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Waters launched its Apple iPad application at the recent HPLC conference that took place last month in Budapest, Hungary. The app will allow customers to choose the most appropriate sample plates, vials and filters at the touch of the screen.

As ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography (UHPLC) gains ground as a technique of choice among scientists in the pharma and R&D community, questions arise as to how this may affect the QC lab and its current methods.

Agilent Technologies has formed an allegiance with the National University of Singapore Environmental Research Institute (NERI), which will leverage the organizations? key strengths in life sciences and chemical analyses.

Results from research conducted by scientists at Pfizer for a new method for residual active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) analysis have recently been published in a case study by Phenomenex.

Thermo Fisher Scientific has opened a new centre of excellence for chromatography consumables and speciality products, within Pharmez, a pharmaceutical Special Economic Zone in Ahmedabad, India.

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Budding potential

Poplar buds could hold untapped potential as an ingredient in anti-ageing skin creams, a study has found.

BioTools Inc., of Jupiter Florida, and Chiral Technologies Inc., of West Chester, Pennsylvania, have entered into a cooperative agreement that will provide comprehensive coverage of chirality-related services and technologies ranging from small scale and preparative chromatography to absolute configuration of chiral compounds.

Vaccine developed

Scientists in The Netherlands have identified a potential vaccine for the deadly chikungunya virus (CHIKV) that has spread to Europe recently.

Responding to widespread recalls of potentially harmful phthalate?tainted food and beverages in Asia, AB Sciex has provided food safety investigators with a new method to identify the harmful plasticizer.

Scientists from Roche, in collaboration with the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, have developed a spectral database to help organizations in the fight against counterfeit medicines.

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Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, USA, have developed a new technique that allows researchers to collect large amounts of biochemical information from nanoscale bone samples.

Strategic alliance

Metrohm has announced that two of its subsidiaries, Metrohm Nordic and Metrohm India will become exclusive distributors for Analytik Jena?s products in Scandinavian countries and India.

The collaboration between the UK?s Health Protection Agency (HPA) and Thermo Fisher Scientific has led to a significant development in mapping the proteome of the organism responsible for the recent E. coli outbreak in Europe.

As ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography (UHPLC) gains ground as a technique of choice among scientists in the pharma and R&D community, questions arise as to how this may affect the QC lab and its current methods.

Shimadzu UK has unveiled a new product evaluation laboratory facility at the analytical and environmental instrument manufacturer?s central UK headquarters in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.

Chromacademy - Dr. Tony Edge (Technical Manager, Thermo Scientific) and Tony Taylor (Technical Director, Crawford Scientific) present HPLC Column Characterization and Selection for reversed phase separations. Essential reading for anyone developing reversed phase HPLC methods or those who want to know more about stationary phase chemistry.

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Merck's Christopher Welch spoke to Alasdair Matheson, editor of LCGC Europe, about high-throughput analysis using MISER chromatography and how it can boost your laboratory's productivity

Termite study

A study of the processes that termites use to break down plant cell walls could provide new enzymatic pretreatment processes for the production of biofuels.