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News Release from: Agilent Technologies Europe | Subject: Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 February 2006
Liquid chromatography and mass
spectrometry
Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) is a powerful analytical method that can detect toxins in food and drinking water and performance-enhancing substances in blood or urine of athletes.
Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) is a powerful analytical method that can detect toxins in food and drinking water, impurities in medications, biowarfare agents in the soil, and performance-enhancing substances in the blood or urine of athletes It can also be used to identify proteins associated with infections and diseases such as cancer, and to help develop new drugs that target and inactivate those disease-causing proteins
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 23 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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In LC/MS, Agilent has been a long-time leader in single quadrupole technology.
Since 2000, the company has introduced ion trap and time-of-flight (TOF) instruments that set new benchmarks in performance.
Agilent has also introduced completely novel LC and MS tools, including the industry's only HPLC-Chip, a credit-card sized device that increases the sensitivity of HPLC by 3,500 times; and the first multi-mode ion source, which can simultaneously analyze ions by electrospray ionization and atmospheric pressure chemical ionization in just one experiment.
With its comprehensive new LC/MS line, Agilent aims to set a new standard.
The Agilent 6000 Series includes enhanced single quad, trap and TOF instruments, as well as a new Triple Quadrupole (Triple Quad) and Quadrupole-TOF (Q-TOF).
LC/MS can be complex and cumbersome even for experts.
According to customer benchmarking studies, major shortcomings of LC/MS instrumentation to date have been the tendency to break down, the need for frequent servicing and the difficulty of use.
For the new Agilent 6000 Series, Agilent's engineers focused on addressing these problems, providing solutions such as push-button automatic calibration ("autotune"), walk-away automation of instrument runs, automated quantification via software and new software for easy compound finding and identification.
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