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News All the news from August 2005 Opinion Zosimus considers the current state of chromatography research and suggests a possible link to the lack of methods available in food testing. Market trends & analysis Glenn Cudiamat provides a report on the food and beverage industry with particular reference to the types of analytical instrumentation involved. Country focus This month's focus looks at where chromatography has come in Russia since its discovery by Mikhail Tsvet, its Russian founder. Q&A John Gilbert, Sales Director of JEOL (UK) Ltd, talks to The Column about its AccuTOF-DART system, Gold Award Winner at this year's Pittcon. Supplies & services

The author takes a look at the problem of usually broad peaks and covers some techniques that will help determine the reasons behind them.

Columnist Ron Majors discusses methods that can be used to isolate large amounts of proteins from crude biological samples.

Leslie Ettre looks at the life of industry giants Jim Water and his contributions to the development of HPLC.

The applications of mass spectroscopy to clinical chemistry are discussed with the help of this month's featured scientists.

Here the authors discuss an ion-pair, gradient HPLC method, developed for cycloserine-related substances using a polar, amide-embedded C18 column. Other polar-embedded and polar-edcapped columns are evaluated in equivalence studies.

ESA Biosciences (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) recently announced that R&D Magazine selected the Corona charged aerosol detector for its prestigious 2005 R&D 100 Award.

News All the news from July 2005 Opinion Desperate to purchase some new chromatographic instruments for his research group, Zosimus asks why there aren't any critical reviews out there that can help him with his choice. Market trends & analysis Regular contributor Glenn Cudiamat provides a market profile of ion chromatography. Isocratic separation of Biopolymers Frantisek Svec discusses a new method aimed at facilitating the analysis of biopolymers isocratically in miniaturized column formats. Country focus Italy is the focus this month with a number of research projects to report on including life on Mars. Q&A Uwe Lehmann from SLS Micro Technology answers our questions on miniaturized systems for chromatography.

Applied Biosystems, MDS Sciex, and Dionex Corporation form alliance

Thermo Electron Corporation has recently been presented with two Omega NorthFace ScoreBoard awards for excellence in customer service.

News All the news from June 2005 Opinion This month Zosimus takes another swipe at scientific publishing by asking the question "Does Peer Review Work?" Market trends & analysis Regular contributor Glenn Cudiamat examines the market for thin-layer chromatography. Country focus Scandinavia is the centre of attention for June. Biotech developments, society news and company acquisitions are all on the agenda. Q&A Michael McBrien, from ACD/Labs answers our questions on computer-assisted method-development technologies and how they can make life easier for the research scientist.