All News

Hyphenated Techniques

Joining us for a discussion on hyphenated techniques are Ian Jardine from Thermo Fisher Scientific, Massimo Santoro from PerkinElmer and Jürgen Wendt from Leco.

The European patent office has granted a patent entitled ?Proteome-wide quantification of small molecule binding to cellular target proteins? to German company, KINAXO Biotechnologies.

NASA has selected ITT Analytics' OI Analytical total organic carbon analyser to measure water quality on board the International Space Station. A conductivity temperature meter from the company will also be used.

What are the latest trends in hyphenated techniques and what benefits do they offer? We asked Ian Jardine, Thermo Fisher Scientific; Massimo Santoro, Perkin Elmer; and Jürgen Wendt, Leco.

Volatile Extraction

The three main types of volatile extraction techniques are purge & trap, headspace, and thermal desorption equipment.

Thermo Fisher Scientific has completed the previously announced sales of its two laboratory-testing services businesses, Athena Diagnostics and Lancaster Laboratories, in two separate transactions, resulting in total proceeds of $940 million.

Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced plans for a new manufacturing facility in China within the Suzhou Science and Technology Town as part of the company's expansion in the region.

06meteor-717053-1408621359289.jpg

Space seed

American researchers say that they have found strong evidence to support the possibility of the seeds of life being brought to Earth by meteorites.

LifetimeAward_2011_M-715735-1408622759651.jpg

James W. Jorgenson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received the 2011 LCGC Lifetime Achievement award. We spoke to him to talk about his work and his thoughts about the future of chromatography.

06wine-717049-1408621365138.jpg

Red wine and rodents

Little is known about the role of selective attention in odour discrimination, which is why a group from Japan has assessed whether mice can discriminate between different liquors, just like a wine expert.

Lablogic has installed a Flow-RAM gamma radio HPLC detector for PET and SPECT at Imperial College's Hammersmith Hospital Campus in London, UK.

LGC Standards has opened a new facility at Chamberhall Green, Bury, UK. The new, purpose-built site will provide a centre of excellence for the operation of the company?s proficiency testing service.

A collaboration has been agreed between AB SCIEX and Alturas Analytics to accelerate the adoption of dried blood spot analysis for drug discovery and development.