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Hichrom Limited are pleased to announce the acquisition of the Partisil® and Partisphere® HPLC column consumable product line from Whatman, a division of GE Healthcare. Based in the UK, Hichrom are a leading European manufacturer and distributor of HPLC columns, consumables and media, with manufacturing facilities accredited to both ISO9001 (Quality) and ISO14001 (Environmental) standards.

Agilent (Santa Clara, California, USA) has announced that it has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to develop new tools to detect and analyse pathogens in food.

Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, Missouri, USA) has announced that they have opened a new facility in Wuxi, China that will provide localized packaging, analytical services and quality control to support the company?s research and customers in the region.

Waters (Milford, Massachusetts, USA) has announced that it has formed a partnership with the Irish National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT) to address the world?s most challenging diseases through training and research.

AB SCIEX (Framingham, Massachusetts, USA) has opened a new Asia Pacific Application and Training Centre in Singapore?s biomedical hub at Biopolis.

Global Water Instrumentation (GWI) (Sacramento, California), a division of Xylem (White Plains, New York), has teamed up with the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service (Auburn, Alabama), the Auburn University School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (Auburn, Alabama), and the Auburn University Department of Biosystems Engineering to study hydraulic, hydrologic, and water quality changes during the transition of forested land to a residential "low impact development" (LID) subdivision.

Gassy acids

The consumption of beer is, for some, one of life?s great pleasures but it can leave behind a bitter aftertaste

TB detection

A new method has been developed for the identification and classification of various tuberculosis (TB) causing and non-TB Mycobacterium species on the basis of their characteristic metabolite profiles.

Waters takes gold

Waters has won the 2012 Pittcon Editors? Gold Award for its Acquity UPC2 system. The award recognizes the best new product at the conference.

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The Shimadzu OPTIC-4 multimode injector from Atas GL, Eindhoven, Netherlands, increases application range and detection limits of the Shimadzu GC and GCMS series.

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Agilent Quiet Cover MS

The Agilent Quiet Cover MS is the newest addition to the Agilent Quiet Cover product line.

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The Shimadzu OPTIC-4 multimode injector from Atas GL, Eindhoven, Netherlands, increases application range and detection limits of the Shimadzu GC and GCMS series.

Unfit for Purpose...

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

TB detection

A new method has been developed for the identification and classification of various tuberculosis (TB) causing and non-TB Mycobacterium species on the basis of their characteristic metabolite profiles

Improved analysis

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in western countries and is on the rise again.

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Gassy acids

The consumption of beer is, for some, one of life?s great pleasures but it can leave behind a bitter aftertaste.

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Hair care

A group of scientists in France have undertaken a study to examine the structure of proteins in human hair.

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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