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IDEX Health & Science

IDEX Health & Science offers instrument manufacturers increased pump performance in a new Sapphire Engineering 30,000 psi Check Valve for UHPLC systems.

At Pittcon 2012 Waters announced that a new line of analytical standards and reagents will be manufactured at a new, purpose-built facility in Golden, Colorado, USA.

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Organophosphate flame retardants (OPFRs) are used in a variety of commercial products worldwide, however, little is known about their environmental and health impacts.

Fast disease

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention have developed a faster method for detecting infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus.

Miniaturized GC

Miniaturized gas chromatography (GC) technology has matured further by the development of arrays of nanoelectromechanical sensors (NEMS) on a large scale.

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Toxic mushrooms

A team of scientists has solved a series of mysterious deaths in southwestern China?s Yunnan province

Smoking fingers

A team of scientists has conducted an experiment using capillary-scale ion chromatography with suppressed conductivity detection to analyse gunshot residues, sweat and latent human fingerprints.

Man's best friend

A recent discovery in the Atai mountains of southern Siberia has presented some of the oldest known evidence of dog domestication.

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Although the Indian economy has garnered world attention with its importance in the IT and service sectors, the country has recently become far more prominent in industries that are strong sources of demand for analytical instrumentation. Foremost among these are the country?s life science industries including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, contract research organizations and the public sector comprised of academia and government.

Unfit for Purpose...

Incognito asks how 'fit for purpose' are your system suitability tests?

This Monday morning session will be presided over by Elizabeth Harris (Mankind Corporation).

The 2012 Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley Dal Nogare Award will be presented to Purnendu K. (Sandy) Dasgupta, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Texas at Arlington, this morning at Pittcon 2012.

Ralph N. Adams Award

Norman Dovichi, of the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Indiana) will be presiding over this Wednesday afternoon session.

This afternoon session is a continuation of today's morning session 1010 "Advances in Fuels and Petrochemical Analysis I". Eugene Barry of the University of Massachusetts Lowell will be presiding.

An innovative oral session called Liquid Chromatography: Stationary Phase Architecture chaired by Richard A. Henry from Supleco/Sigma Aldrich (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) begins at 8:00 a.m. today in room 311C.

Agilent has announced that their Science and Technology Symposium 2012 will feature a mobile trade show that will run from 20 March until the 12 June.