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Quantum Analytics (Foster City, California) and LEAP Technologies (Carrboro, North Carolina) have announced a co-marketing partnership to offer efficiency improving chromatography and mass spectrometer systems, including new developments in front-end automation.

Scientists at the National Police Scientific Institute in Ecully, France have been analyzing solvents trapped within crystals of cocaine hydrochloride with a static headspace-gas chromatography method. This method helps them ascertain the drug's country of origion, which can help determine the distribution chain.

Pittsburgh Conference (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) organizers have announced a call for topic input for conferee networking sessions at Pittcon 2009, which is scheduled to be held March 8-13 at McCormick Place South in Chicago, Illinois.

Researchers from the University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) analyzed heterocyclic amines in meat samples using pressurized liquid extraction followed by liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry detection (LC?MS-MS).

HPLC Company Folds

Nanostream, Inc. (Pasadena, California), a developer of microfluidics-based parallel HPLC technology and a provider of assay development has closed all business operations.

FEI Co. ( Hillsboro, Oregon), a manufacturer of high-resolution imaging and analysis technology, has signed Shimadzu Corp (Kyoto, Japan), a leading provider of analytical instrumentation, as its sales agent in Japan.

Researchers at the University of Utah's (Salt Lake City) Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory developed a test for testosterone and epitestosterone in urine that uses liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry detection (LC-MS-MS).

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This month, Chromatography Online's Technology Forum looks at the topic of Sample Prep and the trends and issues surrounding it. Joining us for this discussion is Dennis D. Blevins, Ph.D., of Agilent Technologies, Inc., Elena Gairloch of Biotage, and Jeffrey Zonderman of Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Wyatt Technology has published an application note on branching in high molar mass synthetic amyloses. Amylose is an occasionally-branched biopolymer and, together with amylopectin, the hyper-branched component, a constituent of starch. Determination of branching in amylopectin on the basis of amyloses may be performed with the help of synthetic amyloses. Synthetic amyloses from enzymatic (phosphorolytic) reaction were checked for their linearity.

Polymer Standards Service-USA Inc., has published an Application Note #10271 on GPC/SEC analysis of Gelatin. A PSS SECcurity GPC System with refractive index detector was used in this analysis.

LCGC North America, the leading information provider and most trusted source among chromatographers, has announced PharmSep, a Premiere Symposium for Separation Scientists in Pharmaceuticals.

Ameritox, Ltd. (Midland, Texas), a U.S. leader in pain prescription urine drug monitoring, announced its addition of an LC-MS-MS method for detecting prescription pain medications.

Automation of Vitamin D Analysis to Provide Higher Throughput Jacqueline Rippington Mixed-Mode Solid-Phase Extraction of Basic Drugs from Biological Fluid Matthew Cleeve Enhancing GC-MS Analysis of Trace Compounds using a Dynamic Approach to Reducing Background Interference Damien Rosser, Gareth Roberts and Liz Woolfenden LC-MS-MS Analysis of Antibiotics in Wastewater Eleni Botitsi, Charalmapia Frosyni, Emmanuel Dasenakis, Despina Tsipi and Dipankar Ghosh News All the news from July 2008 Market trends & analysis Glenn Cudiamat provides a report on India with a specific look at the growth of the analytical instrumentation market. Incognito: Rapidly Becoming Confused! Incognito assesses the choice between superficially porous silica and sub 2 micron stationary HPLC phases. Q&A: SFC - The Innovative Approach The Column spoke to Jeffrey Kiplinger from Averica Drug Discovery about the benefits of using SFC as a purification tool in drug discovery.

The Unsweet Smell of Success Professor Ling from the National Tsiang Hua University in Taiwan talks about the use of chromatography to monitor air quality. Hyphenated Techniques in Ion Chromatography Andrea Willw, Stefanie Czyborra and Alfred Steinbach Tips & Tricks: GPC/SEC Daniela Held News All the news from August 2007 Time to Rethink Outsourcing? Is outsourcing R&D the future for science, Zosimus wonders. Market Trends & Analysis Glenn Cudiamat reports on the latest developments in single-cell whole genome amplification PCR.

Ronald E. Majors, a senior chemist at Agilent and LCGC's "Column Watch" and "Sample Preperation Perspectives" columnist, received the Chromatographic Society's 2007 Martin Gold Medal at HPLC 2008.

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Planar chromatography celebrates its 70th birthday. The technique dates back to 1938 when, at the Pharmaceutical Institute in Kharkov, Ukraine, N.A. Izmailov and M.S. Shraiber first devized a circular thin-layer chromatogram,1 which was called spread layer or spot chromatography at the time.

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This article describes the development of a method for the determination of sulphonamide antibiotics at trace levels in effluent wastewaters by LC?MS?MS to determine its capability for the detection of pharmaceutical compounds before they reach the aquatic environment.

RVM Scientific (Santa Barbara,California), a manufacturer of direct heating/cooling systems for laboratory instruments, has been acquired by Agilent Technologies (Palo Alto, California).

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Sketches of Spain

Research Group: Professor Maria Celia Garcia-Ãlvarez-Coque, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.

The Pittsburgh Conference announced the launch of its 2009 website, www.pittcon.org, containing relevant information for conferees and exhibitors about Pittcon 2009, which will be in Chicago, Illinois, McCormick Place, March 8–13, 2009.