Ten Ways to Bring New Talent into Chromatography – and Onward to Industry
July 15, 2025
At HPLC 2025, academics and industry experts debated how to engage students in chromatography early – ensuring a strong pipeline into industrial roles
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Bridge to Impact: Sitting Down With Ying Ge
Jul 07, 2025
At the intersection of chemistry, biology, and medicine, Ying Ge is pioneering a new era of translational analytical science
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Let’s Join Forces to Survive the Grant Apocalypse
Jun 25, 2025
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Could US academics – with help from societies – share resources to ensure all students get the experience they need?
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Tivadar Farkas: Industry’s Chromatography Crusader
Jun 17, 2025
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2025’s Uwe D. Neue Award winner, Tivadar Farkas, reflects upon the key lessons learned across a career spanning three decades in separation science
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Riva Returns!
Jun 13, 2025
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Luigi Mondello explains why the time is right to reignite Chromatography’s much-missed “scientific retreat”
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Deep dives into the trends shaping analytical science today – and the challenges that lie ahead
Is the Single-Cell Revolution Still Just Beginning?
Jul 10, 2025
By Jonathan Sweedler
Single-cell analysis has exploded in recent years, yet much of the chemical landscape remains uncharted, and we're only beginning to address – or, indeed, understand – many fundamental questions on cell chemical heterogeneity
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Gary Patti: Metabolomics Is Not in Crisis
Jun 12, 2025
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Our ability to measure and quantitate key metabolites remains robust, reproducible, and highly valuable – regardless of how the issue around unknowns plays out
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The Dark Metabolome: No Mere Figment?
Jun 02, 2025
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In-source fragmentation cannot explain away the reality – and significance – of the dark metabolome
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“AI Holds Transformative Potential in Chromatography”
May 30, 2025
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Martina Catani is optimistic about the future of HPLC – and excited about AI’s potential to accelerate method development and enhance precision
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The Psychology of Innovation: How to Build a Fearlessly Curious Team
Jun 30, 2025
By James Strachan
Creating space for dissent, risk-taking, and failure is key to innovation, says SCIEX’s R&D VP Chris Lock
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The Philosophy – and Psychology – of Product Development
Mar 14, 2025
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In a new series highlighting industry’s often unsung heroes, Anne Marie Smith, Product Manager at ACD/Labs, discusses systems thinking, addressing unspoken challenges, and identifying the "empty fridge"
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How to Succeed in Commercial Innovation
Dec 12, 2024
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Sell your story, stay alert, be careful who you hire, and focus intensely on execution
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The Sweet Science of Product Development
Feb 28, 2025
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Looking for a role that blends science with business? Consider product development – and a startup – says BrightSpec’s Colin Merrifield, who shares his career and innovation lessons learned.
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Cuff-Free BP; Plastic by NMR; Fentanyl in the Mail
Jul 09, 2025
And more spectroscopy stories – from wearable tech to nanoparticle safety concerns – in this week’s research roundup
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New MRI Method Maps Brain Metabolism in Minutes
Jul 08, 2025
Researchers combine high-speed magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging with machine learning to detect disease-linked metabolic changes
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New Era in Amino Acid Chiral Separation Beckons
Jul 07, 2025
Pilar Franco, Chiral Technologies Europe, teases a powerful new column that can separate all 21 natural amino acid enantiomers in a single run
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Bridge to Impact: Sitting Down With Ying Ge
Jul 07, 2025
At the intersection of chemistry, biology, and medicine, Ying Ge is pioneering a new era of translational analytical science
10 min read
Spectral Cytometry Enhances CAR T Monitoring
Jul 04, 2025
By Stephanie Vine
A new spectral flow cytometry workflow could shape CAR T product quality and therapeutic outcomes
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MasSpec Pen Detects Opioids; a Kidney Lipid Atlas; Synthesis Spotlight
Jul 03, 2025
And more cutting-edge mass spec research…
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Honoring FT-ICR Pioneer Alan G. Marshall (1944–2025)
Jul 03, 2025
By James Strachan
Co-inventor of FT-ICR mass spectrometry, Alan G. Marshall advanced high-resolution analysis and trained over 100 scientists during his five-decade career
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Meet Spectroscopy’s “New School”
Jul 02, 2025
By Frank van Geel, James Strachan
How compact, connected, and consumer-ready technologies are taking spectroscopy out of the lab and into the world
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UK Plans Nationwide DNA Sequencing of Newborns
Jul 02, 2025
The scheme aims to prevent disease, but some experts are skeptical
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Mass Spectrometry and the Biologics Boom
Jul 01, 2025
By Chris Nortcliffe
Mass spec steps up to tackle the analytical challenges of an increasingly diverse drug pipeline
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