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News from the chromatography world as of September 2009.

Upcoming educational courses for chromatographers.

The angst experienced by chromatographers over the shortage of supply and high prices of acetonitrile can be alleviated in the short term by making shrewd use of the wide selection of columns available.

LECO Corporation (St. Joseph, Michigan) has introduced a series of Separation Science e-Seminars for fall 2009 designed to give scientists information on several new chromatographic techniques.

Analysis of Complex Pharmaceutical Mixtures - Bruker Daltonics Apps Note

Joining us for this discussion are Jeremy Bierman of Phenomenex; Larry Taylor of Virginia Tech; Linda Lopez of Dionex Corporation; and Tom Hall of FMS.

Agilent Technologies has announced that it will be separating its Life Science and Chemical Analysis Group (LSCA) into two businesses - the Chemical Analysis Group and the Life Sciences Group.

Rapid Separation of Rhodamines - Thermo Apps Note

Neurotransmitters in Whole Blood by LC-MS/MS - Thermo Apps Note

US EPA Method 200.7 ? Water Analysis - Thermo Apps NOte

Toxic elements in drinking water - Thermo Apps Note

N-Linked Glycans of Glycoproteins: A New Column for Improved Resolution - Waters Apps Note

Wear metals analysis according to ASTM D5185 - Thermo Apps Note

Aminoglycoside antibiotics are complex organic molecules produced by streptomyces strains and are extremely important in clinical medicine, due to their efficacy and low cost. The separtation of streptomycin and neomycin requires the use of an ion-pair reagent in the mobile phase, which demands special attention when using ELSD.

Increased Efficiency and Resolution with Kinetex? Core-Shell Technology - Phenomenex Apps Notes

Increased Speed of Analysis and Sample Throughput with Kinetex? Core-Shell Technology - Phenomenex Apps Note

High Temperature Pharmaceutical Analysis using Sub-2µm ZirChrom-PBD - Zirchrom Apps Note

Thermo Fisher Scientific (San Jose, California) announced that it will be hosting a series of seminars that demonstrate the company?s expertise in food safety.

Metrohm UK has announced that on 14 September it will be moving its UK headquarters to new purpose built facilities in Runcorn, Cheshire, UK.

Agilent Technologies has announced that it will be expanding its commitment to open systems for chromatography data systems through collaboration with Persistent Systems.

According to a report in the Daily Progress, a Charlottesville, Virginia newspaper, Biotage Inc. will be moving its U.S. headquarters from its University of Virginia Research Park facility in Charlottesville to a 15,000-square-foot facility near Charlotte, North Carolina.

PerkinElmer, Inc. (Shelton, Connecticut) has signed an expanded distribution agreement with VWR International, LLC (West Chester, Pennsylvania), a global laboratory supply and distribution company.

Pervasive PFCs: An SPE-LC–MS Method for Their Determination in Water and Wastewater Norbert Helle, Meike Baden and Kaj Petersen High-temperature Gradient Adsorption Liquid Chromatography - A Novel Way of Separation for Polyolefins T. Macko, R. Brüll, Y. Wang and Y. Thomann Fuel for Thought A summary of the latest developments on petroleum analysis and the search for alternative fuels News Incognito Are You Optimizing Your Solid-Phase Extraction? Q&A John Lough from the University of Sunderland talks about his tenure as president of The Chromatographic Society Events

The introduction of the new Kinetex core-shell technology provides a significant benefit to all separation scientists looking to increase sample throughput by reducing chromatographic analysis times while maintaining chromatographic resolution. This is especially important for QC labs, which typically have limited resources and can benefit the most from faster separations and higher sample throughput, allowing them to make the best use of their limited resources. However, the benefits derived from faster separations are equally important to discovery and method development departments as well.

Tosoh Bioscience offers media and prepacked columns for all common modes of liquid chromatography; from TSK-GEL HPLC columns to TOYOPEARL resins for Biopurification and the semi-micro GPC instrument EcoSEC.

LC?GC Europe is pleased to announce that following the success of the North American E-Application Note Alert, it will be producing a European E-Application Note Alert.

With an IC instrumentation market forecast to grow more than 7% by 2012, ion chromatography is a thriving segment of the separation science industry. And with application in the areas of environmental, pharmaceutical, and agricultural research, this technique will find continued utility for years to come.