Supelco SPE-Precipitation Technology Wins Award
Supelco, a division of Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, Missouri), announced that its HybridSPE-Precipitation technology has won the SelectScience.net 2009 Scientists? Choice Award for Best New Separations Product in 2008.
Supelco, a division of Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, Missouri), announced that its HybridSPE-Precipitation technology has won the SelectScience.net 2009 Scientists’ Choice Award for Best New Separations Product in 2008. The award was based on an independent poll of more than 25,000 scientists within the SelectScience.net community. The award was announced at Pittcon 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. The product combines protein precipitation with solid-phase extraction (SPE) for the targeted removal of phospholipids and proteins in biological plasma and serum. According to the company, the product includes zirconia-coated particles that exhibit selective affinity toward phospholipids and are nonselective for a range of basic, neutral, and acidic compounds.
The Chromatographic Society 2025 Martin and Jubilee Award Winners
December 6th 2024The Chromatographic Society (ChromSoc) has announced the winners of the Martin Medal and the Silver Jubilee Medal for 2025. Professor Bogusław Buszewski of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland, has been awarded the prestigious Martin Medal, and the 2025 Silver Jubilee Medal has been awarded to Elia Psillakis of the Technical University of Crete in Greece.
RAFA 2024 Highlights: Contemporary Food Contamination Analysis Using Chromatography
November 18th 2024A series of lectures focusing on emerging analytical techniques used to analyse food contamination took place on Wednesday 6 November 2024 at RAFA 2024 in Prague, Czech Republic. The session included new approaches for analysing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), polychlorinated alkanes (PCAS), Mineral Oil Hydrocarbons (MOH), and short- and medium-chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs and MCCPs).
