The Column-10-22-2010

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.