LGC and HFL gear up for the Olympics
July 27th 2012HFL Sport Science (HFL), a part of the LGC Group (Teddington, Middlesex, UK) and one of the world’s largest sports drug surveillance laboratories, is preparing for its role testing the horses competing in equestrian events at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
New ACE® ExcelTM 2µm Ultra Robust UHPLC columns
July 20th 2012ACE Excel 2µm Ultra Robust UHPLC columns from Advanced Chromatography Technologies offer you all the benefits that chromatographers have come to expect from ACE columns (exceptional reproducibility and robustness, combined with excellent quality and efficiency) but have been especially engineered to withstand the demanding conditions of UHPLC.
Using LC-MS to Study Protein Expression in Crop Development
July 20th 2012As the need for improvements in the yield, insect resistance and abiotic stress tolerance of crop plants continues to increase, Gia C. Fazio and colleagues Wayne Skinner, Zina Dahmani, Yingzhi Lu and Jean C. Kridl have collaborated on a paper that describes the use of liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) to quantify the expression of levels of a transgenic protein, barley alanine aminotransferase, across multiple rice lines.
LGC and HFL gear up for the Olympics
July 20th 2012HFL Sport Science (HFL), a part of the LGC Group (Teddington, Middlesex, UK) and one of the world’s largest sports drug surveillance laboratories, is preparing for its role testing the horses competing in equestrian events at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Agilent collaborates to identify causes of outbreaks
July 20th 2012Agilent (Santa Clara, California, USA), The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the University of California, Davis, California, USA, and the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention have announced a collaboration to create a public database of 100,000 foodborne pathogen genomes to help speed identification of bacteria responsible for foodborne outbreaks.
Pharmaceutical Separations Technology Forum
July 17th 2012Experts from the pharmaceutical industry discuss current and emerging trends in detection techniques, the growing presence of UHPLC technologies and the impact of company consolidation. Participants in this forum include Simon Lomas, Brand Manager, HPLC and UHPLC products, Phenomenex, Frank Steiner, Manager, Small Molecule Solutions, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Dominic Moore, Senior Business Manager Pharmaceutical Business Operations, Waters Corporation.