Let’s Have the Talk, the Procurement Talk
eProcurement, B2B, punchout, hosted catalogs. … You may have heard these terms thrown around but, for some reason, they do not sound appealing and certainly do not get much traction. Besides, what do ...
eProcurement, B2B, punchout, hosted catalogs. … You may have heard these terms thrown around but, for some reason, they do not sound appealing and certainly do not get much traction. Besides, what do ...
Chemical disinfectants used to protect municipal drinking water from potentially dangerous microbes can produce disinfection byproducts – oxyhalides (chlorite, chlorate, bromate, etc.) that are harmfu...
Sing along to "The 12 Days of Christmas" On the first day of Christmas my IC expert sent to me: One eluent water polisher On the second day of Christmas my IC expert sent to me: Two EGCs (eluent gener...
The holiday season is considered the best time for a family reunion. During the holidays, detaching from work stress and finding peace are the most important things you can do to recharge. It is time ...
Did someone say Christmas? Aside from presents, delicious food and fairy lights, why not treat your lab with all your chromatography essentials for a great price ahead of the new year? Our big end-of-...
Small but mighty. Whether it is your choice of chromatography vials, well plates or column chemistries, these everyday heroes have the power to make or break your analysis. Choosing the correct produc...
Hello, HPLC 2022! After a three-year hiatus, the HPLC conference is back and marks the 50th International Symposium and Exposition on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques. ...
Are your columns not lasting as long as you want? Are you struggling to identify what kills your column or how you can increase its lifetime? A new white paper describes what actions you can take to p...
Brine (salt water), the feedstock of the chlor-alkali industry, is used in the production of chlorine, caustic soda (sodium hydroxide), soda ash (sodium carbonate), hydrogen (hydrochloric acid) and a ...
At Thermo Fisher Scientific™, we have been at the forefront of proteomic research since the start. With our product and workflow innovations, we have provided researchers with unprecedented possibilit...
As a millennial, I’m very aware of the impact technology has on my generation and how it has shaped my expectations. Information is readily available and entertainment options are more convenient. For...
Have you ever been in a situation where you haven’t known how to start a new method? Staring into your column cabinet and wondering what would do the trick when it comes to separating even more peaks ...
Have you ever seen pressure fluctuations or retention time shifts in your HPLC that go away as suddenly as they appeared? Do you use buffers in your HPLC application? If you answered yes, read this bl...
For many years Thermo Fisher Scientific has worked closely with PharmaFluidics, inventor and manufacturer of micro pillar array columns (μPAC) for low-flow liquid chromatography (LC) omics experiments...
September 2021 saw the launch of a new low-flow UHPLC solution, the Thermo Scientific™ Vanquish™ Neo UHPLC system and Thermo Scientific™ PepMap™ Neo UHPLC columns. When we talk about HPLC columns, ter...
Change is the only constant we have in life. And while we are living proof of Darwinism, we certainly were not prepared for the suddenly abrupt lifestyle changes COVID-19 threw our way. While there wa...
Do you recall the first thing you learned how to cook? For me, it was scrambled eggs. I clearly remember the steps I was taught: crack eggs into a bowl and mix, then butter the pan, finish by adding s...
“A new product line?” That was the surprise statement heard around the world when Dionex introduced the first Acclaim HPLC columns 20 years ago, on 10 July, 2001 (later to become the Thermo Scientific...
In October 2020, hundreds of scientists gathered together for Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Global Ion Chromatography (IC) Virtual Symposium. This inaugural event was a celebration of the impact that thi...
During my time of pandemic shelter-in-place, like many others I turned to online streaming for distraction. In my search for programs, I found intense fascination with baking competitions. Captivated ...
You probably ordered most of your holiday gifts online; maybe you buy your groceries through the web and your favourite books can be digitally purchased in seconds via the internet. So why not think a...
I have previously written about the need to reduce the proliferation of Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheets in the laboratory and how our Chromatography Data System (CDS) admin team can utilize Thermo Scie...
Every year in my annual Spring Cleaning, I sort through my closets for donations. There are always those “two-sizes too small” suits and dress clothes in the back of the closet, representing those unr...
Perchlorate is an interesting anion. It does not absorb in the ultraviolet so it cannot be detected with a UV detector. This makes it difficult to detect using HPLC instrumentation. Furthermore, perch...
As a baker, I’m constantly scaling up good recipes, and as a scientist you might need to do the same. Prep LC is all about scaling up – and let me tell you from experience that scaling up is often nee...
Despite my busy schedule as a full-time working parent and tennis team captain, I greatly enjoy when I am in charge of preparing delicious meals in my kitchen, which I tend to run almost like a mini l...
I don’t know about you, but I can never have too many shoes. At least I do not have a strict rule as to how many pairs I should own. Many times I have set off on a mission to find the perfect shoe jus...
A combination lock annoyingly doesn’t open until the correct sequence of numbers is used. You know when you are inputting the code and it won’t open, that the numbers are in the wrong position. So, yo...
As a new homeowner I’m quickly becoming accustomed to the laundry list of To Dos around the house. While drywall and electrical work are new territory for me, there are so many parallels between home ...
The other day I received a paper credit card statement from my bank. I threw it in my recycling bin while wondering why the bank was still sending me paper statements. Online banking has made tracking...