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CHROMATOGRAPHY: SCF Advanced for Pharm Applications.
June 1, 2005... Pharmaceutical companies perform lots of molecular separations before they begin to synthesize the safest, purest, and most effective compound or sub-compound into a drug. Yet, despite the concern for safe processes, one of the most chemically benign separation processes has not been...

HYBRID TECHNIQUES: Ciphergen Issued SELDI-TOF-MS Patent.
June 1, 2005... Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc. (6611 Dumbarton, Circle, Fremont, CA 94555; Tel: 510/505-2100, Fax: 510/505-2101) reports the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company U.S. Patent 6,881,586, directed to methods of rapidly purifying proteins. The methods involve using...

SPECTROMETRY: Johns Hopkins Develops Facile Protein ID Tool.
June 1, 2005... Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Baltimore, MD) have developed a method for identifying specific proteins in whole cell extracts of microorganisms using traditional peptide mass fingerprinting (PMF). The key to the new method, according to the...

UCR Chemist Discovers Key Protein Location.
June 1, 2005... Researcher Kangling Zhang at the University of California, Riverside is part of a team that has discovered a new way that yeast governs genetic expression and repression, a finding that could be repeated in cells of other organisms. Zhang, an academic coordinator at the Mass Spectrometry...

SPECTROSCOPY: Magnet-Free High Resolution NMR.
June 1, 2005... A group of German researchers have shown that Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy could lead to a highly sensitive way to measure the magnetic fields around living creatures, sample the Earth's magnetic field, or test the composition of mineral oils in wells. The key to the advance...