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New research led by David Valentine of University of California at Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA), Chris Reddy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) (Woodshole, MA), George Wardlaw, a graduate student in the Marine Science program at UCSB, and three other co-authors from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and WHOI details how microbes are dining on thousands of compounds that make up the oil seeping from the sea floor.

Millipore (Billerica, Massachusetts) and Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, California) have formed a collaboration to develop chromatin immunoprecipitation kits for epigenetics research.

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Guangdong, China) used high-speed countercurrent chromatography to purify two benzoxazinoid glucosides from Acanthus ilicifolius L.

Researcher Ingemar S. J. Merkies, MD, (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) and colleagues discovered that patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) benefit from treatment with immune globulin intravenous 10% caprylate/chromatography purified (IGIV-C).

PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences (Waltham, Massachusetts) announced its partnership with the Water Environment Federation's and the International Water Association's World Water Monitoring Day (WWMD), a month-long program that begins on September 18.

Proxeon (Denmark) has announced it has integrated the software for its liquid chromatography platform with Thermo Fisher Scientific?s (San Jose, CA) mass spectrometry data-management system.

Thermo Fisher Scientific (San Jose, CA.) has announced that its Atlas Chromatography Data System now supports Microsoft Windows Vista operating system.

NuGEN (San Carlos, California) and the Hamilton Company (Reno, Nevada) have assembled an automated, total target preparation system for high-throughput processing of clinical samples for global gene expression analysis.

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Chromatide (Runcorn, Cheshire, UK), which develops polymer technologies to improve pharmaceutical and chemical production, and Separation Product's Kromasil, a brand of Akzo Nobel (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), have set up a research collaboration to develop and market improved silica-based high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) media.

Pittcon (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) announced that twelve sessions at Pittcon 2009 at McCormick Place South in Chicago, March 8-13, will be coprogrammed with the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry (ACS-DAC).

The QuEChERS (Quick, Easy, Cheap, Effective, Rugged, and Safe) method was published by Anastassiades and colleagues in 2003. Since then, this method for the extraction and clean-up of pesticide residues from agricultural products, and its many variations, have been gaining in popularity.

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The 9th Csaba Horváth Medal Award Symposium, to be held on April 28?29, 2009 at the Hartford Convention Center (Hartford, Connecticut), announced they are accepting papers for oral and poster presentations on the topics of Advances in Separation Technologies, Multidimensional Separations, UPLC, LC-MS, Biomarkers, and Separation of Enantiomers. The deadline for submission of the abstract is February 15, 2009.

LCGC June 2008 BPA Statement

The 9th Csaba Horváth Medal Award Symposium, to be held on April 28-29, 2009 at the Hartford Convention Center (Hartford, Connecticut), announced they are accepting papers for oral and poster presentations on the topics of Advances in Separation Technologies, Multidimensional Separations, UPLC, LC-MS, Biomarkers, and Separation of Enantiomers.

Researchers from the Universidad de Sevilla (Spain) used gas chromatography-mass spectrometry with headspace sorptive extraction-thermal desorption to analyze volatile compounds in wine vinegars.

The following question and answer appeared in an article by Daniela Held in the June 2008 issue of The Column, LCGC Europe’s e-zine. Why does GPC–SEC require a calibration?

Researchers at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquees (Agadir, Morocco), and Institut Agronomique et Veterinaire Hassan II (Agadir, Morocco) developed a method for screening paraquat and diquat in olive oil samples.

Chromatide (Runcorn, Cheshire, UK), which develops polymer technologies to improve pharmaceutical and chemical production, and Separation Product's Kromasil, a brand of Akzo Nobel (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), have set up a research collaboration to develop and market improved silica-based high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) media.

PerkinElmer, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) announced an arrangement with the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, Texas) that will bring the company's Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization technique to the cancer center.

Researchers from Edificio Anexo Marie Curie (Cordoba, Spain) used coacervates of decanoic acid reverse micelles to extract priority carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in waste and surface water for subsequent analysis by liquid chromatography-fluorimetry.

Pittcon (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) announced that 12 sessions at Pittcon 2009 at McCormick Place South in Chicago, March 8-13, will be coprogrammed with the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry (ACS-DAC).

SACHEM (Austin, Texas) has launched a new HPLC e-Learning program.

Analtech, Inc. (Newark, Delaware), a manufacturer of thin-layer chromatography plates and accessories, plans to launch a new film on September 17.

Thermo Fisher Scientific (San Jose, California) announced that Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) will be using the company's MALDI LTQ Orbitrap XL mass spectrometer for research on virus-host protein interactions in the laboratory of Ileana Cristea.

Scientists from various institutions in Taiwan collaborated on research to develop a derivatization method for preparing carbonyl compounds for analysis by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS).