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Doping diagnosis

The Column

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.

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Smoking fingers

The Column

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.

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The Column

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

Man's best friend

The Column

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

LCGC Europe eNews

BGI has opened its first European genome research centre, which is located in Copenhagen Bio Science Park (COBIS).

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LCGC Europe eNews

In Europe four Shimadzu product series carry the eco-label representing the company?s multi-levelled energy saving program. The GCMS-QP2010 Ultra and SE and the LC-20AP systems, as well as the new GC-2025 and the TOC-L series feature the eco-label.

LCGC Europe eNews

Wyatt has announced that Professor Judit E. Puskas from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Akron has developed a system to solve a controversial material problem using their instrumentation.

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LCGC Europe eNews

The new catalog provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview on the complete range of TSKgel HPLC columns and delivers basic information on the Toyopearl® and TSKgel® resins for biopurification.

GC Technology Forum

E-Separation Solutions

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.

E-Separation Solutions

Click here to view the complete E-Separation Solutions newsletter from February 10, 2012.

E-Separation Solutions

The Federal Laboratory Consortium is recognizing the U.S. Department of Energy?s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) (Richland, Washington) for bringing a laboratory-developed technology that improves research sample analysis to the marketplace.

LCGC Europe eNews

Phenomenex has announced that it has expanded its international team to serve Sweden directly from its Scandinavian subsidiary in Denmark.