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Scientists at the University of Granada (UGR) (Granada, Spain) have identified and characterized different antioxidant compounds from foods such as olive oil, honey, walnuts, and the medicinal herb, Teucrium polium.

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amaZon speed – accelerating access to proteomicinformation

The 26th International Forum and Exhibition Process Analytical Technology (Process Analysis and Control) (IFPAC) conference will be held at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront (Baltimore, Maryland) on January 22-25, 2012.

A simple experimental setup applied in a drug discovery laboratory illustrates some anomalies and misconceptions about supercritical fluid chromatography for drug discovery.

An interview with John Knox, who brought us the Knox equation, porous graphite carbon, and other critical advances in both liquid and gas chromatography.

Combining a membrane with a solid sorbent can improve selectivity and save time in sample preparation.

This month the use of fluidic switching devices for open-tubular column manipulations is discussed.

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A review of some of the advances in technology and new applications presented at HPLC 2011, held in Budapest, Hungary.

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Demonstrates how lo-abundant clomazone metabolites buried under dominating abundant metabolites can be successfully detected, analysed and characterised.

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Click the title above to open the LCGC North America November 2011 regular issue, Vol 29 No 11, in an interactive PDF format.

Scientists Zhi-Min Long, Kai-Shun Bi, Yan-Shuang Huo, Xiao-Yu Yan, Xu Zhao, and Xiao-Hui Chen at Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, (Shenyang, China) developed and validated a sensitive and efficient liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) method for the simultaneous determination of geniposide 6a-hydroxygeniposide, and genipin gentiobioside in rat plasma.

PerkinElmer (Waltham, Massachusetts, USA) has added a Universal Operational Qualification (UOQ) as part of its suite of compliance services for pharmaceutical, biotech and other regulated laboratory environments.

Metrohm AG and Metrohm International Headquarters have moved into new, state-of-the-art facilities located in their hometown of Herisau, Switzerland.

Researchers in the Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis at the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (Punjab, India) have published new research using liquid chromatography?mass spectrometry (LC?MS) tools to characterize degradation products of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs piroxicam and meloxicam.

A team of scientists led by Takuya Kubo of the Graduate School of Environmental Studies at Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan) has published a method for reducing contaminants in environmental water analysis with liquid chromatography.

Waters EU - A Novel Sample Preparation Device for Improved Phospholipid Removal in Bioanalytical Assays

Waters recently welcomed Assistant Professor Ganesh Anand's laboratory at the National University of Singapore (NUS, Queenstown, Singapore) into its Centers of Innovation Program, making the center the first of its kind in Asia.

The Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS, Santa Fe, New Mexico) has changed the name of its 38-year-old annual conference from the eponymous FACSS to SCIX, with the tagline ?The Great Scientific Exchange.? With the change, they hope to attract a broader range of analytical scientists, including those in the separations field.

Researchers in the Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis at the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (Punjab, India) have published new research using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) tools to characterize degradation products of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs piroxicam and meloxicam.

A team of researchers led by Nawed Deshmukh of the School of Pharmacy and Chemistry at Kingston University (London, UK) has published new research using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS-MS) to identify steroid contamination in environmental water samples in Budapest, Hungary.