Frontline Pharma: Sarah O’Keeffe
May 8, 2026
Ahead of HPLC 2026, Eli Lilly’s Sarah O’Keeffe reflects on leadership, collaboration, and the analytical advances helping bring increasingly complex medicines to patients
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Opinion & Personal Narratives
Out of the Basement and Into the Light
Feb 05, 2026
4 min read
Three Power Listers discuss practical ways to help funders, journals, and fellow scientists understand – and invest in – analytical science
Career Pathways
Business & Entrepreneurship
Tomorrow’s Science Leaders Roundtable: Part Two
Jan 06, 2026
8 min read
Isabelle Kohler, Charlotta Turner, and Lourdes Ramos discuss AI, success, and redefining impact in an age of change
Keynote Interviews
Trends & Challenges
The Coffee Break: With James Grinias
Apr 30, 2026
7 min read
Jim Grinias shares the ideas and debates shaping conference conversations – from AI to interdisciplinary science
Trends & Challenges
Deep dives into the trends shaping analytical science today – and the challenges that lie ahead
The Missing Piece in the Dark Metabolome Puzzle?
Apr 08, 2026
By James Strachan
Microdroplets formed during electrospray ionization may trigger chemical reactions that help explain a substantial portion of the “dark metabolome” – though some researchers question their relevance under typical metabolomics conditions
7 min read
Pharma & Biopharma
Mass Spectrometry
GLP-1 Analysis: Riding the Wave of Peptide Innovation
Jan 26, 2026
12 min read
The remarkable commercial success of GLP-1 receptor agonists is fueling investment, accelerating science, and creating new analytical challenges. Here, we outline the hurdles these peptides present, explore methods for impurity profiling and structural characterization, and consider strategies to keep pace with this fast-moving field.
Environmental
Mass Spectrometry
PFAS Enters its Big Data Era
Feb 17, 2026
11 min read
Jennifer Field explores new frontiers in the fight against PFAS: mining big data, tracing volatile emissions, and probing fluoropolymers through biomimetic tools
Mass Spectrometry
Environmental
The Past, Present and Future of Non-Target Screening
Mar 23, 2026
6 min read
Thomas Letzel reflects on the evolution of non-target screening and why interdisciplinary insights are key to its future
Innovation
The technologies, lessons, and stories defining innovation in analytical science
The Analytical Scientist Innovation Awards 2025
Nov 17, 2025
By James Strachan
The products – and people – defining the next wave of analytical innovation
7 min read
Innovation
Career Pathways
Innovation at Scale: A Conversation with Agilent’s New CTO
Oct 24, 2025
11 min read
We speak with August Specht, Chief Technology Officer at Agilent, about the opportunities and risks of AI, the promise of multimodal data, and building a more connected and sustainable future for analytical science
Innovation
Business & Entrepreneurship
Lessons Crossing the Valley of Death
Sep 18, 2025
3 min read
Let’s transform analytical chemistry into the hotbed of commercial innovation it ought to be
Innovation
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The Psychology of Innovation: How to Build a Fearlessly Curious Team
Jun 30, 2025
12 min read
Creating space for dissent, risk-taking, and failure is key to innovation, says SCIEX’s R&D VP Chris Lock
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Measuring Aerosol Chemistry in Minutes
May 07, 2026
Nanoelectromechanical FTIR analyzes nanogram-scale aerosol samples, reducing collection times from week-long campaigns to minutes
3 min read
Bridging the Gap Between Untargeted and Quantitative MS
May 06, 2026
Gary Siuzdak explains how his uMRM workflow could remove one of metabolomics’ biggest bottlenecks
4 min read
Mass Spec Roundup: Protein Stress, Cannabis Chemistry and Sharks…
May 06, 2026
From T cell dysfunction to shark vertebrae, mass spectrometry traces hidden chemistry across cells, crops, foods, and river systems
7 min read
A Molecular Record of Repairs from a Roman Shipwreck
May 05, 2026
Organic residue and pollen analysis uncover geographically distinct coating batches across a 2,200-year-old Roman vessel
2 min read
Three Trends Shaping Multi-omics Sample Preparation
May 04, 2026
By Malin Karlsson
Maximizing insight from limited samples, aligning data across molecular layers, and building consistency from the first step
4 min read
Separation Science in Turbulent Times
May 01, 2026
By Frank van Geel, James Strachan
Susan Olesik at HPLC 2026: new chemistry, new capabilities – and new concerns
4 min read
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The Coffee Break: With James Grinias
Apr 30, 2026
By James Strachan
Jim Grinias shares the ideas and debates shaping conference conversations – from AI to interdisciplinary science
7 min read
Extraction at Scale: Meeting the Demands of Environmental Monitoring
Apr 30, 2026
By James Strachan, Frank van Geel
Ahead of ExTech 2026, Leon Barron explores high-throughput workflows, PFAS detection, and real-world sample complexity
4 min read
Accelerating Biopharmaceutical Development with CE-MS
Apr 30, 2026
Microfluidic CE-MS interfaces simplifies and streamlines biotherapeutic characterization to reduce turnaround times in bioanalytical labs
9 min read
Mass Spec Roundup: From Alzheimer’s to Antarctic Dust
Apr 29, 2026
New studies highlight hidden molecular patterns in Alzheimer’s disease, dolphin milk, Antarctic dust, and oxidative DNA damage
5 min read
