High Tech Separations News articles from June 1999

High Tech Separations News archives from June 1999

EM Science Produces Wide Range of Phases.
June 19, 1999... As a source for chiral separation commercial phases, EM Science (480 Democrat Rd., Gibbstown, NJ 08027; Tel: 800/222-0342) feels unappreciated in its home country. "Our phases are bigger in Europe," says Fred Rabel, marketing manager at the...

NOVEL TECHNIQUES: Phage Display Helps Select Enzymes.
June 19, 1999... An advanced form of phage display technology from Dyax Corp. (Bldg. 600, 5th Fl., One Kendall Sq., Cambridge, MA 02139; Tel: 617/225-2500, Fax: 617/225-2501) allows engineering and producing highly selective industrial enzymes with improved...

LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY Columns Analyze without Ions.
June 19, 1999... Restek (110 Benner Circle, Bellefonte, PA; Tel: 814/353-1300) is promoting its Allure and Ultra liquid chromatography (LC) columns designed for use with mass spectrometry (MS) with better results, the firm says, than ion exchange or...

Hybrid Particle Packing Extends Performance.
June 19, 1999... Waters Corp. (34 Maple St., Milford, MA 01757-3696; Tel: 508/478-2000, Fax: 508/872-1990) has introduced its XTerra Columns, which use an organic/inorganic hybrid packing that extends the limits of high performance liquid chromatography...

Pre-packed Columns Are Pre-tested.
June 19, 1999... Biotage (765 Concord Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138-1044; Tel: 617/225- 2500) has introduced its BioFlash columns, designed for the separation of biomolecules from proteins to plasmids and antibodies to oligonucleotides - a new class of compounds...

CHIRAL CHROMATOGRAPHY Preparative Detector Improves Accuracy.
June 19, 1999... JM Science (355 Lang Blvd, Grand Island, NY 14072; Tel: 716/774-8706), is distributing a separation system that joins 3 words rarely used to describe one device - preparative scale chiral detector. More specifically, JM Science's detector...

Jasco Gives Face Lift to Detector Series.
June 19, 1999... The Jasco, Inc. (8649 Commerce Dr., Easton, MD 21601; Tel: 800/333- 5272, Tel: 410/822-1220, Fax: 410/822-7526) has improved software, autosamplers, and added detector options on its LC 900 Series detectors. The souped-up version is called...

GEL ELECTROPHORESIS: Visible Clipper Yields Two-Fold Multiplexing.
June 19, 1999... Visible Genetics, Inc. (700 Bay St., Suite 1000, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1Z6; Tel: 416/813-3240, Fax: 416/813-3250) has been able to achieve 2-fold multiplexing of DNA sequencing ladders using its MicroGene Clipper sequencer. To...

QuickPoint Quickly Separates Nucleic Acids.
June 19, 1999... The QuickPoint Rapid Nucleic Acid Separation System from Novex (1040 Roselle St., San Diego, CA 92121; Tel: 619/452-6634, Tel: 800/456-6839, Fax: 619/452-6635) is a urea-based polyacrylamide precast gel system that can separate more than 60...

CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS Screener Identifies Samples with Hits.
June 19, 1999... Cetek Assay screening technology from Cetek Corp. (420 Maple St., Marlborough, MA 01752-6202; Tel: 508/229-8900, Fax: 508/229-2344) enhances the ability of researchers to discover valuable "hits" that other assays miss, eliminating...

Detector Integrated into Microchip.
June 19, 1999... Chemist Richard A. Mathies (Tel: 510/642-4192) and his colleagues at the University of California (Department of Chemistry, Berkeley, CA 94720; Tel: 510/642-5882, Fax: 510/642-3599) have designed a thin- film microelectrochemical detector...

Pharmaceutical Kits Target More Molecules.
June 19, 1999... J&W Scientific (91 Blue Ravine Rd., Folson, CA 95630-4714; Tel: 800/223-3424, Fax: 916/985-1101) has a series of capillary electrophoresis (CE) kits specially designed for some target molecules increasingly used for pharmaceutical...

INDUSTRY NEWS: OI Analytical Acquires Autosampler Rights.
June 19, 1999... O.I. Corp. (151 Graham Rd., College Station, TX 77842; Tel: 409/690-1711, Fax: 409/690-0440) recently purchased manufacturing and marketing rights for a headspace autosampler from Jena, Germany-based Analytik Jena GmbH, giving O.I. Corp....

Beckman Receives Synchron Order.
June 19, 1999... Beckman Coulter, Inc. (2500 Harbor Blvd, Fullerton, CA 92634-3100; Tel: 800/742-2345, Fax: 800/643-4366) has contracted to supply about $20.7 million worth of diagnostic instruments and DataLink computers to Toronto, Ontario-based Canadian...

EG&G Named Business Partner of the Year.
June 19, 1999... Continuing to set a good track record, EG&G Services, a division of EG&G (45 William St., Wellesley, MA 02181; Tel: 781/237-5100, Fax: 781/431-4255) won the Treasury Department's Large Business Partner of the Year Award for the second...

Pall Wins Contract with Pittsburgh.
June 19, 1999... The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority has selected the Pall Corp. (2200 Northern Blvd., East Hills, NY 11548; Tel: 516/484-5400, Tel: 800/645-6532, Fax: 516/484-5228) membrane microfiltration system for a 20 million gal/day treatment...

Shareholders Hold Fate of Rohm & Haas Merger.
June 19, 1999... Now that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has cleared the merger of the 2 chemical giants, Rohm and Haas (100 Independence Mall W.; Philadelphia, PA 19106; Tel: 215/592-3000, Fax: 215/592-3377) and Morton International, Inc. (100 N....

HP Markets GC-MS with Apex Product.
June 19, 1999... Hewlett-Packard (HP, 3000 Hanover St., Palo Alto, CA 94304; Tel: 650/857-1501) has contracted with Apex Technologies (7843 Palace Dr., Bldg. D, Cincinnati, OH 45249; Tel: 513/469-9848, Fax: 513/469-068) to market Apex's ProSep products with...

ADVANCED FILTRATION: Scaleability Made Easy with UpScale Program.
June 19, 1999... The UpScale Program from Pall BioPharmaceuticals (2200 Northern Blvd., East Hills, NY 11548; Tel: 516/484-5400, Fax: 516/625-3610) streamlines the scaleability of direct flow filtration from benchtop- through volume-scale production,...