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Evogen and LGC have signed a worldwide licence agreement, which will allow Evogen to augment its rapid molecular diagnostics and detection platform with LGC?s HyBeacons PCR probe chemistry technology.

Restek has announced the opening of a new branch office in Japan. According to the company, Restek Japan is an integral part of the company?s growth in Asia and will strengthen its position as a supplier of LC and GC chromatography columns and accessories, analytical reference standards and sample preparation products in Japan.

This training course provides theory lectures and practical sessions for modern analysis of macromolecules using gel permeation chromatography (GPC), also known as size exclusion chromatography (SEC).

The answer to the following reader question about degassing mobile phase solvents was supplied by LCGC Europe?s ?LC Troubleshooting? columnist John Dolan.

Joining us for this discussion are Diab Elmashni and Eric Phillips of Thermo Fisher Scientific; Michael McGinley of Phenomenex; and Doug Later of Torion.

The financial reports for Agilent Technologies' first quarter of 2009 have identified trends in the demand for product platforms.

Pittcon celebrates 60 years of service to the scientific community and remains an unmissable event in the analytical chemistry calendar.

Agilent Technologies and the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway, announced the opening of a biological mass spectrometry facility on the NUI Galway campus. The facility features Agilent?s latest quadrupole time-of-flight (Q?TOF) and triple quadrupole (QQQ) mass spectrometer platforms.

Shimadzu - LINEX (Automatic Liner Exchange) New Capping/Decapping station with Optic 3 injector The Optic 3 injector is a versatile tool for the Shimadzu GC and GCMS product range. It can be operated with split, splitless, on-column/AT-Column, LINEX–TD (Thermodesorption), LINEX–DMI (Difficult Matrix Introduction) and large volume injections.

Millipore has announced that it will be acquiring Guava Technologies. The agreement, which is expected to close in the next two weeks, will see Millipore pay around $22.6 million. This follows the distribution and co-development partnership that the two companies announced in March 2008.

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The current global shortage of acetonitrile has made a significant impact on the productivity and cost of most high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) applications.

Pittcon 2009 will celebrate its 60th anniversary of showcasing the most advanced instrumentation and technologies and presenting the latest advances in scientific research.

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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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