Advanced Materials Technology and Capsulution NanoScience AG Sign Patent License Contract
July 15th 2008Advanced Materials Technology (Wilmington, Delaware), a manufacturer and developer of columns for HPLC, and the Berlin-based Capsulution NanoScience AG signed a license contract for the use of the LBL? Technology in June.
Headspace SPME Used to Analyze Cheese Flavors
July 15th 2008Researchers at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (St-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada) and McGill University (Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada) used headspace solid-phase microextraction (SPME) in conjunction with gas chromatography?mass spectrometry (GC?MS) to measure flavor compounds in commercial cheddar cheese and enzyme-modified cheddar cheese.
Horizon Technology Partners with World Water Monitoring Day
July 15th 2008Horizon Technology (Salem, New Hampshire), a manufacturer of automated sample preparation equipment, has announced that it has partnered with the Water Environment Federation and the International Water Association to promote World Water Monitoring Day (WWMD) 2008.
Quantum Analytics and LEAP Technologies Align
July 15th 2008Quantum Analytics (Foster City, California) and LEAP Technologies (Carrboro, North Carolina) have announced a co-marketing partnership to offer efficiency improving chromatography and mass spectrometer systems, including new developments in front-end automation.
GC Method Helps Narrow Source of Drug Distribution
July 15th 2008Scientists at the National Police Scientific Institute in Ecully, France have been analyzing solvents trapped within crystals of cocaine hydrochloride with a static headspace-gas chromatography method. This method helps them ascertain the drug's country of origion, which can help determine the distribution chain.
Pittcon 2009 Announces Call for Conferee Networking Topics
July 15th 2008Pittsburgh Conference (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) organizers have announced a call for topic input for conferee networking sessions at Pittcon 2009, which is scheduled to be held March 8-13 at McCormick Place South in Chicago, Illinois.
Mass Spectrometry Test for Sports Doping
July 15th 2008Researchers at the University of Utah's (Salt Lake City) Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory developed a test for testosterone and epitestosterone in urine that uses liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry detection (LC-MS-MS).
Branching in High Molar Mass Synthetic Amyloses
July 10th 2008Wyatt Technology has published an application note on branching in high molar mass synthetic amyloses. Amylose is an occasionally-branched biopolymer and, together with amylopectin, the hyper-branched component, a constituent of starch. Determination of branching in amylopectin on the basis of amyloses may be performed with the help of synthetic amyloses. Synthetic amyloses from enzymatic (phosphorolytic) reaction were checked for their linearity.