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Re-think the way your lab operates with the Thermo Scientific ISQ single quadrupole GC-MS system. The ISQ? GC-MS incorporates a source design that lets your system stay cleaner, longer. With heat throughout the ion optics, the ISQ GC-MS system can analyze more dirty samples per day, with maximum uptime.

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Agilent Solvent Safety Caps

Confidence is knowing that you're covered. Open or partially covered solvent bottles can lead to the evaporation of solvents and harmful solvent vapors. Keep solvents where they belong with Agilent solvent safety caps.

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Doping diagnosis

Banned substance use in sports still remains a controversial and highly publicized subject. A team of scientists from the Italian Sports Medicine Federation in Rome, Italy, has developed a screening procedure specifically designed for the detection of saccharides and polyalcohols in human urine, focusing specifically on dextran, hydroxyethyl starch and mannitol.

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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.

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The 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award has been awarded to Professor Milos V. Novotny, Indiana University, Indiana, USA.

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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In Europe four Shimadzu product series carry the eco-label representing the company?s multi-levelled energy saving program. The GCMS-QP2010 Ultra and SE and the LC-20AP systems, as well as the new GC-2025 and the TOC-L series feature the eco-label.

Wyatt has announced that Professor Judit E. Puskas from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Akron has developed a system to solve a controversial material problem using their instrumentation.

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The new catalog provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview on the complete range of TSKgel HPLC columns and delivers basic information on the Toyopearl® and TSKgel® resins for biopurification.

GC Technology Forum

Gas chromatography (GC) continues to be a workhorse technique in the analytical laboratory, but users now face choices of upgrading their systems to newer time-saving technologies or possibly switching to hydrogen carrier gas. Participants in this Technology Forum are Eric Denoyer and Rebecca Veeneman of Agilent Technologies, Jim Luong of Dow Chemical Canada, and Matthew S. Klee of JAS Inc.

The Federal Laboratory Consortium is recognizing the U.S. Department of Energy?s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) (Richland, Washington) for bringing a laboratory-developed technology that improves research sample analysis to the marketplace.