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Incognito navigates the potentially precarious path to a successful relationship with a contract research organization (CRO).

The 9th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Analysis (RAFA 2019) will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, on 5–8 November 2019. This preview offers a glimpse of what to expect at the conference.

As I receive reports from clients in Europe and the United States that helium prices are once again increasing, and warnings are being given regarding yet another laboratory-grade helium shortage, my thoughts turn once again to the use of hydrogen as an alternative carrier-gas for gas chromatography (GC).

Knauer Wissenschaftliche Geräte GmbH has joined the European Union Funded IMPRESS research programme, whose goal is to advance the sustainable production of raw chemistry materials.

Thermo Fisher Scientific and Cedars-Sinai have announced a collaboration to develop a pathway to precision medicine through the development of robust, reliable, and sensitive LC–MS-based workflows for clinical research applications.

Researchers from the Technical University of Munich and the Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology have developed a new method for the simultaneous analysis of odorants and tastants using UHPLC–MS.

Markes International Ltd were officially awarded two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in September 2019.

Traveling to interesting places for conferences and hearing new ideas is certainly one of the most enjoyable aspects of a faculty position. Recently, I attended the 16th International Interdisciplinary Meeting on Bioanalysis (CECE 2019) in Gdansk, Poland. I was absolutely delighted both by the city and the scientific quality of the meeting.

Click the title above to open The Column October 2019 Europe & Asia issue, Volume 15, Number 10, in an interactive PDF format.

The 48th International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques (HPLC 2019), chaired by Alberto Cavazzini and Massimo Morbidelli, was held from 16–20 June in Milan, Italy. This instalment of “Column Watch” covers many of the highlights observed at the symposium.

The 13th International Scientific Conference on Ion Chromatography and Related Techniques will be held 21–22 April 2020 in Zabrze, Poland.

An excerpt from LCGC’s professional development platform, CHROMacademy.com

Click the title above to open the Current Trends In Mass Spectrometry October 2019 special issue in an interactive PDF format.

Click the title above to open the LCGC Europe October 2019 regular issue, Volume 32, Number 9, in an interactive PDF format.

Click the title above to open LCGC Europe Supplement October 2019, Volume 32, Number 10, in an interactive PDF format.

This “Column Watch” installment reports on highlights from the 48th International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques (HPLC 2019), held June 16 to 20 in Milan, Italy.

How does one meet the most demanding part of an analysis-sampling? A typical example is soil, which presents a twofold problem for the analyst: first, the selection of the sites where the samples are taken, and second, the reduction of a sample (for example, 1 kg) to the analysis aliquot size (for example, 10 μL). This paper describes the details of sampling issues.

Here, we review the regulatory expectations of metrics for monitoring data integrity and discuss their practical implementation in a regulated chromatography laboratory.

Click the title above to open the LCGC North America October 2019 issue, Volume 37, Number 10, in an interactive PDF format.

LCGC Europe spoke to Zhanfei Liu from the Marine Science Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas USA, about the advantages of ramped pyrolysis GC–MS to analyze petroleum pollution from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) is expanding its bioanalytical laboratory in Richmond, Virginia, in an effort to enhance its ability to meet biopharmaceutical clients’ increasing research needs.

Click the title above to open the LCGC Europe September 2019 regular issue, Volume 32, Number 9, in an interactive PDF format.

The 9th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Analysis (RAFA 2019) will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, on 5–8 November 2019. This preview offers a glimpse of what to expect at the conference.