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Leco (Michigan, USA) will support the new West Coast Metabolomics Center, based at the University of California, Davis, Genome Center (California, USA).

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

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced 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.

Click here to read the full Europe E-newsletter from 1 March 2013.

Click the title above to open the LCGC Asia Pacific March 2013 regular issue, Vol 16, No 1, in an interactive PDF format.

Click the title above to open the LCGC Europe March 2013 regular issue, Vol 26 No 3, in an interactive PDF format.

Click the title above to open the LCGC North America March 2013 regular issue, Vol 31 No 3, in an interactive PDF format.

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.

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

Click here to view the complete E-Separation Solutions newsletter from February 26, 2013

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

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Click here to read the LCGC Europe E-newsletter from 22 February 2013.

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.

The EVOLUTE? EXPRESS range of 96-well SPE plates combine powerful EVOLUTE sorbent chemistry with innovative features that enhance productivity by optimizing and even eliminating the need for some traditional SPE procedural steps.

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

Click here to view the complete E-Separation Solutions newsletter from February 21, 2013

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.