Varian has announced it is to acquire Polymer Laboratories for $42
million (€35.7 million)in a transaction that adds consumables and
instrumentation for Gel Permeation Chromatography (GPC) analysis to
its product portfolio.
Chemical analysis specialists, Metrohm, have introduced its latest
ion chromatography system, which enables Gentamicin determination
without the complex set up that is characteristic of the current
HPLC method.
Researchers have developed a unique approach that predicts protein
separation behaviour. The approach may reduce the time it takes to
bring pharmaceuticals to market and may have significant
implications for drug discovery.
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the US have
developed a method to predict protein separation behaviour -
directly from protein structure - that could reduce the time it
takes to bring pharmaceuticals to market.
Chiral Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Daicel Chemical
Industries, of Japan, has licensed a chromatography column
technology that promises to be particularly useful for the
separation of chiral drugs.
Nanostream, has introduced a fraction collector add-on to its
Veloce system, transforming it into a front-end sample preparation
tool that lets users rapidly perform MS assays.
Companies that want to develop systems that comply with the US Food
and Drug Administration's PAT (process analytical technology)
recommendations can tap into a new modular fluid handling and
measurement concept in development...
Rohm and Haas' Advanced Biosciences division has launched a new
product in its Amberchrom range of chromatographic resins that can
replace and improve on silica in the final stages of biologics
purification.
Eksigent Technologies introduces a new range of software drivers
and hardware accessories that ensure sample delivery at a pace that
improves the throughput of its eight-channel HPLC system.
Peakdale Molecular and Dynamic Extractions are to collaborate on
the development of a new separation technology with applications in
drug discovery, development and manufacture.
A new way of ensuring that pharmaceutical production lines are free
of cleaning agents has been developed by Smiths Detection and Dober
Group, reports Phil Taylor.
ESA will officially launch its universal detector for use with high
performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), based on a technology
called CAD (charged aserosol detector), in Europe at the HPLC 2005
exhibition in Stockholm in June.
Selerity Technologies introduces a new silica-based stationary
phase that can withstand temperatures of up to 200ºC, overcoming
the extreme temperature barrier that has hampered HPLC technology
progression.
Agilent Technologies claims a 95 per cent sample recovery with the
introduction of its liquid chromatography column (LC) that
separates and desalts protein samples. This enables proteomics
researchers to detect and identify potential...
Agilent Technologies has introduced the first high-performance
liquid chromatography (HPLC)-chip/mass spectrometry (MS) system for
protein identification. This breakthrough microfluidics-based LC/MS
technology is expected to significantly...
ESA has introduced what it claims is the first true universal
detector for use with high performance liquid chromatography
(HPLC), a based on a technology called CAD (charged aserosol
detector).
Polymer Laboratories has launched a range of capillary and micro
chromatography columns for small scale chromatography which use
chemically stable polymeric particles to suit demanding high
sensitivity separations in drug discovery...
Waters has started shipping its new 'ultra performance liquid
chromatography' (UPLC) system AcQuity, first introduced to the
laboratory sector at the Pittcon exhibition earlier this year and
the winner of the gold award...
Switzerland's Metrohm has developed a new delivery system for
reagents used in ion chromatography that is designed to reduce
wastage, improve safety in the lab and does away with the need to
dispose of spent eluent cartridges.
Sigma-Aldrich has expanded its contract development and
manufacturing for active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) at its
Buchs production site in Switzerland.
A microfluidic analytical system developed by Nanostream has been
used to assess the purity of oligonucleotides around 16 times as
quickly as conventional high performance liquid chromatography.
An analysis technology developed by Viscotek can slice days off the
time it takes to carry out research and quality control into drug
delivery systems based on polymers.
Germany's Heraeus Noblelight has acquired UK company Cathodeon in a
move that allows it to broaden the range of optic lamps it supplies
for analytical machines.
Germany's Merck KGaA has almost completed the construction of a
€200 million plant that will provide a significant increase in the
company's organic synthesis business.
Agilent launches two new products at the ongoing Drug Discovery
Technology meeting, including an LC column to remove high-abundance
proteins from serum and an oligonucleotide mouse microarray to aid
in toxicogenomics research.
