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Advanced Materials Technology (Wilmington, Delaware), a manufacturer and developer of columns for HPLC, and the Berlin-based Capsulution NanoScience AG signed a license contract for the use of the LBL? Technology in June.

Researchers at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (St-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada) and McGill University (Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada) used headspace solid-phase microextraction (SPME) in conjunction with gas chromatography?mass spectrometry (GC?MS) to measure flavor compounds in commercial cheddar cheese and enzyme-modified cheddar cheese.

Researchers at the Wake Forest Center for Botanical Lipids, in Winston Salem, North Carolina have discovered undesirable levels of unhealthy omega-6 fatty acids instead of omega-3 fatty acids in tilapia using a GC method.

A research group at the University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway) developed a method for electromembrane extraction of eight peptides from an aqueous acidic solution using a thin supported liquid membrane in a porous hollow fiber.

Wyatt Technology (Santa Barbara, California) has announced that it will be hosting a field flow fractionation-multiangle light scattering (FFF-MALS) meeting on October 22, 2008, at the Bacara Resort and Spa in Santa Barbara.

Verdure Technologies, Inc., an Idaho based biotech green technologies company, moved into its new research and development facility in Pocatello Idaho.

Horizon Technology (Salem, New Hampshire), a manufacturer of automated sample preparation equipment, has announced that it has partnered with the Water Environment Federation and the International Water Association to promote World Water Monitoring Day (WWMD) 2008.

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.

JEOL USA (Peabody, Massachusetts) has received an award for excellence in customer satisfaction as judged by its customers.

The University of Technology (St. Andrew, Jamaica) has received a multi-million dollar donation of lab equipment from Johnson & Johnson (Canada).

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).

Researchers from Fourth Military Medical University (Shanxi, China) have developed a method for separating and determining hydrophobic compounds in Cnidium monnieri, an herbal remedy.

A GC-MS procedure has been developed, optimized, and applied to characterization of oil binders in paintings.

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).

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.

Polymer Laboratories, now a part of Varian, Inc. has published an application note entitled Efficient Analysis of Biodiesel by HPLC and ELSD.

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.

Supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) is gaining wide acceptance in the pharmaceutical industry in support of drug discovery and medicinal chemistry compound separation and purification.

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.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (San Jose, California), has been presented with two 2008 Frost & Sullivan Best Practices awards for Market Leadership and Competitive Strategy Leadership in Informatics.

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.