Gas chromatography was discovered by Russian-Italian botanist, Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvet, in the early 1900s. The separation technique is used to first split the chemical components of a mixture, then ...

Reviewed by Dr. Catherine Shaffer, Ph.D. Chromatography (from the Greek words chroma, "color," and graphein, "to write") is a method for the separation of a mixture. In simple terms, the process ...

UHPLC-QTOF metabolomics revealed garlic extract and B. subtilis alter key defense pathways, enhancing tomato resistance to Ralstonia solanacearum, an agent of bacterial wilt.

There is a growing demand for high purity chemicals within the technical, life science and fine chemical industries. As new synthetic routes are discovered and purity requirements increase, the demand ...

A study investigating the use of lard-derived diacylglycerol (DG) as a fat replacer on the flavor characteristics of ...

The wide range of chromatographic techniques share one common aim: to separate a material into its components. A material, your sample, is dissolved in a solvent, called the mobile phase. This mixture ...

Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, Ph.D., predicted in 1939 that hydrogen bonding would prove to be more significant in the field of biology than any other type of chemical bond. His prediction has been ...

Case in point: For more than a century, chromatography practitioners have been separating the components of chemical mixtures by using columns packed with various types of particulate matter. Recently ...

As vaccine technologies evolve, sophisticated analytical tools are needed to support vaccine discovery, development and manufacturing. Consequently, a variety of techniques ranging from cell-based to ...

In Star Trek, Mr. Spock’s hand-held tricorder can instantly tell what something is made of. We don’t have tricorders yet, but we’re getting close. Portable devices just a little too big to hold in one ...