The Column-09-06-2012

September 06, 2012

Fasha Mahjoor, Founder and CEO of Phenomenex (Torrance, California, USA), will leap off the 87th floor of The Shard in London on 3 September to raise money for The Outward Bound Trust, an educational charity.

September 06, 2012

Glycoprotein monosaccharide compositional analysis is important for the development and manufacture of glycoprotein human therapeutics. Here we report a robust method for this analysis. This chromatographic method requires no mobile phase preparation thus saving time and delivering excellent retention time reproducibility that results in good method reproducibility.

September 06, 2012

Market Profile: UHPLC

September 06, 2012

The invasion of the cane toad (Rhinella marina) in tropical Australia has come at a great cost to native species and domestic pets since their introduction.

September 06, 2012

The North Carolina State University Plants for Human Health Institute (PHHI) and the Dole Nutrition Research Laboratory (Kannapolis, North Carolina, USA) have collaborated to form a joint industry-academic postdoctoral fellowship, the first of its kind at the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC).

September 06, 2012

Sample clean-up using solid-phase extraction (SPE) and similar methods can sometimes be both time-consuming and expensive. The purification of complex plant extracts requires special care in particular. A robust and sensitive online SPE sample preparation method is described for the determination of steviol glycosides.

September 06, 2012

A team of scientists has produced evidence that the pathogen, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, was present over 17000 years ago in a skeleton of extinct Bison antiquus.