
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.

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.

Waters - Rapid Analysis of Soft Drink Additives

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.

Shimadzu Product Profile

Workplace exposure to chemical contaminants is a source of potential health risks for workers.

Incognito has a well-deserved rant about the difficulties that he's experiencing in tracking down the ideal candidate!

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 14, 2011.

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.

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.

Assad Al-Ammar has joined Irvine Pharmaceutical Services, Irvine, California, as the new minerals analysis manager.

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.

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.

Thermo Fisher EU - Screening of 20 Benzodiazepines and Four Metabolites in Whole Blood using UHPLC-MS/MS

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

Phenomenex NA - An Improved HPLC Method for the Determination of Ranitidine Suitable for All Dosage Forms using Kinetex® Core-Shell Technology HPLC/UHPLC Columns

Phenomenex EU - Improved Extraction and LC/MS/MS Analysis of Barbiturates from Urine Samples using Strata?-X-Drug N SPE and Kinetex® Core-Shell HPLC/UHPLC Columns

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.

Phenomenex EU - A new and improved HPLC method based on core-shell technology has been developed to replace the various testing protocols in the existing Ranitidine HCl monographs for various dosage forms.

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.

Phenomenex EU - Analyzing Testosterone in Human Serum by UHPLC using High Efficiency Kinetex® 1.7?m C18 Core-Shell Columns

An overview on the present state of analytical lipidomics is presented from the perspective of mass spectrometry (MS) and the MS strategies most frequently used in lipidomics are highlighted.

Bruker has announced the opening of a new major applications, training and service centre in Shanghai, China.

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.