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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.

The Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera), an executive agency of the UK Government?s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), has selected Thermo Scientific GC?MS and LC?MS systems for its analysis of food products.

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PBDEs in pasture

In the first controlled study of PDBE concentrations looking at soil, grass and the milk of cows grazed on flood-prone land on industrial river catchments, it was found that even if the land itself becomes polluted these river sediments do not introduce an increased health risk in cow?s milk.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent to Battelle, (Columbus, OH) (Number 15815), which manages Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, Washington) (PNNL), for an improvement upon their patented ion funnel technology.

A team of scientists at Washington State University, Pullman Washington, recently carried out a study on the digestive process of termites, for aid in developing enzymatic processes to create biofuels.

PSS Polymer Standards Service and Agilent Technologies have renewed and extended their VAR-channel partner agreement.

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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

Click here to view the complete e-Separation Solutions newsletter from July 7, 2011.

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Seal Sickness

A recent study has used a method designed to test human blood to confirm the presence of ciguatoxins in living seals.

Researchers at Aarhus University?s Laboratory for Proteome Analysis and Protein Characterization in Denmark are starting a series of new proteomics discovery projects, using the first AB Sciex TripleTOF 5600 system installed in Denmark as well as the company?s QTRAP 5500 system.

SIC vs HPLC

As a separation technique, it is claimed that sequential injection chromatography (SIC) has a number of advantages over HPLC, but also suffers from some limitations.

The Thermo Scientific Dionex ICS-5000 capillary ion chromatography system has been named an R&D 100 award winner by an independent judging panel and the editors of R&D Magazine.

At the ASMS 2011 conference, Jim Jorgenson of the University of North Carolina shared his thoughts on current and potential future developments in LC that will affect the practice of LC?MS. Here are his views on particle size, superficially porous particles, monoliths, open-tubular columns, and questions of pressure and temperature.