Eksigent enters Latin America
Eksigent enters Latin America
Eksigent (Dublin, California) announced a new distribution agreement with Nova Analitica of Brazil. The agreement covers sales and service of Eksigent's NanoLC HPLC product line. Nova Analitica specializes in chromatography and spectrometry equipment for the analytical chemistry and life science research markets. The company serves all of Brazil, and its customers include pharmaceutical companies, private research institutions, and academia.
Thermo Fisher acquires OptiCell
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., (San Jose, California) announced it has acquired all assets of the OptiCell product line from BioCrystal, Ltd. (Westerville, Ohio). Included in the transaction were trademarks, production equipment, inventory, and 12 patents related to OptiCell technology.
Columnist Ron Majors awarded
Senior chemist for the LC Columns and Supplies Division of Agilent Technologies (Palo Alto, California) and LCGC columnist Ron E. Majors was awarded the L.S Palmer Award by the Minnesota Chromatography Forum (MCF) for his outstanding contributions to chromatography. His award was presented at the MCF's 2007 Symposium in Minneapolis. Ron, who has been at HP/Agilent since 1990, has over 150 publications in chromatography, sample preparation, and surface chemistry.
Shimadzu opens new office
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (Columbia, Maryland) announced the opening of a new regional office in Carlsbad, California. The office will allow Shimadzu to provide more direct sales, technical support, and service for Southern California, Southern Nevada, and Hawaii.
Thar completes Berger acquisition
Thar Instruments (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) announced the acquisition of the Berger SFC division of Mettler Toledo (Columbus, Ohio). Berger SFC has been involved in the development of SFC and is a world leader in SFC analysis and purification. The combination of the top two supercritical fluid technology companies will enable the advancement of new technologies.
JASCO receives award
The Molecular Chirality Research Organization (MCRO) held its annual Molecular Chirality Symposium on May 15–16 at the Tokyo University of Science in Tokyo, Japan. On May 15, this year's honors went to Professor Hiroshi Tsukube of Osaka City University and to JASCO (Easton, Maryland).
The Symposium on Molecular Chirality was initiated by the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan to promote progress in the pharmaceutical sciences dealing with
chiral drugs.
Inside the Laboratory: The Gionfriddo Group at the University of Buffalo
March 28th 2024In this edition of “Inside the Laboratory,” Emanuela Gionfriddo, PhD, an associate professor of chemistry at the University at Buffalo, discusses her group’s current research endeavors, including using solid-phase microextraction (SPME) coupled to liquid chromatography (LC) and gas chromatography (GC) to further understand the chemical relationship between environmental exposure and disease and elucidate micropollutants fate in the environment and biological systems.
Transferring Methods to Compact and Portable HPLC
February 14th 2024The current trend in laboratory equipment design is the miniaturization of laboratory instruments. Smaller-scale HPLC instruments offer benefits that cannot be matched by analytical-scale equipment, especially in the areas of portability, reduced fluid volumes, and reduced operating costs. Yet, the miniaturization of laboratory equipment has brought with it a unique set of challenges, including transferring methods to compact LC. Capillary LC expands the use of LC to applications not currently done using conventional LC in a wide array of application areas, including pharmaceutical, food and beverage, petrochemical, environmental, and oil and gas. Greg Ward, Axcend’s CEO wrote, “Customers want an HPLC system with a small footprint, low flow rates and green chemistry.” Join his podcast where he shares method transfer in these application areas.
Sustainable Green Solvents in Microextraction: A Review of Recent Advancements
March 27th 2024Conventional sample preparation can be time- and resource-consuming, and a green analytical methodology can be a game-changer for scientists, in addition to facilitating selective and sensitive separations.