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By: Dr Jayneil Patel, Head of Metabolite Interactions & Dr Induka Abeysena, Portfolio Manager – SP Genevac Introduction Penicillin, the first antibiotic, was discovered over 90 years ago

By: K.S.Trevett and C.M.McKeen (Eurogentec S.A) The first system tested was a 15-year old design known as the SF-60 and supplied by Genevac Ltd, whilst the second system was a modern computer-

By: Flavio Cinato – Research Scientist, Nerviano Medical Sciences, Milan, Italy Rob Darrington* – Product Manager, Genevac Ltd, Ipswich, UK Steve Knight – Marketing Manager, Genevac Ltd,

By: Dr Eleanor I Miller & Dr Simon P Elliott ROAR Forensics, Malvern, UK Introduction Hair analysis can be a useful tool in many forensic and clinical applications to establish drug use, t

By: Ian Bailey, Biopharma Process Systems Background: Why there is a need for the Exalt™ application Polymorph screening is an important stage of drug

By: A. Kaufmann; K. Maden and S. Walker Introduction Nitrofuran antibiotics were banned from use in the European Union [EU] in 1995 due to concerns that their residues were carcinogenic. In 20

By: Nicolas Falquet, Gilles d’Esperonnat & Rob Darrington Introduction Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are large class of compounds comprising two or more fused aromatic rings. P

By: Paula Clarke, Forensic Science Ireland. Alison Wake, Genevac Ltd. Introduction A method for the extraction of drugs of abuse from urine samples pertaining to drug facilitated sexual assault&nbs

By: Dr Induka Abeysena & Rob Darrington Introduction For many years lyophilisation, or freeze drying, has been used to dry samples in the laboratory. The technique is well researched

By: SP Genevac What do we mean by “High Boiling Point”? Usually we mean things with a boiling point significantly higher than water.The graph below shows a range of solvents, with two w

By: Rob Darrington, Product Manager, Genevac Ltd., Stephen Pickrahn, Senior Scientist, International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. Introduction In the quest to find novel flavor ingredients from na

By: Rob Darrington, Genevac Ltd., Ipswich, UK. Introduction Drying high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) purification fractions, principally comprising water and acetonitrile, is a rou

By: Sophie Mcdougall The effectiveness of ADME/Toxicology studies is, now more than ever, critical to the shortening the time-to-market of novel drugs. An ability to obtain rapidly accurate an

By: Dr Catrin Goebel Introduction The detection of the abuse of synthetic insulins by doping laboratories is likely to become a routine requirement. The World Anti-Doping Authority (WADA) code

By: Ngaio Richards, Steve Lancaster, Sarah Hall, Karen Scott Introduction Diclofenac (Figure 1) is a non-steroidal anti- inflammatory drug (NSAID) that is extensively used to treat pain a

By: Rob Darrington, Product Manager, Genevac Ltd., Paul de Fraine, Group Leader, Chem Tech Group Syngenta and Mike Jones, Group Leader, Scynexis Europe Ltd. Introduction In the modern purification

By: Peter Bennett & Ian Whitehall Introduction Changing sample vessel format is an area of Discovery research that can cause problems: sample tracking, sample loss and robotic referen

By: David Clayton, Stephen Knight Scientists working at the Great Lakes chemical company site in Manchester, UK have an interestingapproach to new product development. 

By: SP Genevac Many solvent evaporators are routinely sited inside fume extraction hoods because residual solvent vapour, remaining in the chamber at the end of a run, can expose the operator to un

By: Dr. Raffaele Faita, Dr. Agostino Brunetta Introduction Leochimica Laboratories were founded in 1980, and are at the cutting edge of research into newmethods for environmental analysis. Wor