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Researchers from Central China Normal University (Wuhan, China), Wenzhou Medical College (Wenzhou, China), and East China University of Science and Technology (Shanghai, China) extracted polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) from water and plant samples using solid-phase extraction (SPE) and dispersive liquid?liquid microextraction (DLLME).

"...We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise healthcare's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories...." - President Barack Obama, 44th President of the US, Inaugural address, 20 January 2009, Washington, DC.

Deciding on a zero intercept.

Phenomenex Inc. (Torrance, California) raised raised $5,150 for Cheer for Children, a Redondo Beach based non-profit that raises donations to help acutely ill children and their siblings at County-Harbor UCLA Medical Center and for children with orthopedic disabilities at local schools, through a combination of sporting challenges, raffles, and refreshment sales.

Analysis of Parabens Using the Prep-24 Dual Piston Pump-Hitachi Application Note

Scientists from Lorillard Tobacco Company (Greensboro, North Carolina) developed an improved method for analyzing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in mainstream tobacco smoke.

Researchers from Amgen (Thousand Oaks, California) examined the separation mechanism in the analysis of polar and basic hydrazines using hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) with alcohol rather than acetonitrile as a weak eluent.

Monitoring Protein Modifications of the Biogeneric Protein Interferon-Phenomenex Application Note

Researchers from Zhejiang Province Environmental Monitoring Centre (Zhejiang, China) and Xiangtan University (Hunan, China) developed an ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS-MS) method for analyzing alkylphenols in soil.

Kalorama Information, leading healthcare market research publisher, announced that Liquid chromatography will see significant growth from a new application - food safety testing - after several highly publicized food scandals.

The National Cancer Institute's Center for Cancer Research (Bethesda, Maryland), purchased a Waters ACQUITY UPLC®/Synapt High Definition MS (HDMSTM) and Waters ACQUITY® UPLC/XevoTM TQ MS Systems for its metabolomics research programs.

Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, California) and Aurora SFC Systems (Sunnyvale, California) announced that Agilent is providing technical support for the development of Aurora?s SFC Fusion A5, a new instrument that converts existing high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) systems into supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) systems.

PerkinElmer announced the inauguration of a new centre of excellence (COE) in Singapore, as part of what the company calls its expanding commitment to helping advance drug discovery and life sciences research in Asia. The announcement was made at a special event at the world-renowned A*STAR Biopolis research complex.

The Merck Young Scientist Award 2009 will launch in April. The objectives of the award are to encourage life science and analytical research in Malaysia and promote excellence in the development of local young scientists in the area.

Symyx Technologies has announced the formation of a partnership between the company and Thermo Fisher Scientific. The partnership is expected to focus on meeting scientist's experiment documentation, decision support and laboratory information management system (LIMS) needs.

PerkinElmer and Waters have announced the development of an interface for Waters Empower 2 chromatography software. The interface will allow control of PerkinElmer Clarus gas chromatographs and TurboMatrix headspace samplers on networked installations that are currently using the chromatography software.

PerkinElmer has announced a consultative collaboration with instrument qualification and computer systems validation (CSV) expert, Dr Robert McDowall.

After a brief illness, noted chromatographer Clarence S. ?Bucky? Wentzel passed away Friday, February 20, 2009, at the age of 66.

For the second year in succession Markes International Ltd. (Llantrisant, UK) has been awarded two highly prestigious awards, International Business of the Year, and Company of the Year by the Rhondda Cynon Taf business club.

Reseachers from China Pharmaceutical University (Nanjing, China) used high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with photodiode-array detection and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry to analyze 12 flavonoids in Ginkgo biloba leaves.

Scientists from Peking University Health Science Center (Beijing, China) and the University of Macau (Taipa, Macau, China) used high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with diode-array and mass spectrometry (MS) detection to distinguish between the crude herbs of four species of Herba Cistanche, a Chinese herbal medicine that has been recorded in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia.

Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, California) announced that its Direct Drive Robot was named by the Association for Laboratory Automation as one of the top three outstanding new products at LabAutomation2009.

This article provides an overview of the use of solid-phase microextraction (SPME) in the fish oil industry to monitor oxidation products in marine oils.

Joining us for this discussion are Richard F. Jack of Dionex and Robert S. Johnson of Horizon Technology, Inc.

PerkinElmer (Waltham, Massachusetts) will become a distributor of purge-and-trap automated sample concentration systems from Teledyne Tekmar (Mason, Ohio) under terms of a reseller agreement.

WACKER opened a process development building for the production of pharmaceutical proteins, or biologics, at the company's site in Jena, Germany. The new unit is reported to be capable of shipping double-digit gram quantities of highly pure proteins for pre-clinical development, prior to scale-up in the company's GMP plant.

Shimadzu, one of the world?s leading developers of analytical instrumentation, and Recipe Chemicals :#43; Instruments cooperate with the prominence TOX.I.S. system.

Several common birth control formulations contain both drospirenone and ethinyl estradiol. A highly selective and sensitive analytical method for the analysis of drospirenone in human plasma has been developed for use in bioequivalence studies.