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The LCGC Awards have now been in existence since 2008, and with several years of award winners now active in the chromatography community, it is fair to say that we now have a reasonable track record and body of work to review in measuring the impact these awards have had, both on the industry and on the winners themselves.

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Pest detection

New indicators of plant health have been identified by gas chromatography that could provide a remote method for identifying plants that are under attack from pests.

Electronic lab notebook

Agilent Technologies has announced that Maquet of Ardon, France, has purchased the company?s OpenLAB ELN electronic lab notebook bundled with Surety's AbsoluteProof third-party, digital timestamping service.

An affiliate of New Mountain Capital announced the completion of its acquisition of Mallinckrodt Baker from Covidien for approximately $280 million.

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Waters Xevo TQ-S is designed for the most demanding quantitative UPLC/MS/MS applications. Using direct injection on Xevo TQ-S removes sample preparation and enables a simple, high-throughput analysis of pesticides in drinking water.

Breast milk study

Agilent Technologies has announced that a group of researchers from the University of California, Davis, USA, has found that human breast milk contains an unexpected abundance of sugars that coats the lining of infants? intestines, protecting it from noxious bacteria.

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Watch the Video and Download the Notes! Ron Majors leads the way to getting more speed and resolution from any HPLC, using the power of Agilent Poroshell 120 columns to transfer your existing method.

To support what the company describes as a growing customer base in South East Asia in the fields of automated sample preparation for GC-MS and LC-MS, GERSTEL has founded a subsidiary in Singapore.

Green Chemistry

Participants in this Technology Forum are from Agilent Technologies, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Waters Corp.

Service contract extended

PerkinElmer has announced the extension of their OneSource Laboratory Services contract with Minerva Scientific, a specialist pharmaceutical testing laboratory based in Derbyshire, UK.

Tall Poppy of the Year

Dr Robert Shellie, a senior lecturer at the University of Tasmania (UTAS) school of chemistry, researcher at the Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science (ACROSS) and LCGC Europe EAB member and columnist, has been named 2010 Young Tasmanian Tall Poppy of the Year.