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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.

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.

Agilent NA - Scalability of Agilent Columns Across HPLC and UHPLC Instruments

Agilent NA - Ultra Inert (UI) Wool Liner Performance Using an Agilent J&W DB-35ms UI Column

Waters NA - A Rapid and Sensitive Method Estimation of Octreotide in Human Plasma Using UPLC and Xevo TQ-S

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.

Researchers with the US Department of Energy (DOE)?s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have coupled an award-winning remote detection version of NMR/MRI technology with a version of chromatography designed specifically for microfluidic chips giving rise to a portable system for highly sensitive multi-dimensional chemical analysis that could not be achieved with conventional technologies.

Incognito laments the lack of the need for mathematics in his everyday working life. Are we relying too much on templates these days instead of using our brains?

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.