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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.

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Drinking to your health

The analysis of Nubian bones has revealed that people were making and consuming antibiotics more than 1500 years ago

I am facing a problem with an HPLC analysis. The flow rate is 1.3 mL/min. The solvents used are water (mobile phase A) and acetonitrile (mobile phase B). The program I run starts with 60% water and 40% acetonitrile. In 35 min the acetonitrile concentration reaches 100%.

Global Industry Analysts (GIA) has released a global report on the HPLC systems and accessories market. This market is projected to reach $3.7 billion by 2015.

AB SCIEX and the University of Melbourne today announced a joint technology development project to improve drug metabolism studies of biopharmaceuticals.

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Plant pigmentation

The presence of an ?animal-only? pigment, bilirubin, has been confirmed in the Bird of Paradise flower.

Northern Ireland has implemented a Thermo Fisher SampleManager LIMS system across its laboratories as part of its focus on improving sample management and maintaining the highest quality water.

Waters and Hitachi High Technologies America have entered into a distribution agreement allowing HTA to sell Waters? sample preparation and liquid chromatography (LC) columns to users in North America.

Agilent Technologies and Strand Scientific Intelligence have announced that they will be teaming up to expand the scope of the Agilent GeneSpring bioinformatics system across multiple life-science disciplines, drive future innovation and deliver new channels for accessing the software and customer support.

Sea water screening

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published two rapid screening methods for chemical dispersants in sea waters using Waters ACQUITY UPLC/Quattro Premier XE (UPLC?MS?MS).

Desty Memorial award

Dr Maria-Magdalena Titirici from The Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces has been awarded the 15th Desty Memorial award for her work on the use of thermo responsive polymers in reverse phase chromatography.

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Finding photosynthesis

The accidental discovery of a new form of chlorophyll has challenged expert?s understanding of the limits of photosynthesis.

One in every five pounds in the UK economy is dependent on developments in chemistry research, according to a new report commissioned by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

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In recent years water-soluble polymers are gaining more and more interest in different applications. The molecular weight distribution of polymers is usually characterized by size exclusion chromatography (SEC) coupled with refractive index, viscometric or laser light scattering detection. Recent advances in SEC comprise semi-micro SEC and the design of linear columns providing wide molecular weight separation ranges and near-linear calibrations. We describe the separation of water-soluble polymers with a new generation of linear, polymer-based, semi-micro SEC columns using the compact EcoSEC SEC system.