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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.

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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.

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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.

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

Live Lab tour review

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.

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Supplement analysis

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.