January 2016 Issue of The Analytical Scientist

Concerning disparity between measurements and decisions.

Can a new slippery surface for Raman scattering open the door to routine single molecule detection?

Two-dimensional mass spectrometry (2DMS) can be twice as fast as conventional methods in proteomic analyses

Five ways to speed up gas chromatography analyses using your current system

Genomics platform director tops Thomson Reuters’ list of highly cited authors

Analytical science hits the mainstream with Netflix’s hit documentary [spoiler alert!]

Researchers use SPME and GC-MS to puncture claims that banned tire treatments are “undetectable”

Benthoctopus sp gets overly familiar with Alvin’s robotic manipulator arm at 2,300 meters down in the Gulf of Mexico.

The analytical world in general has yet to appreciate the power of FTIR spectroscopic imaging for process analysis. Here’s why it should be in your toolkit.

A novel CE-MS technique shows great promise for sample-restricted metabolomics.

Multiplexed separations in metabolomics: is there a faster, cheaper, and better way?

The traditional approach of designing experiments by changing one factor at a time is outmoded.

The seven seas represent an extremely challenging and almost boundless environment that a secret army of passionate oceanographers nevertheless joyfully dive into.

Scientists who are dissatisfied with the analysis of samples from our blue planet look to the stars

F. Scott Anderson, a staff scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado, USA, discusses the potential of in-situ resonance ionization mass spectrometry for understanding the age of planetary bodies.

A 2015 Innovation Award-winning “fastGC” module enhances proton transfer reaction time-of-flight analyzer performance by adding an optional near real-time chemical pre-separation step. Here’s the story behind its development.

Sitting Down With… Carlo Bicchi, Professor of Pharmaceutical Biology at the University of Turin, and member of the scientific committee for the 40th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography and 13th GC×GC Symposium (Riva 2016), Italy.

Analysis of chlorhexidine drug substance using an Agilent 6545 Accurate Mass Q-TOF System and MassHunter Mass Profiler Software.

Extraction of air sampling filters for the determination of dioxins using BUCHI’s SpeedExtractor E-914

Compact Spark spectral sensor measures Vis-NIR absorbance of hemoglobin – and more

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) encompass a wide variety of contaminants, but they share one thing in common: they have the potential to hit headlines and cause huge disruption to the food and feed industry.

Hear from Kate Comstock as she talks about her long experience with extractables testing in pharmaceutical companies

Hear from Kyle D’Silva as he discusses new developments in GC-MS technology for Extractables and Leachables testing

Monika Dittman joins Rich Whitworth for tea in Geneva and once again “surfs” the limits of liquid chromatography.

Michal discusses the differences between theory and application and gives his own work in advanced lipidomics and the different demands of clinical analysis as an example.