Thermo Fisher Scientific has reported that its revenues increased 1% to a record $2.65 billion in the fourth quarter of 2008, compared with $2.62 billion the previous year. For the whole year revenues grew 8% to a record $10.5 billion compared with $9.75 billion previously.
EcoSEC - the new semi-micro GPC/SEC system for high throughput polymer analysis - goes on tour. PSS and Tosoh Bioscience cordially invite to join the road show to learn more about modern GPC/SEC solutions.
Waters has announced the acquisition of Thar Instruments for an undisclosed amount. "By combining Thar's advanced supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) instrumentation with our chromatography expertise, we are committed to bringing the benefits of SFC to more laboratories for analytical and purification applications worldwide," said Rohit Khannna, vice president, worldwide marketing for Waters Division.
Varian, Inc. has published an application note entitled SEC Analysis of Xanthan. A sample of xanthan was analyzed using PL aquagel-OH columns, which were employed to avoid on-column shear degradation.
Joining us for this discussion are Tom Ricci of Ricci Communications; Mary Ellen Goffredo of Waters Corporation; Kaj Petersen of GERSTEL; and John Waraska of ESA Biosciences.
The answer to the following question was provided by LCGC's "MS - The Practical Art" columnist Michael Balogh.
PerkinElmer has reported its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2008. Revenue from continuing operations was $495.0 million, an increase of 3% versus the fourth quarter 2007.
FMS introduces the first and only "Total Solution" Sample Prep system available that combines three sample prep processes into one economical package. The Total-Rapid-Prep performs the extraction, sample clean-up and evaporation for six samples simultaneously in less than a few hours, producing the highest recoveries and best results for all analytes.
Many businesses have recently adopted the federal government guidelines for drug testing of employees. It is common for initial testing to be performed by test strips for fast screening. Positive results are then confirmed by GC-MS. The goal of this application is to show the anticipated chromatographic responses expected when similar conditions are applied to Zebron columns.
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Agilent Technologies has renamed Velocity11 as Agilent Automation Solutions. Agilent acquired Velocity11 in late 2007 and continues its focus on automating laboratory processes by introducing the Direct Drive Robot and VWorks Automation Control Software.
Agilent Technologies Inc. (Palo Alto, California) and Healex Systems Ltd.(Wilmington, Delaware) announced that Agilent now fully supports Healex's ChemLaunch remote instrument access and control module for Agilent's ChemStation chromatography software.
A team of scientists from Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Abraxis, Inc. compared the a new triclosan test, called "magnetic particle enzyme immunoassay," to the more traditional method-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). They hope that this test, which detects triclosan at a concentration of 20 parts per trillion (ppt)-the equivalent of 1 ounce in 31 million tons, can expedite environmental monitoring of this widely used antibacterial agent in rivers, wells, and other bodies of water.
The Pittsburgh Conference announced a recent co-operative venture with the Professionals' Net Work in Advanced Instrumentation Society (PAI-NET).
A research group from the Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry (Brno, Czech Republic) and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (Trebon, Czech Republic) combined solid-phase exraction (SPE) and supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) using an SPE cartridge incorporated in an SFE cell to extract benzoic acid and cinnamic acid derivatives from microalgae and cyanobacteria samples.
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China) developed a method for analyzing human thrombin using affinity probe capillary electrophoresis (CE) with laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) detection.
Researchers from Germany, Belgium, the UK, and Australia conducted a study of urine from patients with and without coronary artery disease to look for proteome patterns indicative of the disease.
Agilent Technologies Inc., (Palo Alto, California) announced a low thermal mass (LTM) system for rapid heating and cooling of its 7890A gas chromatograph (GC), which will greatly increase productivity by significantly reducing analytical cycle times.
The current acetonitrile shortage is an important factor in pushing analysts in the pharmaceutical, food, environmental, and chemical industries toward considering the use of ultrahigh?pressure liquid chromatography (UHPLC) as a means to save solvent.
A study conducted by Universite de Montreal (Montreal, Canada) researchers on downstream and upstream water from the Montreal wastewater treatment plant has revealed the presence of chemotherapy products and certain hypertension and cholesterol medications.
The American Filtration and Separations Society will be holding its 22nd Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition on May 4-7, 2009, at the Sheraton Hotel in Bloomington, Minnesota.
Xanthans are high molecular weight polymers that have the ability to raise the viscosity of water dramatically. This is exploited in oil recovery processes, where xanthan acts as a water thickener.
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China) and the University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei, China) used a two- and three-phase hollow-fiber liquid-phase microextraction method to determine aromatic amines in environmental water samples.
In a study, presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) annual meeting, researchers unveiled findings that show distinct differences in protein detection between IVF and spontaneous pregnancies in the first half of gestation.
Researchers from Universita ?La Sapienza? (Rome, Italy) used a matrix solid-phase dispersion technique with hot water as the extracting solvent to extract seven quinolone antibacterial agents from egg samples.
Researchers from the Bio-Molecular Innovation Team of LGC (UK) used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and Agilent?s DNA 1000 chip and model 2100 capillary electrophoresis (CE) system to analyze raspberry and strawberry DNA.
Many businesses have recently adopted the federal government guidelines for drug testing of employees created by NIDA (The National Institute on Drug Abuse) and SAMSHA (The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) as a result of federal legislation or drug related accidents and deteriorating work performance.
Waters Corporation (Milford, Massachusetts) has acquired Thar Instruments (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), a supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) manufacturer.
Researchers from Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada) developed porous polymer capillary columns with varied flurous content for chromatography of tagged analytes.
There are a host of volatile organic compounds (VOC) in sea salt that originate from several sources such as the surrounding plants, algae, bacteria and environmental pollution. A team of scientists from the University of Aveiro, one region where sea salt is produced, reasoned that the combination of VOC from the different local sources could be sufficient to create a unique fingerprint of the salt.
