Ion Pairing HPLC Used for Ink Analysis
October 1st 2008Researchers at Beijing Normal University and the Institute of Beijing Criminal Science and Technology (China) used ion pairing high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to analyze 12 black inks and six red inks from various manufacturers in a number of countries.
Agilent Technologies Creates Specialized Training Program in China
October 1st 2008Agilent Technologies Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) announced it has created a specialized training program to address the current melamine crisis in China. The program will be available in early October and is part of Agilent University, a multifaceted education program for Agilent's customers in China.
Study Reveals Microbes Dine on Thousands of Compounds in Oil
October 1st 2008New research led by David Valentine of University of California at Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA), Chris Reddy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) (Woodshole, MA), George Wardlaw, a graduate student in the Marine Science program at UCSB, and three other co-authors from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and WHOI details how microbes are dining on thousands of compounds that make up the oil seeping from the sea floor.
PerkinElmer Sponsors World Water Monitoring Day
October 1st 2008PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences (Waltham, Massachusetts) announced its partnership with the Water Environment Federation's and the International Water Association's World Water Monitoring Day (WWMD), a month-long program that begins on September 18.
NuGEN and Hamilton Create Automated Sample Preparation Instrument
October 1st 2008NuGEN (San Carlos, California) and the Hamilton Company (Reno, Nevada) have assembled an automated, total target preparation system for high-throughput processing of clinical samples for global gene expression analysis.
Chromatide Partners with Kromasil
September 30th 2008Chromatide (Runcorn, Cheshire, UK), which develops polymer technologies to improve pharmaceutical and chemical production, and Separation Product's Kromasil, a brand of Akzo Nobel (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), have set up a research collaboration to develop and market improved silica-based high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) media.
Solid-Phase Method for Extraction of Pesticide Residues
September 30th 2008The QuEChERS (Quick, Easy, Cheap, Effective, Rugged, and Safe) method was published by Anastassiades and colleagues in 2003. Since then, this method for the extraction and clean-up of pesticide residues from agricultural products, and its many variations, have been gaining in popularity.
9th Csaba Horváth Medal Award Symposium Announces Call for Papers
September 30th 2008The 9th Csaba Horváth Medal Award Symposium, to be held on April 28?29, 2009 at the Hartford Convention Center (Hartford, Connecticut), announced they are accepting papers for oral and poster presentations on the topics of Advances in Separation Technologies, Multidimensional Separations, UPLC, LC-MS, Biomarkers, and Separation of Enantiomers. The deadline for submission of the abstract is February 15, 2009.
9th Csaba Horváth Medal Award Symposium Announces Call for Papers
September 15th 2008The 9th Csaba Horváth Medal Award Symposium, to be held on April 28-29, 2009 at the Hartford Convention Center (Hartford, Connecticut), announced they are accepting papers for oral and poster presentations on the topics of Advances in Separation Technologies, Multidimensional Separations, UPLC, LC-MS, Biomarkers, and Separation of Enantiomers.
SFE Clean-Up of Olive Oil Samples for Herbicide Analysis
September 15th 2008Researchers at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquees (Agadir, Morocco), and Institut Agronomique et Veterinaire Hassan II (Agadir, Morocco) developed a method for screening paraquat and diquat in olive oil samples.
Chromatide Partners with Kromasil
September 15th 2008Chromatide (Runcorn, Cheshire, UK), which develops polymer technologies to improve pharmaceutical and chemical production, and Separation Product's Kromasil, a brand of Akzo Nobel (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), have set up a research collaboration to develop and market improved silica-based high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) media.
PerkinElmer and M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Collaborate
September 15th 2008PerkinElmer, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) announced an arrangement with the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, Texas) that will bring the company's Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization technique to the cancer center.
Coacervative Extraction of Priority Carcinogenic PAHs from Water for LC Analysis
September 15th 2008Researchers from Edificio Anexo Marie Curie (Cordoba, Spain) used coacervates of decanoic acid reverse micelles to extract priority carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in waste and surface water for subsequent analysis by liquid chromatography-fluorimetry.