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Click the title above to open the LCGC Europe June 2015 regular issue, Vol 28, No 6, in an interactive PDF format.

Click the title above to open the LCGC North America June 2015 regular issue, Vol 33 No 6, in an interactive PDF format.

Click the title above to open the LCGC North America June 2015 Application Notebook, Vol 33 No s6, in an interactive PDF format.

VUV Analytics (Texas, USA) has announced that Dr. Jean Andino of Arizona State University (Arizona, USA) is the recipient of their summer 2015 academic grant.

The CAMAG TLC-MS Interface allows for rapid and contamination-free elution of TLC/HPTLC zones with online transfer to any given HPLC-MS system. Depending on the MS, substances can be identified within a minute.

Gyula Vigh, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry and inaugural holder of the Gradipore Chair in Separation Science at Texas A&M, has been awarded the Arnold O. Beckman Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievements in the field of electrodriven separation techniques sponsored by Sciex Separations, a division of AB Sciex (Massachusetts, USA).

The 21st International Symposium on Separation Sciences (ISSS) will be held at the Grand Hotel Union in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 30 June–3 July 2015.

VWR, a global distributor of analytical products headquartered in Pennsylvania, USA, has announced its acquisition of the analytical instrumentation manufacturer Hichrom Limited based in Berkshire, UK.

Researchers from the University of Toronto in Canada have developed a novel approach using digital microfluidics to analyze multiple steroid hormones in small tissue samples (1–10 mg) collected using core-needle biopsy (CNB) sampling.

Click the title above to open The Column May 22, 2015 Europe & Asia issue, Volume 11, Number 9, in an interactive PDF format.

Click the title above to open The Column May 22, 2015 North American issue, Volume 11, Number 9, in an interactive PDF format.

LCGC blogger Tony Taylor describes how to easily transfer column dimensions and particle morphology using three equations.

In developing countries, access to medicine is often limited. To make matters worse, widespread counterfeiting often means that even when patients get access to drugs, the drugs are of poor quality. Dr. Mélisande Bernard, of the Agence Générale des Equipements et Produits de Santé, the technical and pharmaceutical service of the public hospital system of Paris, France (Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris), is helping to address this problem by developing chromatographic methods to detect substandard cardiovascular drugs in Africa.

The first Virtual Symposium on Applied Separation Science (VSASS) will be held on 25–29 May 2015 on-line. Accessible via a web link (www.vsass.org), the entire symposium will be held on-line including posters, workshops, and sessions.

Now that I have been at UT Arlington for 10 years, I have had many opportunities to refine my own approaches to teaching, in hopes that the learning curve to achieve meaningful learning for students is not as steep as the one I had to manage.

I got into a discussion with a learned colleague recently regarding the relationship between peak height and flow rate in gradient HPLC. We haven't really resolved the discussion, there are suggestions regarding "peak focussing," the number of column volumes in relation to the gradient volume (number of column volumes per minute), increases in efficiency etc.

Communicating Data: Is Your Transmitter Faulty?

HPLC 2015 - The 42nd International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques

Markes International (Llantrisant, UK) has been awarded a 2015 Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade decreed by Her Majesty The Queen of Great Britain, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, David Cameron. The awards are announced each year on the Queen’s birthday, 21 April.

Beer from a 1840s shipwreck in the Baltic Sea has been analyzed by a team of scientists at the VTT Technical Research Centre in Finland. Using a variety of chromatography techniques - including gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC–MS) and high-performance anion-exchange chromatography (HPAEC) coupled to MS - the team compared the beer with modern-day varieties and found they were not too dissimilar.

Agilent Technologies (California, USA) and Scion Instruments (California, USA) have announced a gas chromatography instrument agreement, which will allow users to operate instruments from both manufacturers in each company’s chromatography data systems.

Exposure to flame retardant additives could be a contributing factor to the occurrence of feline hyperthyroidism (FH) in Swedish cats, according to a new study. The authors also suggest that pet cats can be studied as markers of environmental contamination in the home.

Click the title above to open The Column May 06, 2015 Europe & Asia issue, Volume 11, Number 8, in an interactive PDF format.