
Analytical Sales and Services, Inc. For more information, visit the company's website at www.analytical-sales.com.

Analytical Sales and Services, Inc. For more information, visit the company's website at www.analytical-sales.com.

Alcott Chromatography, Inc. For more information, visit the company's website at www.alcottchromatography.com.

Waters Corporation. For more information, visit the company's website at www.waters.com.

Polymer Laboratories, Ltd. For more information, visit the company's website at www.polymerlabs.com.

Dionex Corporation. For more information, visit the company's website at www.dionex.com.

Spark Holland B.V. For more information, visit the company's website at www.spark.nl.

Alltech Associates, Inc. For more information, visit the company's website at www.alltechWEB.com.

Biochrom Ltd. For more information, visit the company's website at www.biochrom.co.uk.

BIONISIS. For more information, visit the company's website at www.bionisis.com.

Hamilton Company. For more information, visit the company's website at www.hamiltoncompany.com.

Advanced Chemistry Development. For more information, visit the company's website at www.acdlabs.com.

Hitachi High Technologies America. For more information, visit the company's website at www.hitachi-hta/lshome.com.

Kin-Tek Laboratories, Inc. For more information, visit the company's website at www.kin-tek.com.

Gilson, Inc. For more information, visit the company's website at www.gilson.com.

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. For more information, visit the company's website at www.shimadzu.com.

News All the news from May 2005 Opinion Zosimus sparks a debate on the significance of scientific journals in out contemporary world of communications as a means of providing information. Market trends & analysis Glenn Cudiamat analyses the demand for CE-MS across various laboratory application fields. Country focus This month we turn our attention to Switzerland and monitor the growth of some companies whose foundations lie there. Q&A Rene Trost from Dionex Corporation speaks about the latest developments for ion chromatography, nano and capillary applications within the company.

ESA Biosciences, Inc. (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) announced that it has been awarded a "Roadmap Initiative" grant from the National Institutes of Health to accelerate ESA's ongoing work in metabolomics research. Under this grant, ESA will extend and integrate electrochemical and MS technologies to facilitate a range of metabolomics studies.

The authors describe how this free downloadable software calculates and displays CZE separations after the user has entered sample and operations parameters. The underlying principles and mathematical basis are explained.



Mike Szelewski and Bruce Quimby, Agilent Technologies, Inc.

Andy Wells, Thermo Electron Corporation

Barry Burger and Gary Stidsen, Restek Corporation



News All the news from April 2005 Opinion In this issue, Zosimus considers whether scientific research is being tainted by the lure of commercialization. Market trends & analysis Glenn Cudiamat demonstrates the significance of information-rich technologies to the preclinical market and highlights the increase in the use of transgenic animals for research. Country focus News on events, training and research from around the UK and Ireland is the focus this month. Q&A John Morawski and Mark Baynham from Waters Corporation answer questions on UPLC — a high-pressure, low particle size chromatography technique.

Short Courses

A thorough consideration of 30 nominated instruments by 21 nominating editors resulted in a clear runaway for the top product at this year's Pittcon. The gold award was presented to JEOL (Peabody, Massachusetts) for its DART ionization technology for MS.

Calendar

This month’s column provides an overview of several recently developed technologies that aim to improve the utility and performance of mass spectrometers in a number of applications.