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11 December 2015

LCGC TV: Robert T. Kennedy, Part 4: Analytical Chemists in the Field of Metabolomics
In this video, Robert T. Kennedy of the University of Michigan discusses the challenges of metabolomics – coping with data overload, dealing with small amounts of sample, and improving analysis through derivatization. He also talks about what it's like to be an analytical chemist in a biologist's world, and convincing the “omics” community of the importance of chromatography.
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The LCGC Blog: Why Column Screening Is Better than Mobile-Phase Screening for LC–MS Method Development
It is much more efficient to screen column chemistries to achieve optimum separations for a set of target analytes, than it is to play with different
mobile-phase conditions on a single column. Kevin Schug explains more.
 
 
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Environmental Forensics in the Workplace
Populations worldwide are exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) that can be harmful to human health. The Column spoke to David Megson from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, about recent developments in assessing human exposure to PCBs and chiral enantiomer fractions (EFs) in the workplace.
 
Featured Application Note
Triglycerides in Vegetable Oils using Gas Chromatography
Fats and oils are parts of normal daily consumptions and are considered as important nutrients in human diets. Almost all of commercially fats and oils of animal or plant origin consist of the lipid class called triglycerides (or triacylglycerols). GC is one of the most employed analytical techniques for analyzing lipid and fatty acids content of vegetable oils. Here are reported profiles of different vegetable oils triglycerides analysis, using efficient short MEGA-SE52 GC column; the use of shorter columns with Cold On-Column injection type allows to minimize the thermal degradation of these compounds thus permitting a correct quantification. Read more
 

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Meeting Review: Advances in Bio-Separations: Biologics Characterization from Cradle to Grave (Day Two)
The second part of the review on the two-day symposium focusing on the characterization of biopharmaceutical molecules at AstraZeneca's MedImmune site in Cambridge, UK.
 

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UHPLC for Queen Bees
Bees are vital to our food chain through their pollination of key crops. However, numbers are seriously declining as a result of climate change, changing land usage, and the use of pesticides. The role of the queen bee in the colony is also of great importance to the survival of the group.
 
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