An integrated approach to uncovering distinct metabolite profile shifts in diabetes progression. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is on a rampant rise across the globe, making it a critical area of study for metabolomics and biomarker discovery.

A global, online risk-assessment tool offers a more intelligent way to protect against emerging food fraud and contamination

Understanding the motivations of your staff through the combination of mindfulness and motivation theory can help you improve teamwork and boost the vitality of your staff.

Laboratory design can be conducive – or unconducive – to creativity and productivity. Can today’s lab layout and rationale, a legacy from 60 years ago, be improved upon? I say yes, and go back even further in the history of the laboratory for inspiration.

A new biosensor cradle and app take us one step closer to portable and more universal analytical access. Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a cradle accessory for the iPhone that aligns its integral camera with a series of optical components to analyze a primed slide.

The use of submicrometer particles in chromatography, viewed as heresy when first suggested a decade ago, is today seen as a possible quantum leap in separation efficiency. This is a first‑hand account of the origins of the idea, the experiments that yielded crystal-clear data and the literature on slip flow that provided an explanation of the remarkable findings.

As we prepare to launch The Analytical Scientist Innovation Award, the articles in this month’s issue unwittingly form links in the innovation chain – from idea to marketed product – contributed by people who have been there, done that.

There’s a famous maxim known to staff of the American Chemical Society: if you leave out books at the National ... Meeting, they will all walk away. Chemists are addicted to learning and knowledge – it’s a lifelong obsession.

The governing body’s all-out war against athletes guilty of doping fails to uphold the ideals of sport – or of basic justice.

Generating robust biomolecular signatures from diabetic wound fluid