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Bruker (Massachusetts, USA) has announced the election of Marc Kastner, Dean of the School of Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Massachusetts, USA) to its board of directors.

The EVOLUTE? EXPRESS range of 96-well SPE plates combine powerful EVOLUTE sorbent chemistry with innovative features that enhance productivity by optimizing and even eliminating the need for some traditional SPE procedural steps.

Lisa Witte ? vice-president/general manager of Thermo Fisher Scientific?s portable analytical instruments business (California, USA) ? has received a Women in Manufacturing STEP (Science, Technology, Engineering and Production) award from the Manufacturing Institute/Deloitte, the University of Phoenix and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.

Waters NA - Analytical Standards and Reagents

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Waters NA - Using XP Columns to Modernize the USP Organic Impurities Analysis of Tioconazole

The American Chemical Society (ACS) named Brian Bidlingmeyer of Agilent Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) and a member of LCGC?s editorial advisory board to the 2012 class of ACS Fellows.

Should HPLC eluent additives be added to one or both of the constituent mobile phase reservoirs - both organic and aqueous, when mixing gradients online?

Thermo EU - Automated Glycan Structural Isomer Differentiation Using SimGlycan Software

Tablets found aboard an ancient shipwreck could identify the early beginnings of medicine. A team of scientists led by Erika Ribechini of the University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy) determined the composition of tablets found aboard a ship-wrecked off the coast of Tuscany (Italy) around 2,000 years ago.1

When discussing optimization and improvements to costly and time-consuming purification processes "trapping" columns can be an alternative to fractionation.

A team of scientists in Germany1 has identified a new protein from the venom of the snake, Vipera palaestinae, that could be used in the development of anti-cancer drugs.

This article describes the extraction of drug residues by QuEChERS (quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged and safe) and analysis by liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization?tandem mass spectrometry (LC-ESI?MS?MS), using dynamic multiple reaction monitoring (DMRM), for the improved quantification of veterinary drugs.

In clinical and pharmaceutical testing, analkyses of drug compounds and their metabolites are often performed in complex biological matrices, such as plasma and whole blood.

Analytical Pixels Technology (APIX) (Grenoble, France) has teamed up with research organisations, CEA?Leti (Grenoble, France) and Caltech (California, USA).

The Microlute SPE sample preparation system from Porvair Sciences provides a faster, trouble-free alternative to cartridges for high throughput sample clean-up.

Agilent (California, USA) and Sera Prognostics (Utah, USA) have formed a strategic partnership to develop proteomic assays for the prediction of pregnancy complications. Sera Prognostics is a private biotechnology company that develops diagnostic tests for these risks.

Ultra-high sensitivity, expanded flexibility, increased stability and robustness - the new Nexera X2 UHPLC system targets routine analysis and applications in highly regulated environments demanding complex system setups.

Click here to view the complete E-Separation Solutions newsletter from February 14, 2013

Thermo NA - Determining Inorganic Cations in Wastewater with HPIC

Waters - Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of β-carotene Using UPC2

Thermo Fisher Scientific (California, USA) has entered into a Technology Alliance Partnership agreement with the Barnett Institute, Northeastern University (Massachusetts, USA).

Waters EU - Using XP Columns to Modernize the USP Organic Impurities Analysis of Tioconazole

The United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has added nearly 800 new records, mostly from 2011 and 2012, to its Food Fraud Database, increasing the size of the database by 60%. The original database contained 1,300 records, covering fraud reports issued between 1980 and 2010. The database compiles data taken from publicly available reports in both scholarly journals and general media, with key findings published in the Journal of Food Science (1).

Click here to view the complete LCGC Europe E-Newsletter from 8 February 2013

Bruker EU - Analysis of Microcystins in Drinking Water

Bruker NA - Analysis of Microcystins in Drinking Water

Thermo EU - Analysis of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Using a Highly Pure, High Surface Area C18 HPLC Column