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Analyzing PSTs in Shellfish Aquaculture

There are many aspects of analytical science which abound with myth and legend – but gas chromatography – mass spectrometry (GC-MS), and more specifically the electron ionization (EI) process, stands out as the technique which has given rise to the largest number of ‘urban myths’ and misunderstandings.

Ultra high resolution, accurate mass (UHRAM) mass spectrometry is a powerful new approach to high throughput screening and quantitation in complex sample matrices. To learn more about how UHRAM is used in metabolomics, LCGC talked with Jason Locasale, Assistant Professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University.View the associated whitepaper.

The 39th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography (ISCC) and the 12th GCGC Symposium will be held jointly from 17–21 May 2015 in Ft. Worth, Texas, USA. This preview explains more.

This year, we are pleased to honour an outstanding chromatographer, Joseph Jack Kirkland, as the winner of the 2015 LCGC Lifetime Achievement in Chromatography Award.

Vinyl flooring in the home could be a key source of phthalates ingested and inhaled by children, according to a new study. The work was performed as part of an ongoing project by the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCCEH) at Columbia University in New York, USA, and followed a cohort of women and children living in New York city to investigate the impact of phthalate exposure on the health of children.

Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, Massachusetts, USA) has acquired Advanced Scientifics, Inc. (ASI) (Millersburg, Pennsylvania, USA) for $300 million (US) in cash.

On Monday 2 February the New York State Attorney General’s office sent letters to four major retailers accusing them of selling fraudulent herbal supplements and demanding that they remove the products from their shelves. To the surprise of many analytical chemists, however, the accusations were based on DNA barcoding technology rather than chromatographic analysis.

PerkinElmer and Waters Collaborate

The University of Leicester and Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, UK, are starting a clinical trial into a gas chromatography–field asymmetric ion mobility spectrometry sensor (Owlstone Nanotech Ltd.) for the detection of early-stage lung cancer.

Click the title above to open The Column March 09, 2015 Europe & Asia issue, Volume 11, Number 4, in an interactive PDF format.

Click the title above to open The Column March 09, 2015 North American issue, Volume 11, Number 4, in an interactive PDF format.

In this blog installment, I would like to share a little advice with those of you who are attending your first major conference.

Gas chromatography (GC) is often regarded as a mature technology and some say that the application base has become routine; however, conventional detectors may not be able to keep up with the speed of separations that can be achieved today. In this new video Kevin Schug from the University of Texas Arlington, USA, talks about the development of a new vacuum ultraviolet (UV) detector, from the initial idea to the fundamentals of its operation.