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Milestone events, like LCGC's celebration of 30 years of covering separation science, always prompt reflection on the past and consideration of what the future might hold. Thus, for this 30th anniversary issue, we turned to the experts in five key areas of our coverage: sample preparation, gas chromatography (GC) columns, GC instrumentation, liquid chromatography (LC) columns, and LC instrumentation. Now, in the special group of five articles in this issue, we bring you their perspectives on the state of the art: what the most important recent advances have been, where things stand today, and where the field is likely to go next.

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An alternative approach to liquid–liquid extraction is explored.

Ion-exchange chromatography (IEC) is based on the different affinities of analyte and eluent counterions for the oppositely charged ionic functional groups on the stationary-phase surface of an exchange resin. Depending on the charge of the surface electrostatic groups, the resin could be either an anion exchanger (positively charged stationary phase) or a cation exchanger (negatively charged stationary phase).

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The statistical nature of experiments leads to the fact that standard deviation (SD) of replicate analysis is not constant but a number with some variability: a standard deviation has its own standard deviation. As a consequence, a SD calculated from three experiments is not rugged and even SDs from ten experiments show a great variability. Analysts should be aware that with 100 or more the results have low scatter

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Waters NA - Analysis of Organic Light Emitting Diode Materials by UltraPerformance Convergence Chromatography™ and Mass Spectrometry

Waters NA - Analysis of Advanced Lithographic Materials for the Semiconductor Industry by UltraPerformance Convergence Technology

Agilent (Santa Clara, California, USA) will collaborate with the Samsung Medical Centre, one of South Korea's leading medical institutes, on medicine and genetics research projects.

Agilent (Santa Clara, California, USA) will collaborate with the Samsung Medical Centre, one of South Korea's leading medical institutes, on medicine and genetics research projects.

Experts from the pharmaceutical industry discuss current and emerging trends in detection techniques, the growing presence of UHPLC technologies and the impact of company consolidation. Participants in this forum include Simon Lomas, Brand Manager, HPLC and UHPLC products, Phenomenex, Frank Steiner, Manager, Small Molecule Solutions, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Dominic Moore, Senior Business Manager Pharmaceutical Business Operations, Waters Corporation.

The new Thermo Scientific Dionex UltiMate 3000 XRS system—an extremely versatile solution for ultra-high resolution and high throughput UHPLC applications with 1250 bar and extreme low gradient delay volume.

Nobel Laureate, Sir Harold (Harry) Kroto, will present the Wallace H. Coulter Plenary Lecture at Pittcon 2013.

HFL Sport Science (HFL), a part of the LGC Group (Teddington, Middlesex, UK) and one of the world’s largest sports drug surveillance laboratories, is preparing for its role testing the horses competing in equestrian events at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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Waters NA - Analysis and Purification of Diastereomeric Steroid Saponins from the Trigonella foenum-graecum Seed Extract Using SFC/ELSD

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Waters NA - Alleviating Sample Complexity of a Natural Product using the MV-10 ASFE System

Agilent NA - Mass Profiler Professional and Personal Compound Database and Library Software Facilitate Compound Identification for Profiling of the Yeast Metabolome

Agilent NA - A Q-TOF Generated, Metabolomics-Specific LC/MS/MS Library Facilitates Identification of Metabolites in Malaria Infected Erythrocytes

ACE Excel 2µm Ultra Robust UHPLC columns from Advanced Chromatography Technologies offer you all the benefits that chromatographers have come to expect from ACE columns (exceptional reproducibility and robustness, combined with excellent quality and efficiency) but have been especially engineered to withstand the demanding conditions of UHPLC.

As the need for improvements in the yield, insect resistance and abiotic stress tolerance of crop plants continues to increase, Gia C. Fazio and colleagues Wayne Skinner, Zina Dahmani, Yingzhi Lu and Jean C. Kridl have collaborated on a paper that describes the use of liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) to quantify the expression of levels of a transgenic protein, barley alanine aminotransferase, across multiple rice lines.

HFL Sport Science (HFL), a part of the LGC Group (Teddington, Middlesex, UK) and one of the world’s largest sports drug surveillance laboratories, is preparing for its role testing the horses competing in equestrian events at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Agilent (Santa Clara, California, USA), The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the University of California, Davis, California, USA, and the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention have announced a collaboration to create a public database of 100,000 foodborne pathogen genomes to help speed identification of bacteria responsible for foodborne outbreaks.

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Showa Denko - LC-MS analysis of statins by ODP2 HP column