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Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, California) plans to separate into two publicly traded companies: one in life sciences, diagnostics, and applied markets that will retain the Agilent name, and another that will encompass Agilent?s current portfolio of electronic measurement products.

Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, California) plans to separate into two publicly traded companies: one in life sciences, diagnostics, and applied markets that will retain the Agilent name, and another that will encompass Agilent?s current portfolio of electronic measurement products.

The Working Group Separation Sciences of the Analytical Division of the German Chemical Society are now inviting applications for the Eberhard Gerstel Prize. The prize will be awarded to a scientist for an outstanding publication in the field of separation sciences. Gerstel sponsors the prize in honour of Eberhard Gerstel Sr., founder of the company.

The US senate has passed a bill halting the impending shut down on October 7th of the Federal program for crude helium sale, storage, and delivery. The program at present supplies 40% of helium demand in the USA and 30% of worldwide demand.

The Working Group Separation Sciences of the Analytical Division of the German Chemical Society are now inviting applications for the Eberhard Gerstel Prize. The prize will be awarded to a scientist for an outstanding publication in the field of separation sciences. Gerstel sponsors the prize in honour of Eberhard Gerstel Sr., founder of the company.

Editors? Series: Fundamentals, Optimization and Practical Aspects of UHPLC: Series 2: Optimization of UHPLC systems and column technology

The Avantor? J.T.Baker® high purity solvents and reagents will give you the performance you need with minimal risk of contaminants that can limit accuracy and productivity and maximize the sensitivity and detecting power of your instrumentation.

Fully automated Dried Blood Spot (DBS) Extraction System for MS. On-card IS application module for extraction efficiencies and matrix effect correction. Wash station for minimized carry-over effects.

Markes International (Llantristant, UK) has opened a new Technical Centre in Neu-Isenburg (Frankfurt, Germany). The centre features a laboratory for customer demonstrations, in addition to a conference room for seminars and customer training. The company is planning an inaugural seminar and workshop on the 23rd of October to mark its official opening.

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Tosoh Application Note

Christie Hunt, Director of Proteomics Applications at AB Sciex (Massachusetts, USA), has won the Human Proteome Organization (HPO) 2013 Science and Technology Award.

Incognito rallies a call on the power of published research. Is open access the way forward?

The first pilot study demonstrating the application of a prototype "scent device" (commercially known as "OdoReader") to detect bladder cancer has been published in the journal PLOS ONE.1

Click here to view the full European E-newsletter from 19 September.

Analytical chemists from Indonesia have developed a metabolomics-based method to determine the authenticity of the world?s most expensive coffee, Asian palm civet coffee (Indonesian Kopi Luwak).1 Currently, there is no reliable, standard method for determining authenticity, making it an ideal target for fraud.

The Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) will be held this year from November 18 to 20, 2013, in Somerset, New Jersey. EAS is the second largest conference and exposition for laboratory science in the United States dedicated to the needs of analytical chemists and those in the allied sciences.

Kevin A. Schug, professor at the University of Texas, Arlington (Texas, USA) and LCGC North America EAB member, has led a team to survey and assess the impact of natural gas extraction from shale, also known as "fracking", on nearby water sources. The results of the assessment were recently published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.1

Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, California) and ABC Instrumentacion Analitica (ABCIA) (Mexico City, Mexico) have signed a definitive agreement for Agilent to acquire assets from ABCIA.

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Shimadzu?s new LCMS-8050 triple quadrupole LC-MS/MS meets the growing demand for trace-level quantitation in clinical research and other markets. It incorporates proprietary ultrafast technologies as well as a newly developed ion source and collision cell technology. As the flagship model of Shimadzu?s UFMS (Ultra-Fast Mass Spectrometry) product line, the LCMS-8050 features high sensitivity, high data quality and the world?s fastest data acquisition rates.

The Microlute SPE sample preparation system from Porvair Sciences provides a faster, trouble-free alternative to cartridges for high throughput sample clean-up. Handling samples as small as 150?l the Microlute? SPE sample preparation system helps you increase your assay sensitivity by providing pre-injection clean-up and concentration you can trust.

Thermo video application note: organic brown rice syrup analysis

Researchers coupling high performance liquid chromatography to mass spectrometry face the challenge of segregating the ionized, typically nonvolatile analytes from a large amount of solvent, and the mobile phase is an important component in the process. LCGC Blog editor Kevin Schug discusses factors to consider when choosing a mobile phase for LC-MS.

Kevin A. Schug, professor at the University of Texas, Arlington (Texas, USA) and LCGC North America EAB member, has led a team to survey and assess the impact of natural gas extraction from shale, also known as "fracking", on nearby water sources. The results of the assessment were recently published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.1

Choosing proper tubing connections throughout the entire system, especially when capillary tubing is used, can dramatically improve the level of sensitivity and quality of data obtained with most LC–MS systems.

A German/Chinese team led by Rainer Lehmann, of the University of Tuebingen (Tuebingen, Germany) and Guowang Xu, of the DICP (Dalian, China), has developed a method of simultaneously extracting metabolites and lipids using methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) from single small tissue samples for analysis by ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (UHPLC?MS).