Getting Up to Speed: Detecting Doping in Horse Racing
With the ever-growing market for new drugs to enhance performance of horses, analysts are continually battling to develop new analytical methods to beat doping. LCGC spoke to Karen Y. Kwok from The Hong Kong Jockey Club in Hong Kong, China, about her work in this area.
ISCC Event Preview The 40th International Symposium in Capillary Chromatography (ISCC) and 13th GC×GC Symposium will be held at the Palazzo dei Congressi, in Riva del Garda, Italy, from 29 May–3 June 2016.
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Detecting Tuberculosis Using GC–MS
A new method for tuberculosis (TB) detection using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) has been developed. Using an established biomarker known as Lipoarabinomannan (LAM), researchers have simplified a previously validated method measuring the closely linked D-arabinose.