July 2014 Issue of The Analytical Scientist

“Simulation” and biting aside, does the total lack of substance abuse mean that the beautiful game is clean?

Measuring the impact of the Deepwater Horizon disaster four years on

A nanowire-based prototype “supersensor” can detect the fingerprint of explosives down to parts per quadrillion

Carcinogen levels in hairdressers’ blood appear to be linked to number of coloring treatments

Analytical scientists will descend on Mozart’s hometown for two future-facing conferences – ISC 2014 and MSACL 2014 EU.

How microfluidic paper analytical devices will make testing for the presence of toxic chemicals in air or water as simple, ubiquitous and inexpensive as measuring the temperature.

Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography is often presented as extremely complicated. It isn’t. Here is some simple advice to help attract more users to the benefits

Our third effort at developing a simple analytical diagnostic for malaria looks promising. It could help prevent the spread of the most devastating disease on the planet.

Many sample preparation techniques originated a long, long time ago. Should we be satisfied with old separation magic or does our whole approach need to be re-cast?

How smartphone power, coupled with the scale of its adoption globally, offers a compelling platform for analytics and diagnostics – and a chance to level the playing field for researchers in resource-poor countries.

Starting my own bioanalytical research company after many years working for Big Pharma has been daunting, but also satisfying, and I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.

Atmospheric pressure gas chromatography (APGC) showed great promise when it was originally unveiled, but significant development and input from key collaborators would be required to harness the technique for ultra-trace POP analysis. Here’s that story.

Sitting Down With Daniel Armstrong, Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry, University of Texas at Arlington, TX, USA.

Concluding our series on two-dimensional liquid chromatography, we talk with a pair of relative newcomers who relate their experiences to date and discuss how they plan to take advantage of the technique in the future.

Ole Gron has been in the pharmaceutical industry for over 10 years after finding his way into separation science via spectroscopy.

Fresh from the excitement of ASMS 2014 in Baltimore, Ken Miller, VP of Marketing for Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry, provides a snapshot of Thermo Fisher Scientific’s ambitions.

Whilst at Riva 2014 (the 38th ISCC and 11th GCxGC Symposium), Rich Whitworth, editor of The Analytical Scientist, invited three key participants of the conference to take part in an exciting new video projec

Who Are The Top 40 Under 40?

Showcasing the greatest analytical advances of the year

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