3-Monochloropropane-1,2-diol (3-MCPD), 2-monochloropropane-1,3-diol (2-MCPD) and glycidol are known as contaminants in foodstuffs due to manufacturing. MCPD fatty acids may occur during the refinement process of oils and fats at high temperature or in the presence of chloride containing salts. However, refinement is an essential chemical and physical process. Only through this kind of treatment with high temperature undesired odorants and flavoring substances as well as possible traces of toxic compounds (pesticides, heavy metals or mycotoxins)...
Markes International Ltd has unveiled a new version of its award-winning sample extraction and enrichment platform at Pittcon 2020 in Chicago. When launched at Analytica in 2018, Centri marked a breakthrough in versatility and performance for the automated sampling and preconcentration of volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs and VOCs) from solid, liquid and gaseous samples, prior to GC–MS analysis....
JEOL USA, a leader in developing instruments used to advance scientific research and technology, is pleased to showcase the latest updates to its core product range at Pittcon 2020. JEOL has 70 years of expertise in the field of electron microscopy, more than 60 years in mass spectrometry and NMR spectrometry, and more than 50 years of e-beam lithography leadership. JEOL expanded its mass spectrometer product line with the development of a GC-triple quadrupole mass spectrometer system....
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and NanoPin Technologies, Inc., the developer of the novel NanoPin diagnostic platform for rapid and quantified results from patient blood samples, have entered into a collaborative relationship to advance blood-based infectious disease detection technology through the development of highly sensitive liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based workflows...
Thermo Scientific Chromeleon 7.3 Chromatography Data System (CDS) software reduces administrative costs and improves laboratory productivity and regulatory compliance. Laboratory scientists and IT experts in industrial, chemical and pharmaceutical fields can benefit from improved productivity and reduced system administration costs with a new enterprise CDS software that can leverage cloud technology to standardize systems for increased connectivity, flexibility and security....
New Thermo Scientific Vanquish Core HPLC System maximizes the delivery of precise results with simple, seamless method transfer. Pharmaceutical, food and industrial laboratories can optimize their routine testing and quality control (QC) workflows with an enhanced high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) system that delivers maximized instrument uptime and precision for any operator, regardless of experience....
Biotage AB (Biotage), is pleased to announce the launch of a Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) software upgrade for Biotage® Extrahera™, their flagship automated sample preparation instrument for Supported Liquid Extraction (SLE), Solid Phase Extraction (SPE), Phospholipid Depletion (PLD) and Protein Precipitation (PPT). Biotage customers can now harness the system’s advanced automation tools with the Good Laboratory Practices required by today’s modern laboratories....
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, has announced that several of its analytical instruments and solutions have received industry recognition through multiple respected awards. These award-wining analytical solutions are enabling scientists and organizations to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer by unlocking a greater understanding of the human proteome, advancing the development of novel biotherapeutics and enhancing the analysis of time-critical samples within routine testing environments....
Markes International will be launching a range of new products for sample preparation at Pittcon 2020, which will be held at McCormick Place, Chicago, from 1–5 March. On display, the newest version of its successful Centri® multi-mode sample automation and concentration platform for GC–MS. The TD100-xr DAAMS, an automated thermal desorption unit accommodating DAAMS tubes, and a thermal desorption autosampler for DAAMS tubes, which adds to the company’s popular UNITY-xr thermal desorption instrument....
'Metrohm' has always meant state-of-the-art technology for the chemical laboratory. For many scientists, we have also been a preferred partner to help find or develop solutions for specific application challenges. We would like to share the highlights of our application know-how with the world, and that is why, as of this year, we will start blogging about many interesting topics geared towards our scientific readership....
Q-Fil Syringe Filters set the new Quality standard for today’s laboratory syringe filters. Manufactured from the highest quality medical grade, high density polypropylene. Q-Fil Syringe Filters provide excellent chemical compatibility with acids, alcohols, bases, ethers, glycols, ketones and oils. Every colour-coded filter is printed with details of the membrane material and its pore size on the outside of the filter and every box is labelled with the batch number making them ideal for traceability, GLPs and validation purposes....
