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Sample Processing at Pittcon® 2014
Tuesday, May 06, 2014
Application Note
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
The tenfold increase in speed for the analytics (GC, HPLC, and SFC [supercritical fluid chromatography], all with MS) over the last decade has shifted the choke point in many workflows from analytics ... read more
Improving the Crystallization Process for Optimal Drug Development
Friday, March 28, 2014
Application Note
Michael Collazo Soheila Vaezeslami Sarah Burl
Macromolecular X-ray crystallography is an important and powerful technique in drug discovery. Studying the specific interactions of a particular drug with its protein target at the atomic level can ... read more
Pittcon 2013®: Developments in Liquid Chromatography
Monday, May 13, 2013
Technical Article
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
The first commercial liquid chromatograph was probably an amino acid analyzer. These ion exchange chromatographs were so specialized that they had almost no impact on chemical analysis outside of ... read more
Advances in Gas Chromatography Instrumentation at Pittcon® 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
Technical Article
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
The buzzwords for Pittcon® 2013 in gas chromatography instrumentation were “smaller,” “portable,” and “helium.” Despite the fact that some of the major vendors did not exhibit, others were on hand ... read more
What’s New in Optical Spectroscopy at Pittcon® 2013?
Friday, May 10, 2013
Technical Article
Mark Fisher
Soon after the first spectrophotometer was built, the challenge of improving it began. How could we make spectrophotometers better? Could we make them smaller, faster, or perhaps improve the ... read more
Advances in Mass Spectrometry at Pittcon® 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
Technical Article
Brian Musselman
This has been a busy year for mass spectrometry companies and with the Triennial International Conference on Mass Spectrometry occurring last fall. This year at Pittcon®, several new high-end mass ... read more
Exhibition of Chromatography Columns at Pittcon® 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
Technical Article
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
The technology and market for liquid chromatography columns continue to mature, with applications-specific columns on the rise. The chromatography columns target specific assays in the clinical ... read more
Awarding Innovation: The Pittcon® 2013 Editors’ Awards
Friday, May 10, 2013
Technical Article
Marian Nardozzi
Pittcon® offers many different award ceremonies for outstanding scientific achievement to members of the scientific community; however, there is only one award for innovations in instrumentation. The... read more
Sample Prep for LC, GC, and SFC at Pittcon® 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
Technical Article
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
At Pittcon® 2013, sample prep stood out as a major focus, perhaps because of the few advances in chromatography instrumentation. In addition, some sample preparation is spilling over into other ... read more
Neutron Crystallography Contributes to Drug Design
Monday, January 07, 2013
Technical Article
Zoe Fisher
Carbonic anhydrases are a large group of enzymes that are expressed in humans. Carbonic anhydrase (CA) catalyzes the reversible hydration of CO2 to make bicarbonate and a proton. As such, this enzyme ... read more
New Instrumentation and Applications at HPLC 2012
Friday, August 10, 2012
Technical Article
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
A marketplace is usually dynamic, with a cross-current of disparate interests meeting to find mutual satisfaction. read more
$Increasing Application of X-Ray Powder Diffraction in the Pharmaceutical Industry$
Increasing Application of X-Ray Powder Diffraction in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Application Note
Brian Litteer Detlef Beckers
X-ray powder diffraction has recently been propelled to the forefront as an analytical tool in the pharmaceutical industry for a wide range of applications. read more