Following the 2010 3-Day BMSS meeting in Cardiff, the same venue was chosen again to host the 2011 event. As a non-university venue there were misgivings about initially making such a move for the soc...
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High-pressure gas cylinders are a common sight in many laboratories: a default for supplying analytical instruments with their gas requirements, high-pressure gas cylinders are familiar and provide th...
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In analytical chemistry, sample preparation can be as simple as adding a solvent or as complex as performing chemical reactions to improve the instrumental measurements that follow. While sample prepa...
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High field asymmetric-waveform ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS), also commonly referred to as differential mobility spectrometry (DMS), is an atmospheric pressure gas phase separation technique which...
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Analysing organic matrices for trace elements is a challenging proposition and frequently involves complex sample preparation steps. This is time consuming and potentially risks introducing contaminan...
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Today Hydrophilic Interaction Liquid Chromatography (HILIC) is by far the fastest growing HPLC separation mode, currently being used by almost 20% of the HPLC instrument owners [1], although the relat...
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The "6th International MS Symposium" held in Manchester, UK 12-14th April was the latest in an occasional series of scientific meetings initiated (by Micromass) in 1998. Sponsorship of the meetings ha...
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The presence of trace metals in volatile organic solvents, even at trace level concentrations, has been associated with poisoning of industrial catalysts and subsequent contamination of final products...
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TYPE C™ silica is a relatively new chromatographic material that has been finding ever-increasing use in the last few years. The properties exhibited by these stationary phases are often significantly...
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There have been numerous reports in the news over the last few years of new drugs of abuse becoming available on the UK market. These have included mephedrone, benzylpiperazine and the so-called synth...
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Synthetic Oligonucleotides as Therapeutic Medicines
Synthetic oligonucleotides are an exciting new class of biomolecules capable of treating many disorders, which are currently not amenable to existi...
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A dramatic explosion of interest in the clinical effects of Vitamin D and its metabolites in the past 5-10 years has stimulated a massive increase in requests for the measurement of 25 Hydroxy Vitamin...
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British Mass Spectrometry Society - Annual 3-day Meeting at Cardiff City Hall, 11th - 14th September 2011
After the tremendous success last year of their first conference out of an academic setting...
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Have Large Cumbersome Air Blown Gas Chromatography Ovens Had Their Day? Since the late 50’s, conventional gas chromatographs (GC) have been designed in much the same way, with a heated circulating air...
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The Chromatographic Society’s Spring Symposium and Annual General Meeting will be held at the Novartis site in Horsham (West Sussex) on Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th May 2011. The theme for the mee...
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