LCGC North America-09-01-2008
LCGC North America
A Shock to the System, Part II
September 01, 2008
GC Connections
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John Hinshaw concludes his two-part series on electrical issues in the laboratory.
Agilent and University of Technology Sydney Establish Elemental Bioimaging Facility
September 01, 2008
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Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, California) and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS, Sydney, Australia) have established the UTS Elemental Bio-Imaging Facility to study trace metals and other elements in tissue and their effects on health.
Isoelectric Prefractionation for Proteomics
September 01, 2008
Directions in Discovery
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A number of commercial in-solution, and in-gel IEF fractionation systems are described in this month's column.
Highlights of HPLC 2008: Part II
September 01, 2008
Column Watch
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Ron Majors continues his summary of the technical highlights of HPLC 2008, discussing more hot topics from the show.
Torion Technologies, Inc. Partners with Smiths Detection
September 01, 2008
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Torion Technologies, Inc. (American Fork, Utah), a manufacturer of automated miniaturized, hand-portable GC and toroidal ion trap mass spectrometry (TMS) technology, has announced a partnership with Smiths Detection (Danbury,Connecticut), part of the global technology business, Smiths Group, and a technology developer and manufacturer of sensors that detect and identify explosives, chemical and biological agents, weapons, and contraband.
Improving the Confidence of Unknown Compound Identification by First Responder Mobile GC–MS Laboratories...
September 01, 2008
Article
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A novel method that significantly improves the accuracy and reliability of "unknown" compound identification for volatile organic compounds by GC-MS is described.
Odds and Ends from the Inbox
September 01, 2008
LC Troubleshooting
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John Dolan regularly receive e-mails from readers with a wide variety of questions. As he cleans out his inbox, he chooses a few of these to share.
Mass Spectrometry in North America and Europe
September 01, 2008
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Despite a recent history of major innovation in many areas of the market, the position of mass spectrometry as one of the most powerful analytical techniques available, and the cutting edge applications in which it is used seem to drive the continuation of such a rapid pace of innovation and breakthroughs.
Whitesides to Deliver Pittcon 2009 Plenary Lecture
September 01, 2008
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The Pittsburgh Conference (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) has announced that George M. Whitesides, the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts), will be the Plenary Speaker at Pittcon 2009 on March 8, 2009.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Receives Microsoft Award
September 01, 2008
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Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, Massachusetts) has received a Microsoft Corporation 2008 Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation Award in the Discovery and Product Innovation category.
Stability of Formic Acid in Methanol Solutions and the Implications for Use in LC–MS Gradient Elution Analysis
September 01, 2008
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Dilute formic acid solutions in methanol were found to decline in acid content with time, the extent of the decline depending upon the initial amount of water present in these solutions. The effect of the formic acid concentration change upon the separation of peptides using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is examined briefly.