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New research has indicated that mass spectrometry (MS) could be used in the diagnosis and, potentially, in the prognosis of autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

A team of scientists have performed the first attempt at separation of organic compounds using microwave reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography (MW?HPLC).

A team of scientists have developed a new analytical method to evaluate the quality of new renewable transportation fuels and intermediate organic liquid products (OLPs), as the current method has been developed for petroleum-based feedstocks and so is not suitable.

Ask yourself a simple question. Do you know the structure or any of the physical properties of the analyte(s) from your most recent analysis? If the answer is yes, award yourself a self-congratulatory point. If no, why on earth not?

Professor Mario Thevis from the Germany Sport University Cologne, Cologne chairs the morning session on Drug Testing and Analysis which begins with a talk on the Use of in vitro Metabolism Studies in Doping Control by Tila Kuuranne from the Doping Control laboratory, United Laboratories, Helsinki, Finland.

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This Wednsday morning session will be presided over by Professor Feldmann of the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Great Britain.

A session titled ?Advances and Challenges in Separation Science? chaired by Professor Engewald, Leipzig, Germany, begins at 2:00 p.m. today.

From 17?20 April 2012, representatives of the laboratory technology, analysis and biotechnology sectors will meet at Analytica 2012 in Munich, Germany. In this 23rd year, visitors can expect a special highlight: For the first time ever, the international trade fair will feature three completely equipped laboratories with live demonstrations on each day of the fair.

This Tuesday session will be chaired by Dr Juan Pablo Albar, Proteomics Facility, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.

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This Tuesday session will be chaired by Professor Ralf Zimmermann of the University of Röstock, Germany.

A retention index tool called iMatch that aims to reduce the number of false positive results when using gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS ) and comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC×GC-MS) has been developed by a team of researchers from the University of Louisville. Alasdair Matheson, editor of LCGC Europe, spoke to Xiang Zhang to find out more.

Good news for users analyzing complex sample mixtures: Shimadzu offers an extra dimension in peak separations for all hyphenation technologies in chromatography.

Shimadzu has announced that they will establish the Shimadzu Centre for Advanced Analytical Chemistry at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA.

GE Healthcare has announced the acquisition of SeqWright, a provider of nucleic acid sequencing and other genomic services.

Kevin Schug, an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at The University of Texas (UT) at Arlington, has been named the university's new Shimadzu Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry.

Thermo Fisher (Waltham, Massachusetts) has launched a seminar series, ?New Frontiers in Water Analysis,? which is scheduled for major European cities now through December 2012.

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences (Indianapolis, Indiana) has acquired Blue Ocean Biomedical, LLC, a Pembroke Pines, Florida-based manufacturer of automated flow cytometry systems and reagents.

Novasep (Pompey, France) has announced the opening of a new facility in Shanghai, China. This new site will complement Novasep?s existing 12 global synthesis and process sites in France, the US, Germany, Belgium and the Bahamas.

AB SCIEX (Framingham, Massachusetts, USA) has announced the AB SCIEX Academic Partnership Programme to increase the number of scientists who benefit from the company?s assistance and resources for advancing research in proteomics, metabolomics and lipidomics.

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Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, California) and FAPESP, the São Paulo Research Foundation and principal funding agency for academic research in the city of São Paulo, Brazil are jointly funding two research projects.

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Researchers from the University of Basque, Spain, have conducted an experiment into different cooking oils and discovered that compounds known as aldehydes released from the oils increase the risk of neurologic degenerative diseases and several different cancers.

Two scientists from Uludag University in Turkey have examined the potential transfer of harmful phthalates from toys onto the skin of children via sweat.

A stable baseline is a prerequisite for precise, accurate and reproducible GPC/SEC analysis, especially for samples with a broad molar mass distribution. Baseline problems can include drift, wander (long-term noise), noise/spikes (short-term noise), as well as positive or negative system peaks.