LCGC North America-05-01-2006

LCGC North America

Market Profile: Pharmaceutical Market Demand for Life Science Instrumentation

May 01, 2006

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Globally, 2005 sales of pharmaceuticals have been estimated at approximately $550 billion. A significant fraction of this amount was due to the top pharmaceutical companies in the world. The top five companies alone were responsible for total revenues of $168 billion, or 30% of the entire market.

The Rise and Fall of Expertise in Gas Chromatography

May 01, 2006

Column Watch

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Guest columnist Walter Jennings reflects on the early days of capillary gas chromatography (GC) and how chromatographers become experts in the technology by constructing their own columns, thereby achieving a more thorough understanding of the chromatographic process.

Peaks of Interest

May 01, 2006

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Water and Bruker annouce collaboration Millipore increases investments in international markets Grace opens center in Shanghai ACD/Labs, Applied Biosystems, and MDS SCIEX sign agreement

Method Validation and Robustness

May 01, 2006

Validation Viewpoint

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The authors define robustness, instroduce a few approaches to designing a robustness study, and discuss data analysis necessary to help ensure successful method implementation and transfer as a part of method validation protocol.