All News

Danaher has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Beckman Coulter, which will see it acquire the company for approximately $6.8 billion.

Click here to view the complete e-Separation Solutions newsletter from February 18, 2011.

Joining us for a discussion on gas chromatography this month are Bob Wiedemer from Thermo Fisher Scientific and Margit Geissler from Shimadzu.

Shimadzu product profile

Agilent Technologies and A2 Technologies have signed a definitive agreement for Agilent to acquire specific assets of A2 Technologies. The acquisition is reported to include substantially all of A2 Technologies' intellectual property, technology, employees and its spectroscopy product portfolio.

Waters - Improving Mass Load Capacity for Basic Compounds Using Charged Surface Hybrid (CSH) Technology Columns

Participants in this discussion are Bob Wiedemer from Thermo Fisher Scientific and Margit Geissler from Shimadzu.

Pittcon 2011 has launched an official conference and exposition smartphone app, which includes complete event information including the technical programme, exhibitor listing, short courses, and local area and conference related maps.

To gain deeper insight into morning breath, researchers developed a procedure to collect breath samples at home.

Parker - Generating Make-up Gas for GC

Novasep and instrAction have expanded their worldwide strategic alliance to include the purification of taxanes, a well-known class of anti-cancer compounds.

Dionex EU - Determination of Methacholine Chloride and Potential Impurities

Dionex NA - Determination of Ethylene Glycol and Diethylene Glycol

Dionex NA - Determination of Methacholine Chloride and Potential Impurities

Dionex EU - Determination of Ethylene Glycol and Diethylene Glycol

For most of us, change isn't easy. Anyone who has tried to kick an ingrained habit knows this. I've been saying for years that I should give up diet cola, but it hasn't happened yet. (Actually, it did happen once, and then I started up again. Sigh.)

Click here to view the complete e-Separation Solutions newsletter from February 10, 2011.

This February 2011 edition of The Application Notebook is the 10th Anniversary of publishing these supplements and further affirms the valuable service they perform in the chromatography community.

An interview with Jared Anderson of the University of Toledo.

The orbitrap, a new type of mass analyzer, has drawn attention due to its analytical performance.

Phenomenex Application Note

Autosamplers are widely used in analytical laboratories to increase sample throughput.

Merck KGaA has acquired Beijing Skywing Technology, a supplier of cell-culture media products related technical services and bioreactors for the Chinese biopharmaceutical industry, for ¥120 million.

In 1976 the Viking landers took samples of the soil on Mars and analysed it for organic compounds. Traces were dismissed as contamination, however a reinterpretation of the results suggests significant levels were present, hidden by the strong oxidation effect of salt in the Martian soil.

For years master gardeners have claimed that putting Bounce brand dryer sheets in their pockets repels pests, but no quantitative data had been obtained to substantiate these claims.

Dionex - A Metabolomic Approach to Diabetes

DataApex has opened its second European Clarity training centre in Germany. According to the company the centre will offer classes and individual training to users of Clarity chromatography software.

A discovery during the investigation of subcritical water chromatography has led to a novel method that could provide a green and cheap addition to the analytical chemist?s toolbox.

LCGC - Considerations on Switching from Helium to Hydrogen

For this month's Chromatography Corner, we spoke to Kevin Schug of the University of Texas at Arlington. Schug addresses a few myths that surround electrospray ionization (ESI), including why "less is more" for successful separations.