
7 October 2009, The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, UK.

The authors examine some critical factors with regard to buffers in LC and LC-MS research.

Guest author Uwe Neue develops the principle of kinetic plots from scratch to make them more accessible to a wider audience.

They say it takes several years for an awards program to really get off the ground and start amassing a history, establishing a place for itself in the industry. If this is true, then I believe we can safely say that this year, the LCGC Pittcon Awards have officially arrived.

Waters is to become the exclusive distributor of Fusion Method Development software developed by S-Matrix.

The former "Milestones in Chromatography" editor returns to give readers the story of his time in the field.

John Hinshaw takes a break from the technical and visits a number of chromatography forums and discussion groups.

PerkinElmer has announced the development of phthalate detection solutions in response to growing concern over hazardous content in plastics.

While we take a Christmas break the features list will run some of our most popular articles from recent issues.

Achieving selectivity in complex biological matrices is challenging. Here, a solid-phase extraction screening protocol was used to develop extraction methods for nine of 12 peptides tested on a first pass.

Millipore has announced that it has acquired the remaining 60% ownership of its joint venture in India, Millipore India Pvt Ltd.

Analysing Pesticide Residues in Apple J. Stevens, L Zhao and P.L. Wylie Efficient Automated Pyrolysis GC Patric Eckerle, Matthias Pursch, Dirk Bremer and Kaj Petersen Chiral Analysis of Flavours and Fragrances: Design of a FID/MS Splitting for MS Detection in The First and Second Dimension of a Multidimensional GC-MS System S. Böhme, H.-U. Baier and M. Gei&3946;ler News Analysing paper degradation, pesticide identification in rice, characterizing antioxidant compounds in food and a company collaboration are featured this week. Incognito Too Many C18s... Events and Staff Application Notes

Alasdair Matheson spoke to Andrew J. Thompson from The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and Anthony Sullivan from Thermo Fisher Scientific about the role of proteomics in cancer research.

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DAISOGEL C4-Modified Phases for Protein Purification - Daiso Apps Note

Solvent supplier, Honeywell, has announced a multi-year distribution agreement with Pro-Lab Laboratuar Teknolojileri, to make the company?s high-purity solvents available in Turkey.

Upcoming educational courses for chromatographers.

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Dynamic light scattering is a widely used technique to measure the size of molecules in solution.



EPA Method 8081 - Fast Separation of Chlorinated Pesticides - Phenomenex Apps Note

News from the chromatography world as of December 2009.



Increased Sensitivity, Improved Resolution and Faster Analysis Times for Compendial Methods - Phenomenex apps note

Additional upcoming events in the chromatography community as of December 2009.

Since early discoveries made at the turn of the 20th century, chromatography and mass spectrometry (MS) techniques have become the primary investigational tools found in the analytical laboratory.