The Column-05-24-2010

The development of an ultra-sensitive gas chromatographic technique has enabled a team of researchers from the University of Derby, UK, to detect cocaine at picogram levels from forensic swabs.

Ten miles off the Californian coastline, at the bottom of the Santa Barbara channel, domes rise from the Pacific Ocean floor. A paper published on-line in the journal Nature Geoscience identified these as a series of unusual underwater volcanoes.

Ireland?s National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT) and Waters have announced a collaboration that will create the first database for glycan analysis by UPLC.

By using a metabolomic approach, a group of researchers have described some key differences between stem cells and mature cells as well as metabolites associated with the transition between the two.

This article aims to demonstrate a novel accelerated method development approach to develop HPLC and/or UPLC methods

Prediction systems for chromatographic retention times.

This month Incognito reflects on his own laboratory's strategies for column care and shares their working practices for increasing the longevity of each column and preventing degradation.