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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.

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.

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

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Pickering Laboratories, Inc. (Mountain View, California) announced that it will be distributing a gel-permeation chromatography (GPC) instrument from LCTech GmbH (Dorfen, Germany) when it is released in the second quarter of 2009.

Researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) prepared a micro solid-phase extraction (SPE) device consisting of carbon nanotubes packed in the needle of a syringe.

Agilent Technologies and Markes International have formed a strategic alliance for the global distribution and market development of analytical thermal desorption (TD) instruments used with gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) systems.

Waters Corp. (Milford, Massachusetts) and LabVantage Solutions, Inc. (Bridgewater, New Jersey) announced a strategic partnership with the intention of integrating laboratory software for improved efficiency and effectiveness at laboratory-dependent organizations.

Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, California) and Markes International (Llantrisant, UK) have announced a strategic alliance for global distribution and market development of analytical thermal desorption instruments for gas chromatography.

Scientists from UCLA (Los Angeles, California) used gel electrophoresis followed by liquid chromatography?mass spectrometry (LC?MS) to analyze proteins extracted from lung cancer cells that had been incubated for 24 h with a green tea extract.

Upcoming educational events in the chromatography field.

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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.