The Column-05-09-2011

Scientists from the national laboratories of five African nations, including participants from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal and Sierra Leone, have gathered in Accra, Ghana, Africa, to take part in technical training for detecting substandard and counterfeit medicines.

The Singapore Eye Research Institute will advance biomarker candidates that it has identified for chronic inflammatory eye conditions into large-scale clinical trials for validation using AB SCIEX technology.

Researchers have successfully extracted proteins from 600000 year old mammoth bones, using a technique that could be used to identify remains of very old extinct animals from tiny bones fragments.

Dionex has updated its methods to allow for more sensitive testing of toxic hexavalent chromium in drinking water.

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This work presents a proof of concept that using freshly produced ultrapure water to prepare nano LC eluent does not cause emitter clogging.

Effective analysis of branched glycopeptides using porous graphite chromatography

The three main types of volatile extraction techniques are purge and trap, headspace and thermal desorption equipment.