Whether you like a good ten hours, or you can cope with just six a night — we all need sleep. The average person spends nearly a third of their life asleep in fact. And most sleep takes place on your bed — or more specifically — on your mattress. People tend to invest in [Read More...]
Chromatography is a laboratory technique used for separation of mixture and utilized in different ways. Chromatography is an essential technique for life science research, agriculture, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. Chromatography technique isolates the mixture into two phases specifically mobile phase and stationary phase. The mobile phase travels through the stationary phase by taking compound to [Read More...]
WINFIELD – Pace Analytical Services is suing Upper Kanawha Valley Development Corp. after it claims it failed to pay for work performed and was unjustly enriched at Pace’s expense. Pace and UKVD entered into a contract in which Pace agreed to perform testing services for the defendant and the defendant agreed to pay Pace for [Read More...]
Process chromatography has become of the most enabling technologies in biopharmaceutical downstream processing and is used to purify small to large molecules for further use, rather than analysis. Various biopharmaceutical companies need high performance and high throughput on a large scale which can be achieved with the help of process-scale bioseparations. The prime purpose of [Read More...]
A researcher at the University of Bayreuth in Germany has found a fascinating example of plants being deceptive to ensure that they are pollinated — and it is thanks to the help of gas chromatography with electroantennographic (GC-EAD) and mass spectrometry (GC-MS). So, let’s look at the deceptive plants and find out how chromatography helped. [Read More...]
The state’s strict rules around pesticide testing for Oregon marijuana are hurting its fledgling recreational industry and could mean a $10-million drop in tax revenue from sales in the fourth quarter - or at least that’s the argument in a report released this week by those in the business. The Oregon Health Authority began enforcing [Read More...]
Election Day 2016 resulted in historic gains for state level cannabis prohibition reform. Voters in California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada chose to legalize adult use of Cannabis sp. and its extracts while even traditionally conservative states like Arkansas, Florida, Montana and North Dakota enacted policy allowing for medical use. More than half of the United States [Read More...]
Man’s best friend helps us in all kinds of ways. Assistance dogs for people with sight problems; dogs who can help to detect explosives; and search and rescue dogs who help us to find people who are lost. Now a researcher at the University of Melbourne in Australia has found another way that our canine [Read More...]
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the opening of a new $14.7 million, 53,000 square-foot Technology Center in Folsom, California. The new building, which is adjacent to Agilent's existing facility at 91 Blue Ravine Road, will house approximately 60 additional staff. The new facility includes a state-of-the-art customer applications laboratory and [Read More...]
It is 65 years since the film “The Man in the White Suit” gave people a glimpse into the life of an organic chemist. The film starred Alec Guinness as a young research chemist who invents an everlasting fibre that repels dirt and never wears out. But it is the scenes filmed in the chemistry [Read More...]