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Ron Majors interviews the inventors of QuEChERS to explore the sucesses, challenges and future potential of this innovative sample preparation technique.


A systematic approach to developing drug impurity profiling methods.

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

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

The benefits of using capillary electrophoresis to detect metal ions.

Click the title above to open the LCGC North America November 2010 regular issue, Vol 28 No 11, in an interactive PDF format.




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.

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

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.

ALMSCO - Detecting drugs of abuse: Enhanced identification using BenchTOF-dx? and associated software

Thermo - Quantitation of 12 Benzodiazepines and Metabolites in Urine Using Ultrahigh Resolution LC-MS for Forensic Toxicology Use

Waters Corporation - Analysis of Intact Lipids from Biologics Matrices by UPLC/High Definition MS

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

Thermo Fisher Scientific - Quantitative Analysis of Carbonyl-DNPH Derivatives by UHPLC/UV

Dionex - Iodide and Iodate in Seawater and Table Salt

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.

Dionex - Alkylbenzene Sulfonate in Treatment Plant Wastewater

Shimadzu, one of the leading manufacturers in analytical instrumentation, and the Molnár Institute in Berlin, Germany, cooperate in applying DryLab2010 software and the new generation of Shimadzu UHPLC instruments.

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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.

Waters Corporation - Analytical HPLC to Preparative HPLC: Scale-Up Techniques using a Natural Product Extract

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.