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Agilent Technologies has announced that Steven Carr, PhD, director of the Proteomics Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, has been selected for an Agilent Thought Leader award supporting his work developing new technology for analysing proteins and peptides.

LECO?s TruTOF? GC-TOFMS is a cost-competitive, Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (TOFMS) instrument in a benchtop design.

Phenomenex has won the 2011 award for best biotechnology website in the Web Marketing Association?s WebAward competition. The competition is the premier award recognition programme for web developers and marketers worldwide.

Agilent CrossLab GC supplies portfolio now includes a wide range of Ultra Inert inlet liners. With innovative chemistry you get improved performance and a higher level of confidence that only comes from Agilent.

The development of the first TSKgel GPC column in 1971 had set the course for a long and proud history of size exclusion chromatography at Tosoh.

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New techniques in ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography (UPHLC) are providing scientists with additional ways to perform laboratory tasks.

A new method for testing shellfish for toxins is being adopted more widely for use on oysters and scallops thanks to Food Standards Agency research undertaken by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS). Previously a bioassay method was used for testing the toxins that are capable of causing serious illness in humans; however, this method involved the use of mice. In the new method no animals are used showing the agency?s commitment to adopting more humane methods for testing.

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Gareth Alun Morris, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Manchester has been announced as the winner of the 2011 Russell Varian prize awarded by Agilent Technologies.

On-line light scattering and viscometer detectors increase the information depth of GPC/SEC data and allow absolute molar masses and structures to be measured.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the University of Maryland and Waters Corporation have opened the International Food Safety Training Laboratory (IFSTL) ? a public?private partnership that aims to raise food standards globally, according to a Water?s press release

Advantar Laboratories Inc. has selected Waters? Empower 3 software to control its expanding portfolio of gas chromatography, high performance liquid chromatography and UPLC systems with advanced detectors including Waters? single and tandem quadrupole mass spectrometry, photodiode array and ultraviolet detectors.

The addition of extra detectors such as light scattering and intrinsic viscosity to a single-detector size-exclusion chromatography system or, better still, the use of an integrated multi-detector size-exclusion chromatography system can pay significant dividends in the breadth of sample information generated.

Eurosil Bioselect columns from KNAUER enable bioseparations providing high stability and loadability.

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Dionex EU - Determination of Sudan Dyes in Chilli Oil.

Spark EU - Robust bioanalysis of peptides with SPE/LC/MS/MS

Thermo EU - Targeted Screening of Drugs of Abuse by LC-MS/MS

Thermo EU - Analysis of Pesticides in Citrus Oil

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The health benefits of barley grain as a source of dietary fibre are well known. In the case of barley, as with most cereals, the phenolic compounds are concentrated in the bran, which until recently was removed during the milling process. Now food researchers are investigating the possibility of producing barley flours naturally enriched in bioactive compounds and have shown that the separation of different fractions of whole barley by pearling have resulted in the outermost fractions yielding the highest phenolic content.

Agilent Technologies will collaborate with Dr Shane Snyder ? an internationally recognized authority on water contamination from the University of Arizona?s Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering ? and the university?s BIO5 Institute to develop new methods of detecting emerging contaminants in water, according to a company press release.

Acquired drug resistance (ADR) is a major problem when it comes to treating some forms of cancer and one that has been baffling cancer researchers for some time. Now a team at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, USA are pioneering research using liquid chromatography multiple reaction monitoring (LC-MRM) to track the proteins involved in ADR. Ultimately this could assist in clinical decision-making for developing individualized patient treatments for multiple myeloma and other types of cancer. The research results are published in the October issue of Molecular and Cellular Proteomics.

Purnendu ?Sandy? Dasgupta, a chemistry professor at the University of Arlington in Texas, USA, has been awarded a $1.2 million grant from NASA , according to a press release from the University?s website.

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Researchers at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA have used AB Sciex?s QTRAP technology to prove the validity of a new approach to synthesize phosphoproteins.