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IDEX Health & Science introduces the new Upchurch Scientific® PEEK™-Lined Stainless Steel (PLS) Tubing. The metal-free, all-PEEK fluid path withstands up to 15,000 psi, making it the ideal choice for biocompatible UHPLC applications.

Agilent (California, USA) has announced the formation of a petroleum research collaboration with the University of Houston (Texas, USA).

BAC BV (Leiden, The Netherlands) and GE Healthcare (Wisconsin, USA) have announced receipt of the ‘Collaboration of the Decade’ award at the BioProcess International Awards 2012.

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Novasep (Pompey, France) has announced an investment of €30 million into the construction of the world’s largest pharmaceutical chromatography plant.

Sigma Aldrich (Missouri, USA) has been recognized by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) (England, UK) for its approach to the disclosure of climate change information.

Series: Increasing the Scope of your Analytical Toolbox with UltraPerformance Convergence Chromatography (UPC2) - Episode 1

Shimadzu - Analysis of PBDEs in Sediment Using GC-MS/MS

Thermo NA - Rapid Determination of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) in Biosolids and Waste Samples Using Accelerated Solvent Extraction

Bruker Daltonics NA - Analysis of Dermorphin in Equine Plasma

Bruker Daltonics NA - Determination of Class 1 USP Residual Solvents and TICs

Bruker Daltonics NA - Evaluation of High Speed MRM Data Acquisition

Thermo NA - Multi-Residue Pesticide Analysis in Herbal Products Using Accelerated Solvent Extraction with a Triple Quadrupole GC-MS/MS System

Thermo NA - Extraction of Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contaminants (Diesel and Waste Oil) in Soils by Accelerated Solvent Extraction

Thermo NA - Rapid Determination of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Using Accelerated Solvent Extraction

Thermo NA - Rapid Determination of Fat in Meat Using Accelerated Solvent Extraction

Phenomenex (California, USA) has announced the formation of a collaboration agreement with ChromaDex (California, USA).

Waters (Massachusetts, USA) has announced the introduction of the University of Northern Texas (UNT) (Texas, USA) metabolomics and metabolic signalling pathway research laboratory to its Waters Centres of Excellence Innovation Programme.

Shimadzu has introduced the LCMS-8040 which combines newly improved ion optics and collision cell technology with proprietary ultrafast technologies. This significantly expands the application range and ensures high-sensitivity, high-throughput analysis at lower levels of detection.

On Target?

Protein/peptide discovery data obtained from data-dependent experiments have been used to increase the success rate of targeted quantification assays as well as automate method building.

Global warming is a contentious issue, with different groups voicing opposing opinions on if, how and at what rate the warming is occurring. The general consensus is that with increased industrialization, greenhouse gas emissions have also increased, resulting in the formation of a so-called 'greenhouse effect'. The origin of greenhouse gases is therefore of great interest to the scientific community.

GPC/SEC (gel permeation chromatography/size exclusion chromatography) methods generally contain multiple detectors in order to gather more information about the molecular structure of macromolecules.1. Up until now, however, the practice and the impact of detector combination has not been discussed.

Spodoptera littoralis is a destructive caterpillar pest indigenous to tropical and subtropical areas of agriculture that has the potential, if accidentally imported, of becoming a major greenhouse pest in Northern Europe. The UK government agency Defra reports that many populations of the species are already highly pesticide resistant2.

The Column spoke to Dr J-F Focant, associate professor at the chemistry department of the University of Liege, Belgium, about thenatochemistry and his recently published articles profiling the 'smell of death'.

Conditions of acute and chronic anaemia that are the result of either a long-standing medical condition (sickle-cell anaemia) or surgical intervention (chemotherapy) often require the administration of blood transfusions to improve the capacity of the patient's red blood cells to carry oxygen1. Red blood cell (RBC) populations have a short shelf life in storage as a result of biomechanical and biochemical changes that reduce the RBC functionality. This has an impact on the viability and therapeutic benefits of ex vivo RBC transfusions.

Preparing Red Wine Extracts for LC-MS-MS Pesticide Analysis

The authors characterized twelve SFC achiral stationary phases with 60 compounds from four chemical classes to establish guidelines for the rational selection of the optimum stationary phase for separations.