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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.

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.

LCGC's coverage of day one at Pittcon 2009 in Chicago.

Good morning and welcome to this, the first day of LCGC's daily coverage of Pittcon 2009 from the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois.

Welcome back to Chicago and Pittcon 2009. It?s likely to be a lot colder here than it was for Pittcon 2008 in New Orleans, but there should be no shortage of interesting sessions to attend this week.

Longtime LCGC contributor Dr. Frantisek Svec will receive the prestigious Dal Nogare Award at Pittcon 2009 in Chicago during a technical session on Monday morning.

Sunday afternoon's plenary lecture at Pittcon 2009 was presented by George M. Whitesides, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University. The lecture was titled "Paper Diagnostics - Using First World Science in Developing Economies."

Pittcon 2009 has brought us back to the windy city, where the technical sessions are sure to be anything but breezy. Sunday afternoon's session titled, "New Stationary Phases for GC and LC," is a prime example of a session that was filled with new information for separation scientists to enjoy.

NextGen Sciences has sold its electrophoresis business to Sigma-Aldrich in exchange for a cash payment and royalty payments on revenues for three years. The deal involves the acquisition of the automated gel casting unit, the a2DEoptimizer and optigels, the range of large format pre-cast gels.

Tecan and GE Healthcare have announced that the two suppliers will be working together to bring increased quality and efficiency to process development.

The new CAMAG TLC–MS Interface is a versatile instrument to extract compounds from a TLC/HPTLC plate and feed them into a mass spectrometer for substance identification or structure elucidation. The device can be connected to any brand of LC-coupled mass spectrometer.

Scientific Glass Technology has introduced the Super Clean Gas filter, which has multiple adsorbents and saturation indicators for purification of helium in GC?MS.