Peaks of Interest
LECO Corporation (St. Joseph, Missouri) recently opened a global support center at its headquarters to serve domestic and international customers. The building will house its service, customer training, and consumables departments. An auditorium, training rooms, cafeteria, and restrooms have been designed exclusively for customers attending training classes. Up-to-date technology has been installed to ensure service and training needs for all customers are met quickly and efficiently.
LECO opens global support center
LECO Corporation (St. Joseph, Missouri) recently opened a global support center at its headquarters to serve domestic and international customers. The building will house its service, customer training, and consumables departments. An auditorium, training rooms, cafeteria, and restrooms have been designed exclusively for customers attending training classes. Up-to-date technology has been installed to ensure service and training needs for all customers are met quickly and efficiently.
Chromatography Market Profile
Eksigent and Applied Biosystems announce distribution agreement
Eksigent Technologies (Livermore, California) recently announced a distribution agreement with Applied Biosystems/MDS SCIEX (Foster City, California). Applied Biosystems will offer a new line of high performance liquid chromatography systems based upon Eksigent's proprietary technology integrated with Applied Biosystems/MDS SCIEX mass spectrometers.
The new Tempo liquid chromatography (LC) systems will be sold and serviced by Applied Biosystems/MDS SCIEX, and include platforms for nano LC, high-throughput micro LC, and an LC–MALDI deposition system. The systems are based upon Eksigent's Microfluidic Flow Control technology, which has been widely adopted in proteomics research and in pharmaceutical discovery applications.
Fisher Biosciences collaborates with Dyomics
Fisher Biosciences (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) recently announced a collaboration with Dyomics GmbH (Jena, Germany), a developer and manufacturer of fluorescent dyes and other markers for biomolecular research. This collaboration will enable Fisher to develop and manufacture an expanded range of products for protein and nucleic-acid detection under the Pierce brand.
Dyomics' products are used in a number of scientific-research, drug-discovery, and diagnostic applications.
Under the Pierce brand, Fisher currently offers protein-research products based primarily upon chemiluminescent and colorimetric detection and will expand to offer fluorescently labeled reagents.
National City and PerkinElmer announce partnership
National City Commercial Capital (Cleveland, Ohio) recently announced a financing partnership with the Life and Analytical Sciences division of PerkinElmer (Shelton, Conneticut). National City Commercial Capital will provide custom-financing programs for PerkinElmer customers.
National City Commercial Capital is a subsidiary of National City Corporation and is one of the largest bank-affiliated leasing companies in the country.
Determining Enhanced Sensitivity to Odors due to Anxiety-Associated Chemosignals with GC
May 8th 2025Based on their hypothesis that smelling anxiety chemosignals can, like visual anxiety induction, lead to an increase in odor sensitivity, a joint study between the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Erlangen, Germany) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging (Freising, Germany) combined behavioral experiments, odor profile analysis by a trained panel, and instrumental analysis of odorants (gas chromatography-olfactometry) and volatiles (gas chromatography-mass spectrometry).
Investigating 3D-Printable Stationary Phases in Liquid Chromatography
May 7th 20253D printing technology has potential in chromatography, but a major challenge is developing materials with both high porosity and robust mechanical properties. Recently, scientists compared the separation performances of eight different 3D printable stationary phases.
Detecting Hyper-Fast Chromatographic Peaks Using Ion Mobility Spectrometry
May 6th 2025Ion mobility spectrometers can detect trace compounds quickly, though they can face various issues with detecting certain peaks. University of Hannover scientists created a new system for resolving hyper-fast gas chromatography (GC) peaks.
