New Chromatography Columns and Accessories at Pittcon 2008: Part II Apr 1, 2008 By: Ronald E. Majors

This month's installment of "Column Watch" is the second part of a two-part series in which columnist Ron Majors examines the trends and highlights in columns and consumables at Pittcon 2008.

New Chromatography Columns and Accessories at Pittcon 2008: Part I Mar 1, 2008 By: Ronald E. Majors

This month's installment of "Column Watch" is the first of a two-part series in which columnist Ron Majors examines the trends and highlights in columns and consumables at Pittcon 2008.

Recent Developments in High-Abundance Protein Removal Techniques Mar 1, 2008 By: Tim Wehr

In the last year, two new protein depletion products have been introduced, and these will be the focus of this month's installment of "Directions in Discovery."

BMC Pediatrics reports on a study characterizing total homocysteine (tHcy) levels at birth in preterm and term infants and identifing associations with intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) and other neonatal outcomes such as mortality, sepsis, necrotizing enterocolitis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, and thrombocytopenia.

Immunosorbents for Selective Sample Preparation of Complex Mixtures Dec 1, 2007 By: Ronald E. Majors

In this month?s installment, columnist Ron Majors covers the field of immunoextraction, a technique that employs immobilized antibodies to selectively capture specific analytes using molecular recognition via antibody?antigen interactions. Recently, the introduction of commercial products for specific high-volume environmental and food safety applications has spurred further applications of this technique.

Polymer-based columns still are widely used in size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) and ion chromatography-ion-exchange chromatography - they have always been used in these modes, even back in 1987.

Assay Depot, an Internet marketplace for drug discovery services, today announced that Nanostream, provider of chromatography products and services to increase productivity in analytical laboratories at pharmaceutical and biotech companies, will join the company?s service provider network.

HPLC 2007 was held in Ghent, Belgium in June. Last month, columnist Ron Majors summarized some the important column developments as well as other Symposium highlights. This month, he winds up coverage with additional highlights in the areas of technology and applications. Among the topics covered are stationary phase preparation and characterization, multi-dimensional and comprehensive LC, temperature studies, detectors and an application overview.

This month, Chromatography Online's Technology Forum focuses on the topic of Gas Chromatography (GC). Joining us for this discussion is Sky Countryman, GC Product Manager at Phenomenex; Gary Harland, Tandem Quadrupole MS Product Manager at Waters; a Team of Experts from Thermo Fisher Scientific; and Tom Gluodenis and Terry L. Sheehan from Agilent Technologies Life Sciences & Chemical Analysis Group.