June 2013 Issue of The Analytical Scientist

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

How hundreds of extracellular signaling proteins secreted during immune responses were ... discovered – and what it tells us about the whisperered conversations between cells

Saturated transient absorption microscopy (STAM) opens a new door into the nanoscopic world of ... biomedical and nanomaterials research

Researchers tackle elucidation of sulfur-containing metabolites in plant extracts with Fourier ... transform mass spectrometry

In May, emerging analytical professionals gathered at a UK conference of the same name to present ... and network – and to compete for The Analytical Scientist’s first ever prize.

Casual conversations with colleagues from a different field can spark ideas, and even new areas.

Unscrupulous traders are substituting meat from undesired species. We have the tools to stop them, but do we have the political will?

A combination of HDX-MS and IMS will help to explore the basis of functional failures in proteins linked to medical conditions.

Worldwide helium demand far exceeds current production levels. For many gas chroma- tography applications, the ... switch to hydrogen is painless. What’s stopping you?

WADA is on a mission to rid sports of substances that impart an unfair advantage.

Jumping on the breath biomarker bandwagon is tempting, but a number of failures to observe the ... fundamental rules of good science have cast doubt over the ... technique. Here, the authors describe best practice, from collection to clinical evaluation.

Three gurus describe significant breakthroughs in micro and nanoscale analytical techniques and envisage where they might take us next.

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 Problem: How can we rapidly detect economically-motivated adulteration of food and deter fraudsters from ... committing future crimes?

Sitting Down With Georges Guiochon, Professor and Distinguished Scientist of Analytical Chemistry at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

A new solid phase extraction technology has been developed to speed up sample preparation by eliminating steps in the extraction workflow.