Agilent Technologies Inc has introduced the Agilent 1200 Series LC (liquid chromatography) system, which replaces its market-leading 1100 Series LC. Used by more than 250,000 customers worldwide in applications from forensics to food safety, pharmaceuticals, and protein research, LC is a measurement technology used to separate, identify, quantify, and purify compounds. To protect customer investments, Agilent has made the 1200 reverse-compatible with the 1100. Customers can combine new and existing modules, and continue using existing methods, without costly new-method development, revalidation, or retraining of operators. Agilent even provides an 1100 emulation mode for customers using non-Agilent software until third-party software upgrades are available. The Agilent 1200 is the most comprehensive LC available. With more than 60 instrument modules, it can be configured for all major LC applications, including a new rapid-resolution format as well as prep-scale, standard, narrow, capillary, nanoflow, and Agilent’s revolutionary chip-based liquid chromatography. Now HPLC-Chips are available to apply this technology for both small and large molecule work, with chromatographic separation or just for infusion of samples. Nanospray HPLC-Chip/MS technology can provide customers with more than a 1,000-fold improvement in sensitivity over conventional LC/MS.

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