The Column-10-22-2010

November 04, 2010

Mallinckrodt Baker will now be known as Avantor Performance Materials, company officials announced as they unveiled a new name and identity following the recent acquisition by an affiliate of New Mountain Capital.

November 02, 2010

Following the accident at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986, the surrounding area remains substantially contaminated with radioactive isotopes. A study into the adaptations of the surrounding plant life has suggested that the plant proteomes remain largely unchanged by the radio contamination.

October 28, 2010

Scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in collaboration with the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington, USA, have created assays for approximately 20?000 human proteins, generating what is claimed to be the world?s first human Multiple Reaction Monitoring Atlas.

October 26, 2010

A study of the protein absorption and binding regions has provided fresh insight into how this technique works, and could lead to better processes and cheaper drugs.

October 22, 2010

Incognito turns his attention in the second part of this series to looking at ways of decreasing analysis time in capillary GC.

October 22, 2010

Why are many pharmaceutical companies outsourcing their chromatographic needs to contract research organizations?

October 22, 2010

Accurate and sensitive all-ions quantification using ultra-high resolution LC-MS

October 22, 2010

Ultra high performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) systems, also referred to as fast LCs, are designed to take full advantage of smaller particles (sub 2 ?m), which yield higher resolution and increased sensitivity.