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Q&A: Out Of Office Reply

Alasdair Matheson spoke to Gerda Morlock about her radical approach to boost the performance of ultrathin-layer chromatography.

UK science freeze

The Royal Society of Chemistry has welcomed the British Government's decision to prioritise science in the Spending Review.

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Scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in collaboration with the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington, USA, have created assays for approximately 20?000 human proteins, generating what is claimed to be the world?s first human Multiple Reaction Monitoring Atlas.

GC relocation

Irish manufacturer of gas chromatographs and gas analysers, AGC Instruments, has relocated to a purpose built, state-of-the-art facility.

Purifying proteins

A study of the protein absorption and binding regions has provided fresh insight into how this technique works, and could lead to better processes and cheaper drugs.

Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced its nomination for three European Outsourcing Awards (EOA).

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HPLC/UHPLC

While high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is the standard liquid separation technique in most analytical laboratories, ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography (UHPLC) is being implemented as a choice for faster, high-resolution analyses and cross-platform systems are now available. Participants in this discussion are Ling Bei and Dave Lentz of EMD Chemicals, Sergio Guazzotti of Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Elizabeth Hodgdon and Jeannine Jordan of Waters Corp.

In response to changing mandatory guidelines for federal workplace drug testing in the US, Agilent Technologies and South Bend Medical Foundation have developed new urine testing methods.

The Institute of Toxicology in the Clinical Toxicology and Poison Information Centre Berlin (BBGes) and Geneva Bioinformatics (GeneBio) have announced a collaboration to create a new spectral library taking advantage of high mass accuracy data.