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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.

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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.