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Researchers from Hebei University and Baoding University (both in Baoding, China) used water-compatible molecularly imprinted polymers as a sorbent for solid-phase extraction (SPE) of nine quinolones from urine samples.

Chinese scientists from the Department of Chemistry at Fudan University (Shanghai, China) have developed a rapid method for the detection and analysis of short-chain amines in streams and rivers using a portable GC.

Waters Corporation (Milford, Massachusetts) debuted an online community for users of the company?s ACQUITY UltraPerformance LC system.

PerkinElmer (Waltham, Massachusetts) and Labtronics (Guelph, Ontario, Canada) announced a partnership to enable the use of Labtronics? LimsLink and Limslink Express software with PerkinElmer?s LABWORKS laboratory information management system (LIMS).

Researchers have implemented new testing procedures to more effectively evaluate gas chromatography (GC) column inertness performance.

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The "omics" era of bioresearch- genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, glycomics- was ushered in with the start of the Human Genome Project, and progress in these new disciplines was reported annually by scientific leaders at Pittcon.

Upcoming education courses in the chromatography field.

Eight years of successful partnership with the pharma industry has resulted in a specialist pharmaceutical division being created by Sodexo. As a food and facilities management services provider the company has seen growth in food, general services and technical support...

Following the tragic infant deaths in China from contaminated milk and milk products the FDA has developed a method for detecting melamine and cyanuric acid. This includes the chromatography column SeQuant Zic-HILIC from Merck...

Following the tragic infant deaths in China from contaminated milk and milk products the FDA has developed a method for detecting melamine and cyanuric acid. This includes the chromatography column SeQuant Zic-HILIC from Merck...

We spoke to Jeffrey Kiplinger from Averica Drug Discovery about the benefits of using SFC as a purification tool in drug discovery.

This article describes three innovative approaches for the analysis of protein-based pharmaceuticals, and their role in the overall QC process at Genentech.

The votes of almost 4500 scientists worldwide have secured GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, the Life Science Industry Award 2008 in the "protein purification and separation products" category...

The 47th Eastern Analytical Symposium and Exposition presented its award for Outstanding Achievements in Separation Science to Professor Pat J. Sandra, of Ghent University, Belgium, on November 18, 2008.

Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, Massachusetts) announced its collaboration with the Molecular Therapeutics Research Group at the School of Pharmacy, Queen?s University Belfast to analyze peptides in amphibian venom.

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland) have developed an approach for electronic noses that comprises 16 microheater elements and eight types of sensors.

Tecan Group (Männedorf, Switzerland), a supplier of advanced automation and detection systems for life science laboratories, has opened its new Asia Pacific region headquarters in Shanghai, China.

Waters Corporation (Milford, Massachusetts) has donated a Synapt mass spectrometry system to the Fondation du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada).

MIP Technologies AB (Lund, Sweden) has announced that it has received funding for a four-year project, including funding for a three-year Ph.D. position.

Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, California) and BioTrove (Woburn, Massachusetts) have signed a nonexclusive value-added reseller agreement that enables BioTrove to provide instrumentation for mass spectrometry?based drug discovery.

Spartan Bioscience Announces Agreement with NorDiag ASA

Malvern Instruments (Southborough, Massachusetts) announced its participation in the OPC Analyzer Device Integration Working Group.

Dionex (Sunnyvale, California) has agreed to purchase Caliper Life Sciences? (Hopkinton, Massachusetts) AutoTrace solid-phase extraction (SPE) products, including the AutoTrace SPE workstation, which is designed to automate the extraction of large-volume aqueous samples before analysis.

Dutch supplier of system solutions using HPLC with electrochemical detection, Antec Leyden has opened Antec USA as a consequence of continuously increasing businesses in the US. This accounts for a significant share of total sales and the company decided to set up its subsidiary in Hanover, Maryland.

The new on-line community from Waters to support Acquity UPLC chromatographers has attracted 1200 members in its first month.

Recent advances in polymer chemistry have led to the development of novel materials with both controlled functionality and structure resulting in unusual rheological properties. Examples include the many di- and triblock copolymer architectures and dendritic systems. These materials often include regions of different polarity and hydrophobicity and therefore represent a challenge to the analytical chemist. This application note illustrates the analysis of a star-branched polyethylene glycol with a significant hydrophobic component by aqueous SEC.