GCxGC-MS is the ideal analytical technique to accommodate the complexity of the samples due to its enhanced peak capacity and sensitivity. For quantitative purposes, and when using flow modulation, splitting to a FID is a logical choice. Sample preparation and sample introduction introduce further challenges due to the complex nature of the samples....
Porvair Sciences announce Microluteä PLR - a new benchmark product for phospholipid removal. The 96-well microplate provides effective removal (>99%) of phospholipids and proteins with higher levels of reproducibility from plasma and serum samples while maintaining maximum recovery of target analytes. Phospholipid-based matrix effects are a major source of variability and inaccuracy in bioanalytical mass spectrometry (MS) analysis....
Testa Analytical Solutions e.K. has launched the new Particle Explorer software suite for its popular BI-200SM light scattering goniometer system. The new software suite has been designed to enable even occasional users to simply access the unmatched research grade performance and extensive operational versatility of the BI-200SM in one convenient user interface. All Particle Explorer software modules are easily accessible and packed with a plethora of new and exciting features....
Markes International Ltd has entered into a licensing and supply agreement with JP Scientific Ltd, producer and patent holder of thin-film solid-phase microextraction (TF-SPME), allowing Markes to supply the novel sampling device worldwide for a wide range of applications. TF-SPME is a sampling technique that uses carbon mesh sheets impregnated with sorbent phase(s). It is similar to the well-known technique of SPME....
The MiniVap® Nitrogen Blowdown evaporator from Porvair Sciences is purpose designed for research and development departments where low numbers of individual microplates or vials need drying. The MiniVap® is simple to operate and maintain. Installation requires only connection to a gas supply and standard mains socket. With manual control of the needle depth, gas temperature and flow rate, it allows fine control and quicker drying times than other standard methods....
For more than 100 years MACHEREY-NAGEL has represented high quality, innovative, and reliable products for biomolecular and chemical analysis. Greyhound Chromatography is delighted to be recognised as a global distributor for Macherey-Nagel’s range of products. Macherey - Nagel’s comprehensive portfolio includes products for Filtration, Rapid Tests, Water Analysis, Chromatography, and Bioanalysis....
Waters Corporation has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Andrew Alliance, an innovator in specialty laboratory automation technology, including software and robotics. Andrew Alliance’s cloud-native software platform and modern interface dramatically improves the use of automation technology, enabling more scientists to realize the advantages of repeatability and performance for both routine and complex laboratory workflows....
Hot on the heels of its new site-opening in Waterloo (Canada), laboratory instrument provider SepSolve Analytical Ltd has relocated its Cambridgeshire headquarters to a new, larger premises. “Our new Peterborough premises are three times larger than the previous site”, said Bob Green, Director of SepSolve. “Having grown so rapidly over the last two years in particular, we’re very relieved to have the extra space, not just to accommodate our growing staff numbers, but also to enable....
Thermo Fisher Scientific and Agilent Technologies are continuing their agreement to the industry-wide Instrument Control Exchange Program (ICEP) – fostering compatibility among key vendors’ instrumentation and chromatography data systems (CDS). Organizations across the life sciences and applied industries will continue to benefit from the ability to select the hardware and software that most appropriately meets their application and business needs through the sustained involvement of key vendors....
In response to the ever-increasing demand in new drug discovery and development, medicinal chemistry has progressed at a fast pace during the last ten years. To obtain a better understanding of the chemicals that are being researched, more efforts are paid to the analysis and purification of numerous compounds or polymer-bound compounds. As a professional medicinal chemistry expert as well as a leading practitioner, BOC Sciences....
Testa Analytical Solutions reports on considerable interest from protein scientists to use Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) as a tool for screening for the presence of aggregates as it is extremely sensitive to these larger compounds. Applications Lab Manager - Raffaele Carano said "Protein aggregation is a common challenge in the manufacturing of biological products. Protein scientists particularly like DLS because it provides them with a simple, fast and non-destructive test for aggregate detection....
