
In a well-behaved method, changes in peak shape should occur gradually over hundreds or thousands of samples. Tailing of one or a few peaks usually points to a problem.

In a well-behaved method, changes in peak shape should occur gradually over hundreds or thousands of samples. Tailing of one or a few peaks usually points to a problem.

Crop development to improve yield or disease resistance has been explored for centuries and the technologies to measure these improvements have subsequently become complex.

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Gradients can provide improved peak shape, higher efficiency, and sometimes altered selectivity and improved resolution.

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Click the title above to open the July 2012 issue of Current Trends in Mass Spectrometry, Volume 10, Number 3, in an interactive PDF format.

Chiral separations are important in several application areas, most notably in pharmaceutical analysis. Participants in this Chiral Technology Forum include Chris Hamman and Mengling Wong of Genentech, Marc Jacob of Phenomenex, and Zachary S. Breitbach of the University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, USA.

Bruker (Billerica, Massachusetts, USA) has opened a new applications and customer support centre of excellence in Moscow, Russia.

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.

Metrohm complements its portfolio of intelligent IC systems with an amperometric detector. As an alternative to conductivity and UV/VIS detectors, it can be used for efficiently determining electroactive compunds.

Merck Millipore (Darmstadt, Germany) has announced that Vincent Donovan has been appointed Head of BioPharmaceutical Process Solutions.

Chiral separations are important in several application areas, most notably in pharmaceutical analysis. Participants in this Chiral Technology Forum include Chris Hamman and Mengling Wong of Genentech, Marc Jacob of Phenomenex, and Zachary S. Breitbach of the University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, USA.

Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, California, USA) has announced that it has completed its acquisition of cancer diagnostics company Dako (Glostrup, Denmark).

Agilent CrossLab is growing. The new LC portfolio from Agilent Technologies provides chromatography instrument supplies for Waters, Thermo/Dionex & Shimadzu HPLC instruments.

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.

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences (Brea, California) recently launched its nationwide Discovery in Motion tour, a mobile exhibit equipped with state-of-the-art laboratory instrumentation that will travel coast-to-coast throughout the continental United States, with a few stops scheduled in Canada.

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Bruker (Billerica, Massachusetts, USA) has opened a new applications and customer support centre of excellence in Moscow, Russia.

In 2008 the rostrum from an ancient warship was recovered from the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily.

In a new paper to be published in the July issue of LCGC North America, Fabrice Gritti and Georges Guiochon of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, Tennessee, USA) present results from their latest studies in their research on the kinetic mechanisms of chromatography columns packed with core?shell particles.

Get lower detection limits in difficult matrices with less sample prep. The Thermo Scientific TSQ 8000 triple quadrupole GC-MS/MS delivers next-level performance along with the unstoppable productivity you need.

The 23rd analytica, the International Trade Fair for Laboratory Technology, Analysis and Biotechnology, concluded in Munich, Germany, at the end of April with more than 30 000 visitors.

Frog legs are a well known delicacy of both French and Cantonese cuisine.

The western US and British Columbia are currently experiencing an infestation of bark beetles that are a potentially destructive force in forest ecosystems.

The protein Bowman-Birk Protease Inhibitor (BBI) is present in soybeans and demonstrates strong cancer chemoprotective properties.

Waters has held a ceremony for its new mass spectrometry headquarters that are planned for completion in 2014.

Incognito expresses his concern about the diminishing supplies of helium and its rising cost.

Chiral separations are important in several application areas, most notably in pharmaceutical analysis. Participants in this Chiral Technology Forum include Chris Hamman and Mengling Wong of Genentech, Marc Jacob of Phenomenex, and Zachary S. Breitbach of the University of Texas at Arlington.

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Bruker (Billerica, Massachusetts, USA) has opened a new applications and customer support centre of excellence in Moscow, Russia.