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS) to analyze blubber obtained through remote sample collection. Ashley Boggs from NIST spoke to The Column about the benefits of this newly developed technique and its potential wider application in animal research and management.

Researchers from The First Institute of Oceanography in Qingdao, China, have developed an exact mass suspect screening approach for identifying multiple lipophilic marine toxins in seawater, suspended particulate matter (SPM), and marine sediment using LC–TOF-MS.

Restek has been awarded company of the year by The Pennsylvania/Delaware Chapter of the ESOP Association during its annual conference on 14 September 2017.

Markes International has announced the opening of a new subsidiary in Shanghai, China.

Researchers from the University of Minnesota have investigated the effects of cold water immersion on athlete recovery in combat sports training using SCX HPLC and ELISA.

Pharmafluidics has announced the appointment of Fasha Mahjoor as an independent director.

Phenomenex Inc. has announced that it will begin to directly serve customers in Switzerland following the mutually agreed upon end of its 26-year-old partnership with local distributor Brechbühler AG.

Peak Scientific has announced a new partnership with SEKO logistics intended to optimize its supply chains across the Chinese and U.S. markets.

Researchers from the Japanese Institute of Neuroscience have identified differences in the low-molecular-weight metabolite profiles of the brains of schizophrenia patients using CE–TOF-MS.

Researchers from the University of Torino have developed a novel HPLC–HRMS application for evaluating cosmetic ingredient composition. The application was used to analyze and compare sturgeon eggs, commonly known as caviar, and brill eggs, and their use in beauty creams as lipid sources.

A method to determine the quality of olive oil has been developed using a novel atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) source in combination with gas chromatography (GC) coupled to hybrid quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (QTOF-MS) and a metabolomics strategy.

VUV Analytics has announced Hans-Gerd Janssen and his laboratory at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, as the recipient of their academic grant.

Researchers from the Université de Strasbourg, France, have developed a method to discover cocoa bean origin by analyzing chocolate polyphenols using high performance liquid chromatography–diode array detection–mass spectrometry.

Valentina D’Atri from the University of Geneva spoke to The Column about the evolving role of HILIC in biopharmaceutical analysis.

Peak Scientific has celebrated 20 years since its foundation.

Ram Sasisekharan has received the 2017 Agilent Thought Leader Award in recognition of his contributions in the field of biologics characterization.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. and SRI International have announced they will be collaborating to enhance small molecule research.

Researchers from ANSES have investigated the human health risks related to the consumption of foodstuffs produced on sites polluted by munitions from the First World War using GC–MS, HPLC–ICP-MS, and UHPLC–MS.

Eurofins Scientific has announced the acquisition of Nab Labs Group, one of the largest independent environment testing laboratories in Finland.

Phenomenex Inc. has announced the opening of a new manufacturing and development facility dedicated to the company’s gas chromatography columns.

Shigeru Terabe has received the Arnold O. Beckman Medal and Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievements in the Field of Electro-Drive Separation Techniques. The Sciex sponsored award was presented to Terabe as part of a Special Award Plenary Session at the 33rd International Symposium on Microscale Bioseparations (MSB 2017).

Researchers investigating fragments of black organic matter found scattered at the 7th century ship-burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, UK, have discovered the material is not what it was originally identified as.

Thermo Fisher Scientific has been selected as a partner of INTELLItrace Work Package (WP) 18, part of the European Food Integrity Project aimed at developing a validation of untargeted methods to assure the quality, authenticity, and safety of the food chain.

Researchers have developed and validated a stability- and potency-indicating assay protocol for high-throughput quality assessment of vaccines consisting of recombinant virus- “like” particles (VLPs) using conformation-dependent antibodies coupled to size-exclusion high performance liquid chromatography (SE-HPLC).

Fluence Analytics, formerly Advanced Polymer Monitoring Technologues (APMT), has announced an increase in investment led by Energy Innovation Capital (EIC) but also including participation from other investors.

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing, China, have used high‑performance size-exclusion chromatography (HPSEC) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) to study the stabilization of inactivated foot and mouth disease virus.