November 2013 Issue of The Analytical Scientist

What can be done to improve on a disappointing show in The Power List?

The unique co-evolutionary relationships between plants and their pollinators are as complex as they are diverse.

Is “accelerator-on-a-chip” technology the tipping point for cheaper, smaller devices for science and medicine?

AstraZeneca joins forces with Labcyte to develop acoustic dispensing system for mass spectrometry

Do you have big data, lots of questions, and no expertise? This crowd-sourced data analysis platform could be the answer – if you can afford it

Having thrust 100 analytical scientists to the heights of stardom in our 2013 Power List, we went back to assess the reaction of colleagues, friends and family. The response was mixed.

Taiwan proudly set the tightest limits on glyphosate, but failed to measure the herbicide

Is there a pecking order for scientists? If so, how is it determined and what does it mean?

An article by Monika Dittmann on volume-based HPLC triggered a debate on the practicality of the concept. Here, we present the questions that were raised and how they were answered.

Incorporating updated analytical methods and approaches into pharmacopoeias – the bibles of pharmaceutical standards – would save a great deal of time and money.

The development of Orbitrap™ has taken up all of my professional life. It’s been a story of luck, perseverance, and, ultimately, success.

We sample the views of five food analysis experts. Is separation science still the greatest thing since sliced bread, or are there bigger fish to fry?

From a seventeen-year vantage point, I offer these recollections into the development of a technology-based consulting business.

How we can innovate by setting aside critical and logical thought processes, and embracing the lost skill of imagination.

Sitting Down with Sue Lunte, Ralph N. Adams Institute for Bioanalytical Chemistry, Departments of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas, USA.

UV detection methods are the most widely used in HPLC owing to the seemingly ubiquitous presence of chromophores in analytes.

Metrohm's customizable system copes with the tough requirements of the radiopharmaceutical industry and pharmacopoeial regulations.