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Click the title above to open the March 2013 issue of Current Trends in Mass Spectrometry, Volume 11, Number 1, in an interactive PDF format.

LCGC spoke to Martin Giera of Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands, about developments in biomarker discovery.

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

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.1

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Thermo EU - GC-MS/MS Analysis of OCPs, PAHs, and PCBs in Environmental Samples

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Bruker (Massachusetts, USA) has announced the election of Marc Kastner, Dean of the School of Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Massachusetts, USA) to its board of directors.

Lisa Witte ? vice-president/general manager of Thermo Fisher Scientific?s portable analytical instruments business (California, 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.

Waters NA - Analytical Standards and Reagents

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Waters NA - Using XP Columns to Modernize the USP Organic Impurities Analysis of Tioconazole

The American Chemical Society (ACS) named Brian Bidlingmeyer of Agilent Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) and a member of LCGC?s editorial advisory board to the 2012 class of ACS Fellows.

Should HPLC eluent additives be added to one or both of the constituent mobile phase reservoirs - both organic and aqueous, when mixing gradients online?

Thermo EU - Automated Glycan Structural Isomer Differentiation Using SimGlycan Software

Tablets found aboard an ancient shipwreck could identify the early beginnings of medicine. A team of scientists led by Erika Ribechini of the University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy) determined the composition of tablets found aboard a ship-wrecked off the coast of Tuscany (Italy) around 2,000 years ago.1

When discussing optimization and improvements to costly and time-consuming purification processes "trapping" columns can be an alternative to fractionation.

A team of scientists in Germany1 has identified a new protein from the venom of the snake, Vipera palaestinae, that could be used in the development of anti-cancer drugs.

This article describes the extraction of drug residues by QuEChERS (quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged and safe) and analysis by liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization?tandem mass spectrometry (LC-ESI?MS?MS), using dynamic multiple reaction monitoring (DMRM), for the improved quantification of veterinary drugs.

In clinical and pharmaceutical testing, analkyses of drug compounds and their metabolites are often performed in complex biological matrices, such as plasma and whole blood.

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

The Microlute SPE sample preparation system from Porvair Sciences provides a faster, trouble-free alternative to cartridges for high throughput sample clean-up.

Agilent (California, USA) and Sera Prognostics (Utah, USA) have formed a strategic partnership to develop proteomic assays for the prediction of pregnancy complications. Sera Prognostics is a private biotechnology company that develops diagnostic tests for these risks.

Ultra-high sensitivity, expanded flexibility, increased stability and robustness - the new Nexera X2 UHPLC system targets routine analysis and applications in highly regulated environments demanding complex system setups.

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Thermo NA - Determining Inorganic Cations in Wastewater with HPIC

Waters - Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of β-carotene Using UPC2