3-Monochloropropane-1,2-diol (3-MCPD), 2-monochloropropane-1,3-diol (2-MCPD) and glycidol are known as contaminants in foodstuffs due to manufacturing. MCPD fatty acids may occur during the refinement process of oils and fats at high temperature or in the presence of chloride containing salts. However, refinement is an essential chemical and physical process. Only through this kind of treatment with high temperature undesired odorants and flavoring substances as well as possible traces of toxic compounds (pesticides, heavy metals or mycotoxins)...
Markes International Ltd has unveiled a new version of its award-winning sample extraction and enrichment platform at Pittcon 2020 in Chicago. When launched at Analytica in 2018, Centri marked a breakthrough in versatility and performance for the automated sampling and preconcentration of volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs and VOCs) from solid, liquid and gaseous samples, prior to GC–MS analysis....
JEOL USA, a leader in developing instruments used to advance scientific research and technology, is pleased to showcase the latest updates to its core product range at Pittcon 2020. JEOL has 70 years of expertise in the field of electron microscopy, more than 60 years in mass spectrometry and NMR spectrometry, and more than 50 years of e-beam lithography leadership. JEOL expanded its mass spectrometer product line with the development of a GC-triple quadrupole mass spectrometer system....
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and NanoPin Technologies, Inc., the developer of the novel NanoPin diagnostic platform for rapid and quantified results from patient blood samples, have entered into a collaborative relationship to advance blood-based infectious disease detection technology through the development of highly sensitive liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based workflows...
Thermo Scientific Chromeleon 7.3 Chromatography Data System (CDS) software reduces administrative costs and improves laboratory productivity and regulatory compliance. Laboratory scientists and IT experts in industrial, chemical and pharmaceutical fields can benefit from improved productivity and reduced system administration costs with a new enterprise CDS software that can leverage cloud technology to standardize systems for increased connectivity, flexibility and security....
New Thermo Scientific Vanquish Core HPLC System maximizes the delivery of precise results with simple, seamless method transfer. Pharmaceutical, food and industrial laboratories can optimize their routine testing and quality control (QC) workflows with an enhanced high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) system that delivers maximized instrument uptime and precision for any operator, regardless of experience....
Biotage AB (Biotage), is pleased to announce the launch of a Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) software upgrade for Biotage® Extrahera™, their flagship automated sample preparation instrument for Supported Liquid Extraction (SLE), Solid Phase Extraction (SPE), Phospholipid Depletion (PLD) and Protein Precipitation (PPT). Biotage customers can now harness the system’s advanced automation tools with the Good Laboratory Practices required by today’s modern laboratories....
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, has announced that several of its analytical instruments and solutions have received industry recognition through multiple respected awards. These award-wining analytical solutions are enabling scientists and organizations to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer by unlocking a greater understanding of the human proteome, advancing the development of novel biotherapeutics and enhancing the analysis of time-critical samples within routine testing environments....
Markes International will be launching a range of new products for sample preparation at Pittcon 2020, which will be held at McCormick Place, Chicago, from 1–5 March. On display, the newest version of its successful Centri® multi-mode sample automation and concentration platform for GC–MS. The TD100-xr DAAMS, an automated thermal desorption unit accommodating DAAMS tubes, and a thermal desorption autosampler for DAAMS tubes, which adds to the company’s popular UNITY-xr thermal desorption instrument....
'Metrohm' has always meant state-of-the-art technology for the chemical laboratory. For many scientists, we have also been a preferred partner to help find or develop solutions for specific application challenges. We would like to share the highlights of our application know-how with the world, and that is why, as of this year, we will start blogging about many interesting topics geared towards our scientific readership....
Q-Fil Syringe Filters set the new Quality standard for today’s laboratory syringe filters. Manufactured from the highest quality medical grade, high density polypropylene. Q-Fil Syringe Filters provide excellent chemical compatibility with acids, alcohols, bases, ethers, glycols, ketones and oils. Every colour-coded filter is printed with details of the membrane material and its pore size on the outside of the filter and every box is labelled with the batch number making them ideal for traceability, GLPs and validation purposes....
