The Big Poster Pitch
February 5, 2015
Do you want your spellbinding scientific poster to be seen by a wider audience?
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Mass Spectrometry
Mass Spectrometry
Chromatography
Liquid Chromatography
Chromatography
Gas Chromatography
Data and AI
Spectroscopy
Chromatography: Winning Every Battle, Losing the War?
January 22, 2015
Other techniques are beating chromatography and mass spectrometry to the hero’s reward all too often. Are they better? No. Are they faster to first result? Yes. Is it time to acknowledge that – on the frontlines – fit-for-purpose triumphs over best-in-class? You decide.
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Gurus of Chiral Separations
January 20, 2015
In Lewis Carroll’s 1871 novel, Through the Looking-Glass, Alice suggests to her black kitten, “Perhaps Looking-Glass milk isn’t good to drink...” And though our four gurus don’t attempt to predict the potability of milk from a mirror world, they keenly address the broader significance of chirality, the major milestones in chiral analysis, and where the field is heading.
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Free Spirit
January 19, 2015
Sitting Down With Purnendu (Sandy) Dasgupta, Jenkins Garrett Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Arlington, USA.
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Ultrasensitive Detection of Mercury: Beyond FRET
January 19, 2015
Rapid screening for total mercury content of water, soils and fish takes to the field
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Electrifying Analysis in R&D
January 19, 2015
Electrochemical reaction cells are finding new applications in the pharma R&D lab that could offer big time and cost savings. Here, we share our experiences using electrochemistry with on-line mass spectrometry to study pharmaceutical stability and oxidation products – and explain why we’re electrochemistry converts.
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Forensics
Forensics
Mass Spectrometry
News and Research
Technology
Spectroscopy
Chromatography
Gas Chromatography
Adding Science Behind the Canine
January 19, 2015
Leveraging technology solutions to support rather than replace dogs in arson investigations.
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Computer-aided Chromatography
January 19, 2015
We need to extend the limits of gradient condition optimization beyond reversed-phase separations.
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Making Room for Improvement
January 19, 2015
To make way for more flexible approved analytical methods, we need a better understanding of the underlying scientific principles.
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Fishing with Ion Chromatography Suppressors
January 19, 2015
Combining knowledge from multiple fields inspired a solution to a problem in ion chromatography. What a shame the manufacturer didn’t take the bait...
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DNA Imaging On-the-Go
January 19, 2015
Turn your smartphone into a portable fluorescence microscope for imaging and sizing DNA molecules
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Jurassic Park Parchment
January 19, 2015
DNA from ancient archive gives researchers a window into animals of the past
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Finding Phytase
January 19, 2015
Recombinant blood protein contamination is discovered by chance. NMR to the rescue?
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Swimming with Spectroscopy
January 19, 2015
Is it time to drop your NIR instrument in the pool?
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Redux: Preparative GC
January 19, 2015
A new approach to an old idea hyphenates FID detection with bioactivity assays
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Classic Chemistry
January 19, 2015
Combining art and science is becoming a bit of a theme for The Analytical Scientist. Lewis Carroll’s reference to stereoisomers sent me down my own rabbit hole of discovery
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