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A company's environmental management system, canine training, protein analysis to answer evolutionary questions and a community award are in the news this month.

The Optic 3 injector is a versatile tool for the Shimadzu GC and GC–MS product range. It features no discrimination and low thermal degradation of the sample.

The official opening session and Plenary Lecture featured a talk from Jerald L. Schnoor, of the University of Iowa, entitled, ?Biofuels and Global Climate Change.? This topic was especially fitting for the June conference as gas prices and temperatures are on the rise once again this summer.

After a day filled with registration and short courses, Willard W. Harrison kicked off a series of three lectures with his tutorial lecture on Sunday night at the 57th ASMS Conference held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A simple and generic strategy from Waters for metabolite identification studies that uses ACQUITY UPLC and a new, highly-sensitive hybrid quadrupole oa-TOF benchtop mass spectrometer: the Xevo QTOF-MS.

Elemental mass spectrometry mainly targets inorganic materials, determining elemental compositions of samples rather than providing structural information. This session will cover topics such as bioimaging of metals in brain tissue, the analysis of chemical warfare agent degradation products, and the separation and quantitation of antisense oligonucleotides.

Good morning, and welcome to this, the opening day of LCGC?s and Spectroscopy?s ASMS E-Show Dailies from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For the next three days, we will be covering all that is new and exciting at ASMS this year, from technical sessions to plenary lectures to the social networking that is a big part of any conference.

GPC is used to easily and reliably analyze the molecular mass distribution of industrially produced polyacrylnitrile in this application note. Polyacrylnitrile (PAN) is an important component of many industrial products including heavy-duty fibres, synthetic ropes, flame resistant plastics, and the versatile impact resistant ABS plastics. PAN is also commonly used to produce fabric for clothing manufacture since its addition creates a material that is warming, soft and crease-resistant. This application demonstrates a separation based on molecular size using GPC with organic eluents, along with a simple sample preparation procedure. Since this GPC application uses DMF and a small amount of lithium bromide as mobile phase, it will work on a standard HPLC system without any modifications.

The authors demonstrate the capacity to separate petroleum-derived molecules having the same nominal mass in the mobility dimension using IM-MS spectrometry.

In an effort to reduce the number of potential drugs that fail during clinical development, drug companies are increasingly looking to human microdosing.

Joining us for this discussion are Dr. Peter Hoedl of PerkinElmer EcoAnalytix; Daniela Cavagnino from Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.; Sky Countryman of Phenomenex; and Mark Taylor and Rick Koeritz of Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc.

MRM Quantification of Chitotriosidase in Human Plasma-Waters Application Note

Frost & Sullivan is pleased to present the 2009 Company of the Year Award in the drug discovery technologies market to Life Technologies. According to Frost & Sullivan, the company's size, product portfolio breadth, market segment leadership, and strong future potential set it apart from any competitor in the life science research tools industry.

Bruker Daltonics has announced an exclusive distribution agreement with Francisco Soria Melguizo at the 19th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease. Francisco Soria Melguizo will distribute Bruker Daltonics' matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) Biotyper to laboratories in clinical microbiology and veterinary medicine in Spain.

High-Throughput Analysis of Metabolic Stability Incubations-Thermo Application Note

Absolute Quantitation of Targeted Endogenous Salivary Peptides-Thermo Application Note

Light scattering is one of the few absolute methods for the characterization of macromolecules and biopolymers. On-line light-scattering detectors are used in GPC/SEC systems to measure molar masses, the radius of gyration and to identify high molar mass content at low concentrations. There are several detectors available that differ in the provided light-scattering technique. It is necessary to select the correct technology for a specific application and to do this users need to know the basic principles.

The precise quantitation of protein expression levels can provide crucial insights into physiological processes in both healthy and diseased organisms. Protein dynamics ? changes in proteins over time ? characterize normal processes such as growth and development, and pathologic processes such as the development and progression of cancer. Protein dynamics can provide biomarkers for physiologic responses to pharmacotherapy.

Upcoming events in the chromatography community as of May 2009.

Featured products from leading chromatography companies.

The goal of this work is to investigate the differences in separation performance between fully and superficially porous particle columns for routine analysis of basic pharmaceutical drug compounds. Major parameters of comparison are chemical stability, peak capacity and column efficiency at different mass loads.

Novasep welcomes Antoine Baule as president of its subsidiary company, Novasep Process. He replaces Erwin Herren who has been the company?s interim president since January 2008.

PerkinElmer has acquired mass spectrometry equipment supplier Analytica of Branford. The acquisition, the terms of which were not disclosed, is an integral part of PerkinElmer's strategic commitment to continue to grow its human and environmental health portfolio.

PerkinElmer announced that its board of directors has appointed the company's president and chief executive officer, Robert F. Friel, to the additional role of chairman of the board of directors.

SGS United Kingdom in Aberdeen has become one of the first independent UK-based laboratories to gain United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) accreditation to perform refinery gas analysis (RGA) by DIN51666 to ISO 17025:2005.

Varian, Inc. has published an application note entitled Enhanced ELSD Sensitivity of Parabens using Sub-Ambient Evaporation. This note shows that the Varian ELSD surpasses other ELSDs for low temperature HPLC applications with semi-volatile compounds.

Tosoh Bioscience publishes an application note on vitamin analysis with the new, amino-type TSK–GEL HILIC column that was recently launched. It shows high stability and is well suited for all separations requiring amino functional groups. More information on www.tskgel.com