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The 2013 Lifetime Achievement in Chromatography Award is granted to Peter W. Carr. Here we chart his career and accomplishments.

Wine is enjoyed worldwide, with France renowned as a top producer. However, the earliest known biomolecular evidence of grape wine and winemaking has been presented in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)1

High performance liquid chromatography?mass spectrometry (HPLC?MS) was used by Danish scientists to identify a potential hazard associated with new fluorinated chemicals widely found in many food packaging materials, including microwave popcorn bags and pizza boxes, according to a study in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology.1 The chemicals have been implicated in the disruption of androgen synthesis.

Imperial College London has announced the opening of a new and unique national research facility: the MRC-NIHR Phenome Centre, a collaboration between Imperial College London (London, UK), King?s College London (London, UK), Waters Corporation (Massachusetts, USA), and Bruker BioSpin (Massachusetts, USA). The centre has secured funding of ?10 million from the Medical Research Council (MRC) and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) for the first five years.

Incognito thinks about falsifying scientific data and the consequences of quality commitment.

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Trajan Scientific and Medical (Victoria, Australia) has completed the acquisition of the Chromatography and Liquid Handling businesses of SGE Analytical Science (Ringwood, Victoria, Australia).

Scientists from Stockholm University in Sweden have developed a method for screening and determining drugs in human saliva using microextraction by packed sorbent (MEPS) and liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC?MS?MS).1

The 2013 Chromatographic Society Martin Medal was awarded to Gunther Bonn and Frantisek Svec.

19 June ? Amsterdam, Netherlands ?Wednesday morning will feature sessions in the Auditorium in celebration of the scientific career of Wolfgang Lindner. Michael L?mmerhofer and Barry Kargerwill kick off proceedings by presenting the High-Performance Lindner Chromatography Award. David McCalley will present a mid-morning keynote talk entitled: ?Influence of phase type and solute structure on changes in retention with pressure in RPLC|?. Over in the Emerald room Hans-Gerd Janssen will begin the morning with a stimulating talk on food analysis. A series of tutorials will run throughout the day, this morning the featured topic is supercritical-fluid chromatography led by Isabelle Francois.

9 June ? Amsterdam, Netherlands ? Wednesday afternoon will feature a keynote talk in the Auditorium from Michael L?mmerhofer on nanoparticle-based sample preparation for oxidized phospholipids as biomarkers of oxidative stress. Martin Giera will lead a talk in the Emerald room on the evaluation of different column chemistries for fast urinary metabolic profiling. High-throughput protein interaction analysis will be a talking point in rooms G102-103. Sessions will draw to a close with a discussion on needs for metabolomics in the Emerald room.

One of the highlights of the HPLC2013 afternoon sessions on Tuesday 18 June 2013 is the keynote presentation given by Mark Schure on Challenging the Present State-of-the-Art of Polymer Separations. Ed Bouvier will discuss Advances in Size Characterization of Synthetic Polymers and Wilfred Niessen will describe the Role of MS in Post-column On-line/At-line Bioactivity Screening. There will also be a discussion on the future of polymer analysis.

The first Uwe D. Neue Award was presented at HPLC 2013 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to Joseph Jack Kirkland on June 18, 2013.

The morning sessions of at HPLC2013 on Tuesday 18 June 2013 will begin with the Uwe D. Neue Award presentation to Joseph Jack Kirkland by Martin Gilmar and Georges Guichon. Jack Kirkland will then give a keynote presentation called Optimized Superficially Porous Particles for Protein Analysis. This will be followed by a talk by Gert Desmet on Understanding the Fine Details of the Band Broadening Processes in LC. Professor Boguslaw Buszewski will discuss LC?MSn Study of Biomarker Metabolites of Human Diseases and Paola Dugo will reveal her insights into Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Liquid Chromatography in an illuminating tutorial session

GC-MS is the most widespread tandem technique in the analytical instrumentation industry and is employed in many different industries, particularly for environmental, chemical, and toxicological applications.

The China Chromatography Network will participate in the "2013 World Biochemistry Analytical Instruments and Laboratory Equipment Exhibition in China" (2013 LAB World China), taking place at the Shanghai New International Expo Center on June 25.

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The nature of retention time changes in HPLC tends to fall into categories. Firstly, the retention time may "drift" over several injections or several analytical campaigns and secondly, the retention time may suddenly "jump to a different value between injections or between analytical campaigns (i.e. analyte retention times are very different to when that method was run last).

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Bruker Corporation (Bremen, Germany) has signed an exclusive patent license agreement with 3M Company (Elyria, Ohio), which allows Bruker to use 3M patented innovations relating to matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry imaging.

Agilent Technologies (California, USA) and Shimadzu (Kyoto, Japan) have announced that they will exchange instrument drivers. This exchange aims to give users a wider choice of instrumentation for their laboratories, regardless of the computer data system (CDS) they use.

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Porvair Sciences has published a new mini catalogue that brings together key technical and descriptive details of the company?s comprehensive range of deep well microplates together with an independent report that demonstrates the suitability of the ultra-clean plates for long term compound storage and sample collection applications.

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