Talkin’ ‘Bout a (Protein) Revolution
December 22, 2021
How native MS may help rewrite the textbooks on immunology – and life itself
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December 2021
Find out which 15 trailblazing technologies cut the mustard with our judges in this year’s Innovation Awards! This issue also features an interview with “Analytical Neuroscientist,” Jonathan Sweedler, who was recently ranked first on our annual Power List – for the second time. Sticking with the life sciences, Michael McGinley walks us through the Wild West of Oligonucleotide Analytics, where survival requires a good understanding of both chemistry and biology; and Albert Heck discusses how native MS may help rewrite the textbooks and immunology – and even life itself. Elsewhere, Norbert Jakubowski discusses how to take ICP-MS to the next level, and Calum Preece reviews the role of stable isotope analysis in the ongoing search for evidence of our changing environment. Finally, find out how gas spectroscopy could solve critical clinical challenges in respiratory diagnostics and how NMR spectroscopy could help scientists in the fight against antifungal resistance.
Stable Isotopes in an Unstable Climate
December 14, 2021
The ongoing search for evidence of our changing environment
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The Phantom Lung
December 13, 2021
How a gas spectroscopy technique could solve critical clinical challenges in respiratory diagnostics and treatment
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Taming the Wild West of Oligonucleotide Analytics
December 9, 2021
For oligonucleotide therapies to realize their huge potential, analytical scientists need to have a good understanding of the biology, while also keeping pace with constantly changing chemistries
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The Analytical Neuroscientist
December 9, 2021
Sitting Down With… Jonathan Sweedler, James R. Eiszner Family Endowed Chair in Chemistry, Director of the School of Chemical Sciences & Professor of Neuroscience and Molecular & Integrative Physiology at the Beckmann Institute, University of Illinois, USA
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ToF-SIMS: A Secret Forensics Weapon?
December 8, 2021
How a new approach to imaging could help forensics scientists retrieve fingerprints from tricky bullet casings
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ICP-MS: Taking the “Gold Standard” to the Next Level
December 8, 2021
Today, ICP-MS allows us to understand how cells interact with their environment – but we have a long way to go before we can measure these dynamic processes as they occur. What comes next?
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Dating the Big Tree
December 2, 2021
How a new approach to radiocarbon dating has helped elucidate the age of Africa’s “tree of life”
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No Prize for Second Place?
December 1, 2021
Rather than rushing to the finishing post, we should all focus on data quality by sticking to the four Cs: consistency, correctness, completeness, and credibility
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A Closer Look at the Fungal Armor
November 30, 2021
By providing a detailed analysis of the cell wall, NMR spectroscopy could help scientists in the fight against antifungal resistance
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Popular Reflections: The Rise and Rise of Metabolomics
November 2, 2021
In 2018, Martin Giera, Mary E. Spilker and Gary Siuzdak shared their love of a special field in “Metabolomics: the Superglue of Omics” (1). Here, we catch up with Martin and Gary.
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