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There are four types of poisonous frogs known to secrete lipid?soluble alkaloids derived from their food. The discovery of these skin alkaloids in a fifth species in Cuba could provide new clues to these amphibians? evolution.

Dionex - Faster Analysis of Neuroactive Amino Acids

AB SCIEX has announced a collaboration with Landeswasserversorgung Water Supply to improve the identification of contaminants in drinking water.

Thermo Fisher Scientific - NA Metabolimcs Dec

Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced that the company is to acquire Dionex for approximately $2.1 billion.

Meeting report of the "Art of Separation: Hyphenation and Application" organized in honour of Udo Brinkman.

Antec Product Profile

AB SCIEX has announced that the company has expanded its commercial operations in Korea. The company created a new direct sales organization under AB SCIEX Korea to help customers located in Korea through the use of mass spectrometry technologies.

Metrohm App Note

The United States Food and Drug Administration in Irvine, California, USA has purchased the Dionex ICS-5000 ion chromatography system with mass spectrometer for the analysis of biogenic amines in fish samples.

Waters (LCGC Europe) - A Flexible SPE/LC/MS/MS Platform for the Simultaneous Quantitation of Multiple Amyloid Peptides in Cerebrospinal Fluid

LCGC NA, Thermo - Melamine in Milk Products by Benchtop Orbitrap LC-MS

Whether organic produce provides any actual health benefits is still controversial, and a recent study of organic carrots, onions and potatoes has claimed that the process may add nothing at all.

Thermo Fisher (Waltham, Massachusetts) announced today that it will acquire Dionex Corporation (Sunnyvale, California) for approximately $2.1 billion, a transaction that is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2011. Dionex will be integrated into the Scientific Instruments division of Thermo Fisher.

Waters SFC Application Notebook

A new scientific facility to develop measurement standards in areas including life science has been inaugurated at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in Geel, Belgium.

GERSTEL and CTC Analytics have announced the formation of a distribution partnership for Latin America.

FMS Product Profile

KNAUER has donated a high-quality analyser to the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) for use in education and training in the chemical engineering department.

Pomegranates are loaded with antioxidants and millions of people turn to pomegranate juice for its many health benefits, but every time you take a sip from a bottle of the popular juice, how much of the actual fruit are you consuming?

According to a recent report, the global market for gas chromatography systems is expected to reach upwards of $1.2 billion by the year 2015.

Peak identification or substance identification can be very important in GPC/SEC, especially when establishing new methods.

A comprehensive review of a selection of companies? most instrumental innovation/research or scientific breakthrough in 2010.

Joining us for a discussion on CE this month is Kevin Altria of GlaxoSmithKline Research & Development.

Thermo - Melamine in Milk Products by Benchtop Orbitrap LC-MS

: [?]Are in-line degassers on modern instruments (Waters and Agilent) sufficient to degas HPLC solvents for on-line mixing of gas saturated organic and aqueous solvents? What about the personal observation of the effect of pre-degassing mobile phase components? Are reproducible data available on the rate of resaturation of air into common HPLC solvents?

Agilent J&W continues their ultra inert innovations with the new DB-35ms Ultra Inert GC column --- a mid-polar column joining the existing apolar columns in the family, DB/HP-1ms and DB/HP-5ms.

Agilent Technologies has announced the opening of a new life sciences instrument manufacturing facility in Singapore. The facility will produce the company's LC-MS instruments for the global market.

Scientists from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPC PAS) have been undergoing a series of studies to learn more about the creation of thin layers of highly ordered polymers and how spectroscopy and HPLC can be used to create organic and elastic electronics.