GCxGC-MS is the ideal analytical technique to accommodate the complexity of the samples due to its enhanced peak capacity and sensitivity. For quantitative purposes, and when using flow modulation, splitting to a FID is a logical choice. Sample preparation and sample introduction introduce further challenges due to the complex nature of the samples....
Porvair Sciences announce Microluteä PLR - a new benchmark product for phospholipid removal. The 96-well microplate provides effective removal (>99%) of phospholipids and proteins with higher levels of reproducibility from plasma and serum samples while maintaining maximum recovery of target analytes. Phospholipid-based matrix effects are a major source of variability and inaccuracy in bioanalytical mass spectrometry (MS) analysis....
Testa Analytical Solutions e.K. has launched the new Particle Explorer software suite for its popular BI-200SM light scattering goniometer system. The new software suite has been designed to enable even occasional users to simply access the unmatched research grade performance and extensive operational versatility of the BI-200SM in one convenient user interface. All Particle Explorer software modules are easily accessible and packed with a plethora of new and exciting features....
Markes International Ltd has entered into a licensing and supply agreement with JP Scientific Ltd, producer and patent holder of thin-film solid-phase microextraction (TF-SPME), allowing Markes to supply the novel sampling device worldwide for a wide range of applications. TF-SPME is a sampling technique that uses carbon mesh sheets impregnated with sorbent phase(s). It is similar to the well-known technique of SPME....
The MiniVap® Nitrogen Blowdown evaporator from Porvair Sciences is purpose designed for research and development departments where low numbers of individual microplates or vials need drying. The MiniVap® is simple to operate and maintain. Installation requires only connection to a gas supply and standard mains socket. With manual control of the needle depth, gas temperature and flow rate, it allows fine control and quicker drying times than other standard methods....
For more than 100 years MACHEREY-NAGEL has represented high quality, innovative, and reliable products for biomolecular and chemical analysis. Greyhound Chromatography is delighted to be recognised as a global distributor for Macherey-Nagel’s range of products. Macherey - Nagel’s comprehensive portfolio includes products for Filtration, Rapid Tests, Water Analysis, Chromatography, and Bioanalysis....
Waters Corporation has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Andrew Alliance, an innovator in specialty laboratory automation technology, including software and robotics. Andrew Alliance’s cloud-native software platform and modern interface dramatically improves the use of automation technology, enabling more scientists to realize the advantages of repeatability and performance for both routine and complex laboratory workflows....
Hot on the heels of its new site-opening in Waterloo (Canada), laboratory instrument provider SepSolve Analytical Ltd has relocated its Cambridgeshire headquarters to a new, larger premises. “Our new Peterborough premises are three times larger than the previous site”, said Bob Green, Director of SepSolve. “Having grown so rapidly over the last two years in particular, we’re very relieved to have the extra space, not just to accommodate our growing staff numbers, but also to enable....
Thermo Fisher Scientific and Agilent Technologies are continuing their agreement to the industry-wide Instrument Control Exchange Program (ICEP) – fostering compatibility among key vendors’ instrumentation and chromatography data systems (CDS). Organizations across the life sciences and applied industries will continue to benefit from the ability to select the hardware and software that most appropriately meets their application and business needs through the sustained involvement of key vendors....
In response to the ever-increasing demand in new drug discovery and development, medicinal chemistry has progressed at a fast pace during the last ten years. To obtain a better understanding of the chemicals that are being researched, more efforts are paid to the analysis and purification of numerous compounds or polymer-bound compounds. As a professional medicinal chemistry expert as well as a leading practitioner, BOC Sciences....
Testa Analytical Solutions reports on considerable interest from protein scientists to use Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) as a tool for screening for the presence of aggregates as it is extremely sensitive to these larger compounds. Applications Lab Manager - Raffaele Carano said "Protein aggregation is a common challenge in the manufacturing of biological products. Protein scientists particularly like DLS because it provides them with a simple, fast and non-destructive test for aggregate detection....