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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.

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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.

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

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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.

The Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley has announced that it is seeking nominations for the 2013 Dal Nogare Award.

LCGC recently interviewed Mariann Neverovitch, the EAS 2011 program chair, about the upcoming conference, its 50th anniversary, and more.

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Waters Corporation (Milford, Massachusetts) recently welcomed the University of Minnesota?s (Minneapolis, Minnesota) Mass Spectrometry Laboratory into its Centers of Innovation Program. Waters honored the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory under the direction of Joseph Dalluge for his research in diagnostic marker assay development relevant to cystic fibrosis and other diseases.

Waters - Diastereoselective Separation of Permethrin Using the ACQUITY UPSFC System

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