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At the Pittcon Conference in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA) Horizon Technology (New Hampshire, USA) donated an original SPE-DEX 4700 instrument to the Chemical Heritage Foundation. The donation was made to mark the company?s 20th anniversary.

Waters (Massachusetts, USA) has announced the selection of the St John?s Research Institute (SJRI)(Bangalore, India) ? known for its proteomics research ? for it?s Centers of Innovation program. St John?s is the first research institution in India to join the programme.

Shimadzu?s brand-new universal BID-2010 Plus detector applies the patented, Barrier Discharge Ioniza-tion (BID) breakthrough technology.

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Oceanographers have extremely challenging analysis problems to overcome. Can analytical chemists help? The Collaborative on Oceanographic Chemical Analysis workshop, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, connects scientists in these two fields to exchange ideas. And that is good, because the needs are great. Kevin Schug takes a look at where that collaboration might lead.

John D. Roberts, Institute Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) received the 2013 American Institute of Chemists (AIC) Gold Medal.

In celebration of its 20th anniversary, Horizon Technology (Salem, New Hampshire) donated an original SPE-DEX 4700 solid phase disk extraction unit to the Chemical Heritage Foundation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).

Metrohm (Herisau, Switzerland) has announced the formation of a strategic alliance with FOSS (Hilleroed, Denmark). Metrohm will become the sole global distributor of FOSS NIR instruments for the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and environmental sectors.

High performance liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (LC?MS) was used to investigate cell-to-cell communication.

The University of Manchester (Manchester, UK) has announced the start of the world?s biggest allergy study. Eurofins (Brussels, Belgium) is one of the main industry laboratory participants in the four-year study sponsored by the European Commission.

After developing a GPC/SEC method by selecting the optimum stationary and mobile phase an optimization of the default conditions is a good idea.

AB Sciex (Massachusetts, USA) and Leco (Michigan, USA) have formed a co-marketing partnership to provide support for researchers working in metabolomics in Europe and North America.

The benefits of miniature MS and how it can be combined with a preparative flow chemistry system.

Dr Shabaz Mohammed from Oxford University, Oxford, UK, spoke to The Column about his group's activities in protein analysis and the importance.

The heart of Richard I ? King of England from 1189?1199 and nicknamed ?Richard the Lionheart? ? has been analysed by gas chromatography?mass spectrometry (GC?MS), combined with an array of other bioanalytical techniques.

This article illustrates how chromatographic techniques can be used to establish milk authenticity.

The amount of vitamin D in supplements can be anything from 9% to 146% of the stated dose, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Internal Medicine.1

Click the title above to open the LCGC North America April 2013 Recent Developments in HPLC and UHPLC Supplement, Vol 31 No s4, in an interactive PDF format.

A demonstration of how to successfully convert from capillary zone electrophoresis to dual-opposite injection capillary zone electrophoresis for routine experiments is outlined.

Supercritical fluid chromatography has become a viable option for the separation scientist in diverse areas, and the field now seems more adequately described as an extension of HPLC, or perhaps as "carbon dioxide–based HPLC."

The 20th International Symposium on Electro- and Liquid-Phase Separation Techniques (ITP2013) will take place at the Hotel Beatriz Atlantis & Spa, Tenerife, Spain from 6?9 October 2013.

The authors explain modern UHPLC instrument design and outline simple procedures to identify causes of poor column and method performance.

The removal of azide as a potential impurity from a drug substance may be critical to its safety profile. The quantitation of thi impurity is an important control parameter. This article describes a simple and practical assay for azide using chemical derivatization and HPLC.

Part I of our yearly report, covering columns for all modes of HPLC, UHPLC, and liquid-phase separations.

Is it possible to get the same separation under isocratic and gradient conditions?

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In this month's column, Howard Barth traces the early development of SEC