Fields & Applications

A close-up of cocaine distribution in washed hair strands

Is pesticide residue analysis still a hot topic? Ahead of EPRW 2016 in Cyprus, current Chair – Despo Louca Christodoulou – and scientific organizing committee members Magnus Jezussek and Sonja Masselter discuss the importance of the field in challenging times.

What is the chemical nature of thought? What is memory? Why, over 2000 years since Aristotle first asked such questions, are we still searching?

In many European countries, the limit of lactose in lactose-free labelled products has been lowered from 100 to 10 mg/100 g product in recent years (1).

Can infrared absorption and Raman spectroscopy keep pace with clandestine chemists?

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Can sophisticated spectroscopic sensors streamline bioprocess monitoring to better meet FDA standards?

Are poster sessions still relevant in 21st century scientific meetings or are they just filling time and space – and justifying the cost of sending students to events? Here, Deirdre Cabooter (HTC organizer), Greg Klunder (SciX organizer), Hamed Eghbali (HPLC organizer and judge), and grad student Cory Stiner make the case for laminated works of science.

For over 50 years, we have been continually striving to push the limits of quantitation for dioxins. But where do we stand today – and what’s our next plan of attack?

Liposomes have great utility in bioanalysis and drug delivery. Could bringing the two fields together provide new analytical tools?