Dionex Agrees to Purchase Caliper Life Sciences SPE Products
November 15th 2008Dionex (Sunnyvale, California) has agreed to purchase Caliper Life Sciences? (Hopkinton, Massachusetts) AutoTrace solid-phase extraction (SPE) products, including the AutoTrace SPE workstation, which is designed to automate the extraction of large-volume aqueous samples before analysis.
SEC Analysis of Star Branched Polyethylene Glycol without Column Interaction
November 10th 2008Recent advances in polymer chemistry have led to the development of novel materials with both controlled functionality and structure resulting in unusual rheological properties. Examples include the many di- and triblock copolymer architectures and dendritic systems. These materials often include regions of different polarity and hydrophobicity and therefore represent a challenge to the analytical chemist. This application note illustrates the analysis of a star-branched polyethylene glycol with a significant hydrophobic component by aqueous SEC.
Total-Prep™ solution for POPs analysis
November 10th 2008FMS introduces the only known "Total Solution" Sample Prep system available that combines 3 systems in 1 economical package. The Total Prep performs the entire extraction, sample clean-up and concentration for six samples in less than a few hours, thus producing high recoveries and excellent precision for all analysts.
Collaboration on environmental training programme for LC–MS system
November 7th 2008Operators of the Agilent 6410 triple quadrupole liquid chromatography–mass spectrometer (LC–MS) system look set to benefit from a collaboration between the National Laboratory Service (NLS) and Agilent Technologies. The two will collaborate to launch an environmental training programme...
New European headquarters concludes golden celebrations
November 7th 2008This year JASCO celebrates its 50th anniversary in the analytical instrumentation market and the company's celebrations conclude with Jasco Europe, a subsidiary of Jasco Corporation, moving into its new facilities in Cremella (Italy) in November 2008...
Liquid-Liquid Microextraction of Haloacetic Acids in Drinking Water
November 1st 2008Researchers from the University of Córdoba (Córdoba, Spain) studied the use of simultaneous liquid-liquid microextraction and methylation along with headspace gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to determine nine haloacetic acids in drinking water.
JASCO's European Headquarter's Grand Opening Concludes its 50th Anniversary Celebration in 2008
November 1st 2008Celebrations for JASCO's 50th anniversary in the analytical instrumentation market will conclude with Jasco Europe, a subsidiary of Jasco Corporation, moving into its new facilities in Cremella, Italy in November 2008.
Teledyne Tekmar partners with Sun Analytical Instruments
November 1st 2008Teledyne Tekmar Company (Mason, OH), a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, has partnered with Sun Analytical Instruments. Sun Analytical Instruments will be responsible for managing sales for Tekmar?s analytical instruments in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Researchers Discover Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin Shows Link to Fracture Risk in Older Men
November 1st 2008Researchers from the University of Gothenburg and other sites in Sweden, along with researchers from Portland, Oregon and Quebec, Canada conducted a study to examine the role of serum sex steroids in fracture risk among men.
Researchers Discover Potent Greenhouse Gas
November 1st 2008According to a report in Nature News, nitrogen trifluoride is an extremely potent greenhouse gas used in the electronics industry, which is at least four times more abundant in the atmosphere than previously thought. Scientists recommend that to better control its use, NF3 should be added to the list of gases regulated under future climate-change agreements.
SFE Used to Recover Aflatoxin from Soil
November 1st 2008Researchers from US EPA National Exposure Research Laboratory (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) and East Carolina University (Greenville, North Carolina) used supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) to recover aflatoxin B1 from fortified soil.
2008 Nobel Prize Awarded for Discovery of Green Fluorescent Protein
November 1st 2008The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is awarding the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2008 to Osamu Shimomura (Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University Medical School), Martin Chalfie (Columbia University, New York), and Roger Y. Tsien (University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California) for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein (GFP).
SBSE in the Analysis of Pharmaceuticals in Water
November 1st 2008A research group from the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal) studied the use of stir-bar sorptive extraction (SBSE) with polyurethane and polydimethylsiloxane polymeric phases and high performance liquid chromatography with diode-array detection for the analysis of six acidic pharmaceutical compounds in environmental water matrices such as river, sea, and wastewater samples.
Waters to Supply David H. Murdock Research Institute with Laboratory Technology
November 1st 2008The David H. Murdock Research Institute (Kannapolis, NC) announced that Waters (Milford, MA) will be the primary supplier of analytical science solutions, including mass spectrometers, liquid chromatographs, and associated scientific data management software.