Cancer-Fighting Agent Found Using Reversed-Phase Chromatography
June 7th 2011Using flash reversed-phase column chromatography and a 3-D cancer cell culture assay system to examine a fungus in soil, a team of experts led by Jong Seog Ahn, of the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology Chemical (KRIBB) Biology Research Center (Daejeon, South Korea) succeeded in discovering fusarisetin, a new antimetastatic agent capable of fighting cancerous cells.
Bioanalysis: LC-MS-MS, Sample Prep and Dried Blood Spot Analysis
June 3rd 2011Bioanalysis uses a variety of separation techniques to analyse samples ranging from plasma and urine to dried blood spots. Participants in this Technology Forum are Ling Bei, Patrik Appelblad and Dave Lentz of EMD Millipore; Nadine Boudreau of PharmaNet Canada; Diab Elmashni, Jeff Zonderman and Simon Szwandt of Thermo Fisher Scientific; and Debadeep Bhattacharya of Waters Corporation.
Aggregated Singletons for Automated Purification Workflow
June 1st 2011Aggregated singletons for automated purification (ASAP) is a purification workflow that provides singleton sample purification, registration, and delivery to the materials management department as 30 mM dimethyl sulfoxide solutions for biological screening.