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A team of scientists have reported in Nature on the first chemical evidence of dairy farming in prehistoric Africa in the fifth millennium BC.

Incognito educates on estimating pH!

After five weeks and visits to ten science centre zones across Europe, Merck Millipore has completed its Live Lab tour in June in Martinsried, near Munich, Germany.

The Column spoke to Judit E. Puskas, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, polymer science and chemistry at The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, USA, about the science of studying breast implants.

Methylhexaneamine (MHA) has been in the news recently and it continues to be debated whether it is actually a constituent of geranium.

PerkinElmer, Inc., (Waltham, Massachusetts, USA) has built a personalized health innovation centre of excellence.

EDITORS' SERIES - Dioxins & Dioxin-Like Compounds: An Overview and Insights Into the Analytical Methodology

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.

Supercritical Fluid Technologies, Inc. (SFT) (Newark, Delaware) was recently awarded a State Trade and Export Promotion (STEP) grant from the State of Delaware’s International Trade and Development Group.

The winners of the 2012 R&D Awards, which salute the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year, have been announced.

After five weeks and visits to ten science centre zones across Europe, Merck Millipore has completed its Live Lab tour in June in Martinsried, near Munich, Germany.

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Waters NA - Size-Exclusion Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography Analysis of Trastuzumab

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.

Shimadzu has announced that, in partnership with the Sugiyama Laboratory within the RIKEN Innovation Centre of the RIKEN Research Cluster for Innovation, it has started research on quantitative analysis methods using LC–MS–MS to support drug discovery using microdosing.

PerkinElmer, Inc., (Waltham, Massachusetts, USA) has announced that it is to establish a personalized health innovation centre of excellence.

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Surfactant Analysis

Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, California, USA) has announced the recipients of its latest Thought Leader award: Dr Jens Frisvad and the centre for microbial biotechnology in the department of systems biology at the Technical University of Denmark.

A team of researchers from Australia has conducted a study into the way in which Drakaea livida (Orchidaceae) is pollinated.

A team of scientists from Taiwan has developed a nanoparticle/virus mass spectrometry technique to make rapid and accurate mass and mass distribution measurements of nanoparticles and viruses.

Waters (Milford, Massachusetts, USA) and the Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera) (York, UK) have announced that they will open a new laboratory-based training facility which will combine their respective regulatory, scientific and industry expertise to help solve the global food safety challenge.

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A Toolkit for GC Troubelshooting

The new version of EU GMP Annex 11 has been effective for about a year. There are new technical requirements in the Annex – do your laboratory computerized systems comply with them all? In this column we look at the impact of these new regulatory requirements for Good Manufacturing Practice laboratories.