November 2018

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The Sweet Smell of Success

Sitting Down With… Jean-François Focant, Professor, Chemistry Department, University of Liège, Belgium.

Those Who Can, Teach: Pharma Stars

In the fourth part of our series on innovative education, a group of academic scientists from Norway, Denmark and the Czech Republic tell us how their new post-graduate bioanalytical course will produce the pharmaceutical scientists of the future.

Think Twice

We’re (re)developing twin column “recycling” chromatography as a semi-preparative technology that separates and identifies trace impurities.

Remembering Lloyd Snyder

In September 2018, Lloyd Snyder – best known for uncovering fundamental principles in liquid chromatography – passed away at the age of 87. These recollections by four colleagues and friends paint a picture of Lloyd as a generous and gifted scientist – and a wonderful human being.

A Lasting Legacy

In 1944, famine struck the Netherlands. Babies born soon after the end of the famine initially appeared to suffer few ill effects, but as they reached middle age they began to exhibit an unusual prevalence of heart disease and other metabolic disorders. Studies of the “Dutch Hongerwinter cohort” ultimately discovered that environmental factors can not only affect gene expression in an individual, but leave a lasting epigenetic imprint on their children. How can events that happened decades earlier affect later generations – and could we one day manipulate our epigenome to live longer, healthier lives? To find the answers, we need better, faster analytical tools.

Digital Sample Prep

Advanced 3D printing is already boosting analytical efficiency – but shouldn’t the wider community be embracing its transformative potential?

Biotherapeutic QC: Time to Meet MAM

How high-resolution mass spectrometry and the multiple attribute method could give a boost to biopharma analytics, particularly with continuous processing on the horizon.

Bearfaced Research

A new way of discovering antibiotics makes use of an unusual source of complex microbial communities

Safe and Sound

Business in brief: What’s going on in analytical science?

Gone Fishing

A magnetic wire inserted into a vein captures circulating tumor cells and cell-free tumor DNA

Suppressed Excitement

New microfluidic membrane suppressor technology wins the prestigious Solvay Award for the best PhD thesis

Yummy Mummy?

GC-MS reveals ancient Egyptian embalming “recipe”

Ring the Changes

NASA’s pioneering Cassini spacecraft captures Saturn’s atmospheric composition in its “Grand Finale”

Just What the Doctor Ordered

We need to increase diversity – and talking is not enough.