The Column-03-09-2016

What is required to produce a highly efficient modern high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) system/column combination? This instalment of the LCGC Blog explains more.

Waters Corporation and BioCity have celebrated the opening of a new open access analytical laboratory located in the BioHub at Alderley Park, Cheshire, UK.

A preview of The Chromatographic Society’s first meeting in 2016, which will take place on Tuesday 22 March in London, UK.

Researchers studying necrophargous blowflies for forensic investigations have developed a novel gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) method for the detection of nicotine. Nicotine has been attributed to a number of accidental or sudden, suicidal, and homicidal deaths.

A team of researchers from China and the USA has developed a LC–MS–MS method for quantifying methylergonovine, a semi-synthetic ergot alkaloid used for the treatment and prevention of postpartum haemorrhage in human plasma.

Click the title above to open The Column March 09, 2016 Europe & Asia issue, Volume 12, Number 4, in an interactive PDF format.

Click the title above to open The Column March 09, 2016 North American issue, Volume 12, Number 4, in an interactive PDF format.

Jack Cochran’s new column “Practical GC” provides readers with practical advice and new experimental evidence for how to get the best results from their gas chromatography (GC) systems. The next instalment looks at GC inlet liner choice for “shoot and dilute” GC.

Characterizing Cancer Tumours using HILIC–MS