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CEPHT fight for food

The North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University?s Centre for Excellence in Post Harvest Technologies (CEPHT) is on a mission to defeat pathogens that cause foodborne illnesses and treat outbreaks more effectively.

Waters has announced, alongside Mars Incorporated and the US Agency for International Development (USAID), that they have jointly pledged $1 million to create the first ever global food safety capacity building fund.

Researchers from the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) in Delhi, India, have been awarded a grant of $950,000 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Grand Challenges Canada for their research into an electronic nose that can detect and diagnose TB.

A new ALEXYS Analyzer has been developed for a number of well-known neurotransmitters and metabolites which uses a UHPLC system with sub-2 μm packed columns to optimize plate numbers, retention times and detection sensitivity.

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3-MCPD ester analysis is a much faster and more economical method when using the LECO's Pegasus 4D GCxGC-TOFMS and ChromaTOF single software platform. The result is a sensitive method and a clear reduction of cost-per-analysis.

HTC-12 and HTSP-2

The 12th International Symposium on Hyphenated Techniques in Chromatography and Hyphenated Chromatographic Analyzers (HTC-12) will take place at the Old Saint John Conference Centre in Bruges, Belgium, from the 1?3 February 2012.

The use of flow splitters between the two dimensions in on-line comprehensive two-dimensional liquid chromatography (LC×LC) has received little attention in comparison to their use in two dimensional gas chromatography.

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Silky dating

The dating of silk textiles can be problematic for experts but a team of researchers at the Smithsonian Institute has developed a new method with this as their main objective.

A recent study on the evolution of avian sex chromosomes has focused on retroposons as a novel method for reconstructing gametologous gene trees.

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Sweet sweet corn

The increased value of fresh sweet corn over the last decade has led to an investigation into the characteristics that increase marketability.

Riva Awards 2012

PerkinElmer has announced two awards that will be presented at the 36th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography and the 9th GCxGC Symposium, Riva del Garda, Italy.

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UHPLC Technology Forum

New techniques in ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography (UHPLC) are providing scientists with additional ways to perform laboratory tasks. To learn more about the latest developments in UHPLC and the future of the technique, LCGC spoke with several experts in the field. Participants in this forum are Wulff Niedner, manager, LC products, Thermo Fisher; Mark Upton, liquid chromatography specialist, PerkinElmer, Seer Green, UK; and Doug McCabe, Senior Marketing Manager, Waters Corporation.

Linde Gases has announced an agreement with Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Finland?s leading science and technology education facility, for the installation of a major central gas supply system at the University?s recently renovated multi-storey research laboratory of chemical engineering and separation technology.

New UHPLC Nano Flow Sensor

Sensirion, a leading supplier of microsensor solutions, presents a new Nano Flow Sensor for ultra high pressure liquid chromatography (UHPLC) applications.