News: - Project Achieves Milestone in Analyzing Pollutants - USDA Announces Method for Enforcing the Horse Protection Act - Chemist Discovers Secret behind Nature's Medicines -Ion Signature Technology Announces Partnership with GERSTEL GmbH & Co.KG

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Project Achieves Milestone in Analyzing Pollutants
A scientific research consortium led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, has reached an important milestone in the tracking of pollutants responsible for dimming Earth’s atmosphere. Scripps Oceanography scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan reported that instrument-bearing autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (AUAVs) completed 18 successful data-gathering missions in pollution-filled skies over the Maldives, an island chain nation south of India. During the Maldives AUAV Campaign (MAC), groupings of three aircraft flew in synchronous vertical formation, which allowed onboard instruments to observe conditions below, inside and above clouds simultaneously. Researchers hope the data produced during the flights will reveal in unprecedented detail how pollution particles contribute to the formation of clouds and the resulting dimming from the polluted clouds....more>>>

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USDA Announces Method for Enforcing the Horse Protection Act
The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced on Friday (April 14) the use of gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) to enforce the Horse Protection Act (HPA). The method will detect horses that have been subjected to soring.

Since 2004, APHIS' animal care program has held public meetings and informed horse industry organizations regarding the implementation of GC/MS technologies. USDA officials say this tool will aid APHIS' efforts to detect the practice of soring, a cruel and inhumane practice used to accentuate a horse's gait. Soring may be accomplished by irritating or blistering a horse's forelegs through the injection or application of chemicals, mechanical devices, cuts, lacerations or burns....more>>>

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Chemist Discovers Secret behind Nature's Medicines
MIT scientists have just learned another lesson from nature. After years of wondering how organisms managed to create self-medications, such as anti-fungal agents, chemists have discovered the simple secret.

Scientists already knew that a particular enzyme was able to coax a reaction out of stubborn chemical concoctions to generate a large family of medically valuable compounds called halogenated natural products. The question was, how do they do it? Thanks to MIT chemistry Associate Professor Catherine L. Drennan's recent crystallography sleuthing, the secret to the enzyme's enviable prowess has come to light and it appears almost anti-climactic. It's simply a matter of the size of one of its parts. ...more>>>

Ion Signature Technology Announces Partnership with GERSTEL GmbH & Co.KG
Ion Signature Technology has announced the signing of an international distribution agreement with GERSTEL GmbH & Co.KG for its Ion Signature quantitative deconvolution software for gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy instruments.

Under the agreement, GERSTEL will promote and distribute Ion Signature on a global basis – dramatically extending the availability of Ion Signature to laboratories around the world, said John Moore, president, Ion Signature Technology.

GERSTEL, headquartered in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, is a leading provider of MS and GC sample preparation and introduction solutions used in contract labs, R&D and corporate laboratories. The company is represented in more than 80 countries around the world. ...more>>>

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