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Thermo Fisher Scientific (California, USA) has signed an agreement with Mitsui Knowledge Industry (MKI) (Tokyo, Japan) to be the exclusive distributor of MKI software for interpreting lipidomic research data.

The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) (Maryland, USA) has proposed new quality standards, or monographs, in its Food Chemicals Codex (FCC) 9th Edition for Spirulina, Brilliant Black PN, and pomegranate juice.

AB Sciex (Basel, Switzerland), Genedata (Basel, Switzerland), and LECO (Michigan, USA) have announced a technology partnership. The partnership will aim to deliver a collaborative software system for metabolomics researchers. The companies will work together to formulate a solution for the extraction of data from high fidelity liquid chromatography (LC) and gas chromatography (GC) data.

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J. Calvin Giddings provided one of the most practical discussions of the advantages of temperature programming in GC over isothermal analysis back in 1962. Here, Kevin Schug describes some of the salient points of that discussion and how they still apply today.

>Porvair Sciences has published a new mini catalogue that brings together key technical and descriptive details of the company?s comprehensive range of deep well microplates together with an independent report that demonstrates the suitability of the ultra-clean plates for long term compound storage and sample collection applications.

Thermo Fisher Scientific (Massachusetts, USA) has announced the establishment of the China Innovation Center in Shanghai, China. The company has invested $9.5 million to support the development of the organization, which will also employ 200?300 engineers over the next two to three years. This follows the opening of the company?s Suzhou manufacturing facility late last year, furthering expansion of research, development, and training capabilities in the Asia-Pacific region.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific (California, USA) has announced an intended collaboration with the Newman-Lakka Institute for Personalized Cancer Care at Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center (Massachusetts, USA).

Trajan Scientific and Medical (Victoria, Australia) has completed the acquisition of the chromatography and liquid handling businesses of SGE Analytical Science (Ringwood, Victoria, Australia).

William (Bill) Farrell, senior principal scientist at Pfizer Inc., has won the first annual Averica Award. The award will be presented at the SFC 2013 conference in Boston on 12 July.

Scientists from the Monell Chemical Senses Center (Philadelphia, USA) have developed a nano-technology sensor for the detection of melanoma.1

Compounds in honey key to activation of detoxification genes in honeybees Three scientists from the University of Illinois (Illinois, USA) have detected key compounds in honey using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) that can up-regulate detoxification genes.

LCGC recently spoke with the 2013 LCGC Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Peter W. Carr of the University of Minnesota, about his early start with science, his career choices, and his vast accomplishments.

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Charles Wilkins, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, Arkansas), has been awarded the 2013 American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Chemical Instrumentation, sponsored by the Dow Chemical Company (North Olmsted, Ohio).

William Farrell, senior principal scientist at Pfizer Inc. (New York, New York) is the winner of the first annual Averica Award. The award will be presented by Jeff Kiplinger, president of Averica (Worcester, Massachusetts), at the SFC 2013 conference in Boston, Massachusetts on July 12.

Waters (Milford, Massachusetts) recently welcomed the Flavor Research and Education Center within the Food Science and Nutrition Department at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) into its Centers of Innovation Program.

The Basic Training podcast series, providing tutorials, best practices, and podcasts about how to take a product from discovery to development

This month we take a look at the important topic of buffer choice for HPLC separations, how to the choose the correct buffer type and concentration as well as how to avoid variability in retention and selectivity.

Events

A focused outlook on how laboratory mass spectrometry techniques will fare this year compared to 2012.

We present a brief review of this year's ASMS conference, which took place June 9–13, 2013, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

This article discusses the role of CE for vitamin analysis and highlights a number of practical applications.

The reasons that make HPLC so ubiquitous; the fundamentals on how we conduct HPLC separations; and a few opportunities with far-reaching impacts in life sciences for separation scientists are discussed in this article.

A look at how the concentration of essential oils in cedar leaves is affected by changes in temperature and the amount of rainfall