Peaks of Interest
A thorough consideration of 30 nominated instruments by 21 nominating editors resulted in a clear runaway for the top product at this year's Pittcon. The gold award was presented to JEOL (Peabody, Massachusetts) for its DART ionization technology for MS.
2005 Pittcon Editors' Awards
A thorough consideration of 30 nominated instruments by 21 nominating editors resulted in a clear runaway for the top product at this year's Pittcon. The gold award was presented to JEOL (Peabody, Massachusetts) for its DART ionization technology for MS.
Chromatography Market Profile
A three-way tie for the silver award went to ESA, Inc. (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) for its Corona CAD detector, Shimadzu Scientific Instrument, Inc.'s (Columbia, Maryland) LC-MS-IT-TOF, and the ICS-3000 from Dionex Corporation (Sunnyvale, California).
Agilent Technologies' (Palo Alto, California) HPLC-Chip ESI-MS received the bronze award.
Congratulations to all the winners!
Honeywell announces cross-distribution agreement with Chata Biosystems
Honeywell Burdick & Jackson (Muskegon, Michigan) announced it has signed a cross-distribution agreement with Chata Biosystems, Inc. (Fort Collins, Colorado) under which Honeywell will market and be the exclusive distributor of Chata's preblended CHEM+NECT line of flexibel film packaged solutions used for chromatography by pharmaceutical, biotech, and research labs.
Under the agreement, Chata becomes a nonexclusive distributor of Honeywell's pre-blended chromatography solutions, utilizing Honeywell's packaging offerings.
"This agreement brings the best of two worlds to research and analytical laboratories," states global business manager for Honeywell Burdick & Jackson Scott Gaddis. "Burdick and Jackson has a long history and solid reputation for producing high-purity solvents and reagents with the consistent quality demanded by researchers and laboratories. Chata's unique, pre-packaged solutions and patented deilvery systems elminate the antiquated, time-consuming, and expensive manual preparation of chemical solutions."
Chata CEO Jerald Kuiken said, "Chata has long been a leader in prepackaged chemicals and will now offer the highest purity chemicals from one of the leading names in the business."
Poling elected Grace Davison vice president
W.R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Maryland) announced that Gregory E. Poling has been elected vice president of Grace Davison Chemicals. He also was elected a corporate vice president by the Board of Directors of Grace.
Poling has been with Davison since 1999 and most recently was president of the Davison Chemicals specialty materials business.
AI and GenAI Applications to Help Optimize Purification and Yield of Antibodies From Plasma
October 31st 2024Deriving antibodies from plasma products involves several steps, typically starting from the collection of plasma and ending with the purification of the desired antibodies. These are: plasma collection; plasma pooling; fractionation; antibody purification; concentration and formulation; quality control; and packaging and storage. This process results in a purified antibody product that can be used for therapeutic purposes, diagnostic tests, or research. Each step is critical to ensure the safety, efficacy, and quality of the final product. Applications of AI/GenAI in many of these steps can significantly help in the optimization of purification and yield of the desired antibodies. Some specific use-cases are: selecting and optimizing plasma units for optimized plasma pooling; GenAI solution for enterprise search on internal knowledge portal; analysing and optimizing production batch profitability, inventory, yields; monitoring production batch key performance indicators for outlier identification; monitoring production equipment to predict maintenance events; and reducing quality control laboratory testing turnaround time.
Profiling Volatile Organic Compounds in Whisky with GC×GC–MS
November 1st 2024Researchers from Austria, Greece, and Italy conducted a study to analyze volatile organic compounds (VOCs) present in Irish and Scotch whiskys using solid-phase microextraction (SPME) Arrow with comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC×GC–MS) to examine the organoleptic characteristics that influence the taste of spirits.
GC–TOF-MS Finds 250 Volatile Compounds in E-Cigarette Liquids
November 1st 2024A study has used gas chromatography coupled to a time-of-flight mass spectrometer to build an electron ionization mass spectra database of more than 250 chemicals classified as either volatile or semi-volatile compounds. An additional, confirmatory layer of liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry analysis was subsequently performed.
