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How can I Automate the Precipitation of Red Blood Cells from Whole Blood?

Paul Roberts, our LC-MS Applications Chemist, has been busy adding to our portfolio of clinical laboratory applications. Having successfully completed the project to fully automate the sample preparation and analysis of Vitamin D in blood serum, the next item on … Continue reading

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A New Automated Approach for Testing Contaminated Soil?

Earlier I mentioned that we had developed a new Robotic Centrifuge which we had used in the development of our plant Metabolomics sample preparation workstation and Automated QuEChERS clean-up workstation solutions. Well, if we could only develop a version of … Continue reading

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Automating QuEChERS for Pesticide Residues

I was recently at the European Pesticide Residues Workshop, held this year in Strasbourg. I was invited along by Gerstel to present a talk “Automating Dispersive Solid Phase Extraction Clean-Up (QuEChERS) for LC-QQQ & GC-MS” at their Vendor seminar and … Continue reading

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Clinical Vitamin D Method Development

So I’ve been working on the Vitamin D methodology this week, we are almost ready to start demoing the system to customers….at the heart of the methodology is a solvent facilitated protein crash, which is working really well. Following the … Continue reading

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New LC-MS Hardware…

…So Agilent were here at the end of last week and the beginning of this one, fitting the turbo pump upgrade and multimode ionisation source to allow me to get cracking with the Vitamin D work, we are looking to … Continue reading

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