Integrated microfluidic chip for selenium speciation
In this paper, researchers from the Whuan University in China present a new method for speciation of selenium in yeast cells.
Using on-chip magnetic solid phase extraction and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)-inductively plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), Bin Hu and colleagues revealed that the amount of selenocysteine and selenomethionine in a single-enriched cell are in the order of picograms.
According to the authors, this new analytical method is sensitive, fast, low cost and easy to use.
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Speciation of selenium in cells by HPLC-ICP-MS after (on-chip) magnetic solid phase extraction
Beibei Chen , Bin Hu , Man He , Qian Huang , Yuan Zhang and Xing Zhang
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2JA30280B
