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After a brief illness, noted chromatographer Clarence S. "Bucky" Wentzel passed away Friday, February 20, 2009, at the age of 66.

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Pickering Laboratories, Inc. (Mountain View, California) announced that it will be distributing a gel-permeation chromatography (GPC) instrument from LCTech GmbH (Dorfen, Germany) when it is released in the second quarter of 2009.

Researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) prepared a micro solid-phase extraction (SPE) device consisting of carbon nanotubes packed in the needle of a syringe.

Agilent Technologies and Markes International have formed a strategic alliance for the global distribution and market development of analytical thermal desorption (TD) instruments used with gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) systems.

Waters Corp. (Milford, Massachusetts) and LabVantage Solutions, Inc. (Bridgewater, New Jersey) announced a strategic partnership with the intention of integrating laboratory software for improved efficiency and effectiveness at laboratory-dependent organizations.

Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, California) and Markes International (Llantrisant, UK) have announced a strategic alliance for global distribution and market development of analytical thermal desorption instruments for gas chromatography.

Scientists from UCLA (Los Angeles, California) used gel electrophoresis followed by liquid chromatography?mass spectrometry (LC?MS) to analyze proteins extracted from lung cancer cells that had been incubated for 24 h with a green tea extract.

Upcoming educational events in the chromatography field.

With the increasing need for protein analysis in pharmaceutical development and quality control, higher sensitivity, as well as better methods for characterization of therapeutic proteins, are required.

Upcoming events in the chromatography field.

Drug companies typically require bulk amounts of material for standards, intermediates, and final active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) as development moves into toxicology and preclinical stages.

Agilent Technologies and Aurora SFC Systems announced that Agilent is providing technical support for the development of the Aurora SFC Fusion A5TM, an analytical instrument that converts existing high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) systems into supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) systems.

Novozymes Biopharma has signed a licence agreement with GE Healthcare Life Sciences that will enable the company to produce and deliver native, animal-free protein A using GE Healthcare technology.

The people for ethical treatment of animals (PETA) have got hold of a towel used by George Clooney and are talking about analysing the sample of the actor's sweat to created flavoured tofu.

Streptomycin and neomycin are members of the family of antibiotics called aminoglycosides. Aminoglycoside antibiotics are complex organic molecules produced by streptomyces strains and are extremely important in clinical medicine, due to their efficacy and low cost.

Do you have experience with gas chromatographs and mass spectrometers, particularly in the identification and analysis of VOCs? Are you knowledgeable in the human odour spectrum and its chemical components? Have you got a laboratory with GC–MS capability?

LCGC's coverage of Pittcon 2009, day three, from Chicago.

On Wednesday afternoon, March 11, 2009, the 2009 Coblentz Society's Williams-Wright Award will be presented to Spectroscopy contributing editor Jerome Workman, Jr. for his work on molecular spectroscopy, including near-infrared, infrared, UV-vis, process analysis, and chemometrics.

The 2008 Analytical Chemistry Award for Young Investigators in Separation Science will be presented to Nelson Torto at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 11 in Room S401A of McCormick Place.

A poster session focusing on gas chromatography (GC) and the environment was held on Tuesday afternoon of Pittcon 2009 in Chicago.

We build up to Pittcon for months in advance, scheduling appointments, scripting presentations, and choosing the right pair (or pairs) of shoes ? and then before you know it, here we are at the end of the week.

LCGC's coverage of Pittcon 2009, day two, from Chicago.

Arranged and presided over by Imre Molnar of the Molnar-Institute for Applied Chromatography, Monday afternoon's "The Future of HPLC-Method Development: Quality by Design - Evaluating the Control Space of Robust HPLC Methods" focused on the role of method robustness and quality by design in maintaining the high quality of pharmaceutical and chemical products that are distributed worldwide.

The staff of LCGC handed out two awards on Monday afternoon during a press conference on the second day of Pittcon 2009 in Chicago.

This Monday morning session was arranged by Michael E. Swartz, of Synomics Pharmaceutical Services (Wareham, Massachusetts). Unfortunately, Swartz was unable to preside over the session or deliver a presentation as planned due to a cancelled flight to Chicago. Ken Fountain of Waters Corporation (Milford, Massachusetts) filled in ably for Swartz in presiding over the session.

There is always a lot of buzz about environmental issues, ways to test for toxins, and other safety measures at Pittcon. With that in mind, Monday morning's Session 410 titled, "Environmental Analysis with GC and GC-MS," was both informative and refreshing.

When John Hinshaw recommended Session 800, "LC-MS and GC-MS Analysis in Complex Matrices," a glance at the lineup told me this would be a "scientist's" session; one filled with hard science from university laboratories and private facilities around the world.