calendar9 May 2017
Volume 13 Issue 7
The Column

9 May 2017 Issue

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Modern trends in ion chromatography

Investigating cheetah metabolite profiles using GC–MS

Adrian Tordiffe from the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Pretoria in South Africa, is working to establish baseline metabolic profiles for captive and free-ranging cheetahs to investigate the unusual medical conditions that the animals develop in captivity. He spoke to The Column about his work and about the role that chromatography plays.

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Mistakes with matrix effects in blood alcohol tests

HPLC 2017 preview

A preview of HPLC 2017, which will be held from 18 to 22 June 2017 at the Prague Congress Centre, Prague, Czech Republic.

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Monitoring air pollution

Incognito’s unsettling statistics

Incognito delves into some statistics on chromatography research, and is unsettled by what he finds.

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News update: The latest research and company news

Analyzing methanol in biodiesel using headspace GC

An autosampler for a standard gas chromatography (GC) or GC–mass spectrometry (MS) system was adapted to perform simple static headspace sampling, instead of using a separate, and potentially more complicated, headspace sampling unit.

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News update: The latest research and company news

Applying GC–HRAM for drugs of abuse

A full-scan gas chromatography (GC) coupled to high resolution accurate mass (HRAM) approach for the profiling of known and unknown drugs of abuse is presented.

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News update: The latest research and company news

ISPAC 2017 preview

The International Symposium on Polymer Analysis and Characterization (ISPAC) will be held in Linz, Austria, on the 11–14 June 2017. This preview offers a flavour of what to expect.

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News update: The latest research and company news

News update: The latest news

The latest research news and news in brief are featured in this issue.

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