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The results are in for 2012 LCGC Awards, and we are proud to announce the winners: the Lifetime Achievement in Chromatography Award is granted to Lloyd Snyder, and the Emerging Leader in Chromatography Award is presented to Emily Hilder. In achieving this honor, they join a group of illustrious past winners (Tables I and II).

LCGC North America has awarded its 2012 Lifetime Achievement in Chromatography Award to Lloyd Snyder, a man who has made countless contributions to the field of chromatography.

Strategies for reducing analysis time in capillary gas chromatography

Changing to a "better" liquid chromatography column may not always produce the expected results.

This validated method is faster and simpler than other approaches, and detection limits are comparable.

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This two-part column explains how lipids analysis has evolved and the variety of techniques and approaches currently used in lipidomics, including their advantages and disadvantages, such as sample preparation, separations and, of course, mass spectrometry.

Click the title above to open the LCGC North America March 2012 regular issue, Vol 30 No 3, in an interactive PDF format.

Quantitation of Cystine and Identification of Related Metabolites in White Blood Cells Using a High Resolution Accurate Mass LC/MS Approach

An interview with Emily Hilder, professor of chemistry at the University of Tasmania (Hobart, Australia) and the winner of the LCGC North America 2012 Emerging Leader in Chromatography Award.

The LCGC Europe 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award has been awarded to Professor Milos V. Novotny of Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana), USA.

BGI and Asia Cancer Research Group (ACRG) have announced they are to collaborate on cancer research.

Gas chromatography (GC) continues to be a workhorse technique in the analytical laboratory, but users now face choices of upgrading their systems to newer time-saving technologies or possibly switching to hydrogen carrier gas. Participants in this Technology Forum are Eric Denoyer and Rebecca Veeneman of Agilent Technologies, Jim Luong of Dow Chemical Canada, and Matthew S. Klee of JAS Inc.

LECO has opened a new separation science R&D facility in St. Joseph, Michigan, USA, the Elizabeth S. Warren Technical Centre.

Advion Inc. has appointed Universal Analytical and Testing Instruments Ltd (UATIL) the exclusive distributor of its compact mass spectrometer (CMS), the expression, in China.

Re-think the way your lab operates with the Thermo Scientific ISQ single quadrupole GC-MS system. The ISQ? GC-MS incorporates a source design that lets your system stay cleaner, longer. With heat throughout the ion optics, the ISQ GC-MS system can analyze more dirty samples per day, with maximum uptime.

Agilent microarrays have been used in a landmark research study on prenatal samples.

Confidence is knowing that you're covered. Open or partially covered solvent bottles can lead to the evaporation of solvents and harmful solvent vapors. Keep solvents where they belong with Agilent solvent safety caps.

Wastewater Analysis

Banned substance use in sports still remains a controversial and highly publicized subject. A team of scientists from the Italian Sports Medicine Federation in Rome, Italy, has developed a screening procedure specifically designed for the detection of saccharides and polyalcohols in human urine, focusing specifically on dextran, hydroxyethyl starch and mannitol.

Incognito laments the lack of knowledge of some analytical scientists and calls for more opportunities for professional development in 2012.

A team of scientists has conducted an experiment using capillary-scale ion chromatography with suppressed conductivity detection to analyse gunshot residues, sweat and latent human fingerprints.

The 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award has been awarded to Professor Milos V. Novotny, Indiana University, Indiana, USA.

A recent discovery in the Atai mountains of southern Siberia has presented some of the oldest known evidence of dog domestication.

Pittcon is returning to the sunny city of Orlando, the fourth largest airport destination in the United States.

The level of pollutants present in water bodies is most commonly judged against set environmental quality standards (EQSs) that vary among different countries.

Waters EU - UPLC DETERMINATION OF DIQUAT AND PARAQUAT IN DRINKING WATER