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Iced tea

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Green tea is drunk by many for the health benefits of the antioxidant catechins, which are thought to help fight heart disease and other conditions. The stability of these compounds is important for choosing the best storage conditions and determining an accurate shelf life. However, a study has revealed that they may not be as stable as was once thought.

HPLC Collaboration

BAC BV, a Dutch provider of antibody-based affinity purification technology, has announced a strategic collaboration with Life Technologies, a manufacturer of molecular diagnostic and research-use products, which will bring the range of BAC's CaptureSelect affinity ligand specificities to Life Technologies' Poros chromatography media and pre-packed HPLC columns.

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CHROMacademy, CHROMmunity and The Column have won a Media Pioneer Award at the 2011 Specialist Media Show, for outstanding innovation and entrepreneurial achievement in specialist media.

HPLC 2011 highlights

As HPLC 2011 in Budapest is the first HPLC show since Thermo?s acquisition of Dionex, the company has been using the show to showcase a new expanded chromatography portfolio.

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Synthetic cannabinoids, commonly found in ?herbal incense? brands were recently declared controlled substances by the US Drug Enforcement Agency. To assist the drug testing industry in detecting these substances, Agilent Technologies has produced a GC?MS compendium.

Antibiotic study

A study into the effectiveness of antibiotics in septic patients being treated with continuous renal replacement therapy has found the regimens to be ineffective in some cases.

Tackling fish fraud

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Fraud in the fisheries sector can range from low-cost catfish sold as expensive sole to cod caught in the North Sea but declared as originating from the Baltic.

An agreement between Swiss-based biotech company Roche and UCLA in the US will provide cancer researchers with the technology to drive research capabilities and further the understanding for complex disease, it has been announced.

The Column

As the use of new alloys grows, the need to protect those materials from oxidation by using the correct type and thickness of coating becomes increasingly important.

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PerkinElmer has acquired Labtronics, a Canadian provider of procedures-based electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) solutions for laboratories performing routine analysis in multiple industries.