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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.

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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.

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.

News All the news from March 2005 Opinion This month Zosimus looks at all the chromatography-related conferences and asks if there are just a few too many. Market trends & analysis Glenn Cudiamat examines the growing demand of SPE in Europe, Japan and Asia Pacific. Country focus The spotlight's on Belgium and The Netherlands in this issue with a round-up of what's happening there. Q&A Jody Clark from Selerity Technologies answers questions on supercritical fluid technology and temperature programming in HPLC.

A simple capillary zone electrophoresis method is discussed for the simultaneous analysis of omeprazole and lansoprazole. The aim is to provide an efficient assay for the quality control of both pharmaceuticals.

Science center awarded $25,000 grant

The best approach is to document everything for each hardware configuration as a separate method and then qualify and validate them for each sample or category of sample.