chromatography

Rice University wins Prestigious Grants from HHMI

...ucts of these target enzymes with the help of gas- chromatography or other equally cutting-edge techniques. Followed by their lab work, the students will be granted an opportunity to work among graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in faculty labs to further their study of the enzymes as well as prepare pe...

Premier Army Hospital Acquires PET-CT Scanner

... thin layer chromatography, high performance layer chromatography to conform to all safe drug regulations, a defence ministry statement said. Patients would be examined on the PET-CT scanner, where an anatomical CT image would be fused with a functional molecular level PET image, thus providing tremendous increme...

Caffeine Content In Beverages To Be Identified By Home Test Kit

...t results were comparable to those of conventional chromatography tests and that the caffeine content of these beverages was accurately labeled. The antibodies worked equally well in both hot and cold beverages and did not appear to show any false readings caused by structures that are similar to caffeine, Ladens...

Sports Cheats Beware - New Test To Detect Synacthen Found

...in is then subjected to a further two-stage test – chromatography separation and mass spectrometric analysis. This lets scientists produce a chemical fingerprint of the molecule – a fingerprint that uniquely identifies it. "If the drug testing authorities adopt this new test it will close a gap in the current dru...

Are Oysters Really Aphrodisiacs?

...team used a process called high-performance liquid chromatography to identify which amino acids were present and in what quantities. They found two unusual ones - D-aspartic acid (D-Asp) and N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA). "They are not the normal amino acids that Mother Nature uses," said Dr Fisher. "You can't just f...

Simple Breath Test may Detect Lung Cancer

...ts have used highly sensitive machines such as gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy to "read" the volatile organic compounds coming from diseased lungs. But the machines are expensive to use and require specially trained experts to interpret the results. In comparison, the color sensor is cheap and easy to ...

New Technique to Measure Xanthone in Mangosteen

...een fruit, Walker used the high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis to create an analytical method that accurately identifies xanthones from the rind of the mangosteen fruit. According to Walker, an 80:20 acetone/water mixture was used to extract the xanthones from dried, ground whole mangosteen fru...