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Thermo Fisher Scientific Center for Multiplexed Proteomics at Harvard Medical School Established
March 27th 2014Thermo Fisher Scientific (California, USA) and Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA) have teamed up to establish the Thermo Fisher Scientific Center for Multiplexed Proteomics at Harvard Medical School. The facility has been set up for the development of new methods for protein quantitation, as well as the development of training courses to make expertise available to the wider community.
Katherine Ayers Wins Women Chemists Committee Rising Star Award 2014
March 27th 2014The ACS Women Chemists Committee (WCC) has awarded a 2014 WCC Rising Star Award to Katherine Ayers, Director of Research for Proton OnSite (Connecticut, USA). The award recognizes exceptional early to mid-career women chemists from across all areas of chemistry on a national level.
Katherine Ayers Wins Women Chemists Committee Rising Star Award 2014
March 27th 2014The ACS Women Chemists Committee (WCC) has awarded a 2014 WCC Rising Star Award to Katherine Ayers, Director of Research for Proton OnSite (Connecticut, USA). The award recognizes exceptional early to mid-career women chemists from across all areas of chemistry on a national level.
GC–MS Detects and Identifies Four Ozone Depleting Gases in Atmosphere
March 25th 2014Four new ozone-depleting substances (ODSs) - CFC–1121, CFC–112a, CFC–113a, and HCF–133a - have been detected and identified in the Earth?s atmosphere using gas chromatography?mass spectrometry (GC–MS).1 The research published in Nature Geoscience compared samples collected between 1978 and 2012 to establish a clear increase in the emissions of these gases, even though CFC production has been banned globally since 1987.
The LCGC Blog: Diode Array Detector Settings - Five Minutes to Change Your Chromatography Forever
March 20th 2014Of late we have been running a series called 'Lock and Leave', which serves as a reminder to pay attention to those instrument parameters which are often overlooked - you know the type of thing ? 'that's the best value for this system?, 'we always set to that value' and 'I have no idea what that does' ? it's always at that value'.
Study Demonstrates Novel Passive Sampling Using Silicone Wristbands
March 20th 2014Silicone wristbands promoting charitable organizations and which are popular throughout the world as a fashion statement can be used to monitor exposure of individuals to contaminants in their local environment, according to a study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.1 The authors of the study propose silicone bands as passive samplers that can give a temporal and spatial picture of human contaminant exposure.
Study Demonstrates Novel Passive Sampling Using Silicone Wristbands
March 20th 2014Silicone wristbands promoting charitable organizations and which are popular throughout the world as a fashion statement can be used to monitor exposure of individuals to contaminants in their local environment, according to a study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.1 The authors of the study propose silicone bands as passive samplers that can give a temporal and spatial picture of human contaminant exposure.
Agilent to Support Lipidomics Research Consortium Led by National University of Singapore
March 20th 2014The National University of Singapore (Singapore) is leading a research consortium to develop the world?s first lipid database for different racial and ethnic groups, supported by Agilent Technologies (California, USA). When completed, the project will provide a centralized resource for researchers studying fat levels as diagnostic markers.
Novel Passive Sampling Using Silicone Wristbands
March 20th 2014Silicone wristbands promoting charitable organizations and which are popular throughout the world as a fashion statement can be used to monitor exposure of individuals to contaminants in their local environment, according to a study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.1 The authors of the study propose silicone bands as passive samplers that can give a temporal and spatial picture of human contaminant exposure.
Fluoride Analysis of Ice Cores Using Fast Ion Chromatography
March 20th 2014Scientists from the University of Florence in Italy have developed a novel fast ion chromatographic (FIC) method for the analysis of fluoride in Antarctic snow and ice. Data from fluoride analysis has the potential to assist scientists to build up a picture of past volcanic activity.
Gerard Rozing Wins 2014 Uwe D. Neue Award
March 13th 2014Gerard Rozing has been announced as the winner of the second annual Uwe D. Neue Award in Separation Science. The award was created by Waters Corporation (Massachusetts, USA) to recognize the work of distinguished industrial scientists, in honour of Dr Uwe D. Neue, late scientist and Waters Corporate Fellow. Rozing will receive the award at the upcoming 41st International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques (HPLC2014) held on 11–15 May in New Orleans, USA.
The LCGC Blog: A View of Separation Science Research at a Czech Conference
March 13th 2014The United States woefully underfunds international collaborations with the Czech Republic. Yet, it is a country that produces excellent scientists who are distinctly passionate about science, and who have been educated to demonstrate not only a strong mastery of chemistry basics, but also superb knowledge of the integration of high-level mathematics and computer programming skills into their science. One need not look very far in the separation science and mass spectrometry (MS) fields in the United States to find eminent leaders with roots in the Czech Republic.
Principal Component Analysis with LC–MS Enhances Natural Drug Discovery Process
March 10th 2014Scientists in Malaysia have developed a useful metabolomics approach that could aid analysts working in natural drug discovery. The team applied liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) coupled with principle component analysis (PCA) to screen more than 4000 natural extracts for novel photosensitizer drugs.
