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An interview with Norman Dovichi, winner of the 2013 ANACHEM Award. This interview is part of the 2013 podcast series presented in collaboration with the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS), in connection with SciX 2013, the federation?s North American conference.

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Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GCXC) has been performed to identify the origins of a mysterious oil sheen in the Gulf of Mexico, first reported in September 2012. The results have been published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology1 by researchers from the University of California (California, USA) and the Wood Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) (Massachusetts, USA).

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Fava beans are a good source of polyphenols and are located in different parts of the plant. Phenolic compounds are thought to contribute to the overall antioxidant activities of plant foods. However, there is a lack of information on the phenolic composition of the seeds (beans) of some edible varieties. This has led a team of researchers based in Chile and Spain to use high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to identify the composition of a variety of immature fava seeds.1

Martin Giera and colleagues from the Center of Proteomics and Metabolomics (The Netherlands) have published a study in the Journal of Chromatography B1 evaluating different column chemistries for reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RP-LC) and hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC) for fast urinary metabolic profiling.

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A new candidate biomarker of sugar and sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) intake has been proposed in a recent study published in the Journal of Nutrition.1 The study presents the carbon isotope ratio of alanine as a new biomarker for use in studies monitoring dietary sugar intake

Sigma-Aldrich (Missouri, USA) has announced that it has partnered with The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) (California, USA) to speed up access to discoveries by TSRI scientists to synthesize and analyze potential drugs. The partnership is the first to be formed between an academic institution and a reagents company.

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