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Dr Ronald A. DePinho ? president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Texas, USA) ? has received an Agilent Thought Leader Award.

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DryLab®4

DryLab?4 offers users an intuitive and visual software solution for method development, optimization, trouble-shooting, robustness testing, and training. The new robustness module establishes the reliability of your method.

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In a random study of drugs from 713 pharmacies from 19 countries, 9.1% of anti-tuberculosis drugs analysed failed basic quality control testing using thin layer chromatography (TLC) for the required level of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), according to a recent study published in the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.

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Lisa Witte, vice-president/general manager of Thermo Fisher Scientific's portable analytical instruments business (Massachusetts, USA), has received a Women in Manufacturing STEP (Science, Technology, Engineering and Production) award from the Manufacturing Institute/Deloitte, the University of Phoenix and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.

Pittcon 2013 Preview

Pittcon will be held in Philadelphia for the first time this year. Philadelphia is the centre of one of the top life science clusters in the USA, bringing together the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices, R&D and a wide range of other supporting industries.

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APIX goes miniature

Analytical Pixels Technology (APIX) (Grenoble, France) has teamed up with research organisations, CEA–Leti (Grenoble, France) and Caltech (California, USA).

Quantitative proteomics aims to provide large-scale qualitative and quantitative data about every protein in a biological sample. However, drawbacks associated with current techniques can make it difficult to generate the data required. Research scientists have recently developed a new approach that allows highly multiplexed high-resolution MRM quantitation of most of the detectable proteins in a sample in a single analysis.

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An interview with Mark Hayes, a finalist for the 2012 FACSS-SciX Innovation Award. 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.

Q&A Gases

In this month's instalment, we address common questions about various gases and their delivery to a gas chromatograph.

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With so many HPLC columns on the market we present a simple guide to what's important when making your stationary phase and column dimension choices.

Man of the Masses

MS: The Practical Art Editor Kate Yu interviews Fred McLafferty about his pioneering career in mass spectrometry.