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Terry Berger of Berger Instruments (Newark, Delaware) and Geoffrey Cox of Chiral Technologies, Inc. (West Chester, Pennsylvania) will chair a Monday morning session titled "Chiral Separations" in Ballroom B.

A Wednesday morning session titled "Surface Properties, Interactions and Retention Selectivity" will be held in Ballroom B starting at 10:30 a.m. The Session Chairs will be Georges Guiochon of the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, Tennessee) and Wolfgang Lindner of the University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria).

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Agilent Technologies has been selected by the South African Doping Control Laboratory as the primary provider of gas-phase testing instruments for the 2010 World Cup. The South Africa Doping Laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art gas chromatography and mass spectrometry instruments from the company, which will be used to confirm the chemical identity of suspected banned substances found in testing samples.

The session titled "Pharmaceutical Analysis" will be chaired by Wolfgang Goetzinger of Amgen Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and Robert Plumb of Imperial College (London, UK) on Tuesday afternoon in Ballroom A.

Farewell to HPLC 2010

We have reached Day 3, the final day of LCGC's coverage from HPLC 2010, and somehow, it never fails to surprise us to find that we've concluded another week of coverage. However, HPLC still has plenty to offer, including another full day of technical sessions and exhibits tomorrow, so we hope you can take advantage of everything the conference has to offer in your remaining time.

The Monday morning plenary lectures will be held in Ballroom ABC beginning at 8:30 a.m., and the Session Chair will be Barry Karger of the Barnett Institute at Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts).

Welcome to HPLC 2010

Good morning, and welcome to LCGC's first day of show coverage from HPLC 2010, held this year in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Hynes Convention Center.

Monday morning's session titled Monoliths I, to be held in Ballroom B, will be chaired by Karin Cabrera of Merck KGa (Darmstadt, Germany) and Emily Hilder of the University of Tasmania (Hobart, Australia).

Good Morning and welcome to Day 2 of LCGC's continuing coverage of HPLC 2010. We hope you've been able to take in some of the sights and sounds of Boston, Massachusetts, in addition to attending the many technical sessions and exhibitor booths at this year's conference.

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HT800L from HTA

The new HT800L from HTA is a fast and versatile HPLC autosampler for highly precise injections into HPLC, UHPLC and LC/MS systems.

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Squalene and squalane are oils, often used in the production of cosmetics and vaccines. Originally derived from the liver oil of deepwater sharks, squalane is also available from olives, and since 2008 some important cosmetic firms have claimed to switch to this more ethical squalane supply. However, the shark oil offers a higher yield and lower costs, so suppliers face the temptation to disguise the oil?s origin, while continuing to exploit sharks. A method in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry is reported to reveal the source, protecting sharks, as well as cosmetic firms and consumers.

Chiral Technologies is partnering with Vanderbilt University?s programme in drug discovery to supply enantioselective chiral chromatography columns and custom separation services.

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Fatal flora

In the forests of Borneo in South-East Asia, a carnivorous pitcher plant, Nepenthes rafflesiana, lures, traps and digests small animals, mainly insects. As part of the lure, the pitchers copy flowers in a variety of ways, producing nectar as well as using bright colours and ultraviolet patterns. A study published in the Journal of Ecology has shown that this mimicry also includes a range of floral scents to trick insects to their demise.

A newly launched library of more than 5,000 human proteins is desinged for increased accuracy in high performance liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry analyses, according to life sciences company OriGene Technologies.

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ChromaTOF 4.30

ChromaTOF 4.30 is now available for all your LECO instrument systems.

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SPH1240

Spark Holland?s new ultra high pressure pump, the SPH1240?, provides 18,000 psi for the entire range of UHPLC analytical flow rates, guaranteeing a rapid and reproducible gradient.

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Agilent J&W Ultra Inert GC columns push industry standards for consistent column inertness and exceptionally low column bleed, resulting in lower detection limits and more accurate data for difficult analytes.

The Pittcon programme committee has announced the call for papers for Pittcon 2011, which will be held at the Georgia World Congress Centre, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 13?18 March 2011.

Joining us for this forum are Margit Geissler, product manager of GC/GC-MS from Shimadzu and Bob Wiedemer, technical service chemist from Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Waters has announced that it has entered into an agreement with PREMIER Biosoft International to co-market software produced by the firm with their mass spectrometry solutions for glycan and glycopeptide analysis.

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The development of an ultra-sensitive gas chromatographic technique has enabled a team of researchers from the University of Derby, UK, to detect cocaine at picogram levels from forensic swabs.

The Essential Guide to: Understanding Stationary Phase Chemistry for Reversed Phase HPLC (Part I)

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High content screening (HCS) is a high-throughput method, which enables the functional analysis of cells.