February 2015 Issue of The Analytical Scientist

Is analytical science poised to storm the theatre and steal the spotlight? Possibly not. But I do sense an increasingly central – and recognized – role, particularly in the clinic.

Raman spectroscopy identifies rickets in 400-year-old bones from the Mary Rose

Odorant binding proteins could help to unlock new biosensors

A UK study is set to examine whether new Raman technology can be used to assist surgeons during brain tumor removal.

Ahead of New Oleans, we offer a little history, editorial program picks, and invite you to the Humanity in Science Award symposium.

An ambitious UK sequencing project aims to learn more about patients with cancer and rare diseases

Why analytical chemistry must be leveraged in the next generation of wearable devices.

There are a lot of things to consider when seeking good results from gas chromatography. Success often comes from understanding precisely what goes on in the injection port.

We’re looking for analytical players for a new fixture on the calendar – Analytical Technologies Europe 2015. Together we can beat the challenges of the biopharmaceutical industry.

You’ve convinced your boss that your laboratory absolutely needs a shiny new quadrupole-based, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) system for trace element analysis. Now what?

Implementing a new laboratory information management system (LIMS) takes a lot more work than choosing the “right” software.

At the heart of the drive for increased epidemiological knowledge, faster diagnostics and better-informed treatment decisions are collaborations between medical doctors and analytical specialists.

Molecular imaging based on mass spectrometry provides a broad scope of analytical, molecular and local information that can be employed for patient phenotyping.

The primary value of M4I really lies in the investment in human capital (rather than simply MSI hardware)

Four stationary phase experts – Emily Hilder, Frantisek Svec, Nobuo Tanaka and Sebastiaan Eeltink – discuss the unfolding story of monolithic columns: from chromatographic curiosity to the future of sample preparation?

How The Analytical Scientist Innovation Award (TASIA) winning ionKey/MS System made ultra-sensitive liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) ultra accessible.

Let’s go back to the early 1990s when an important innovation was starting to cause a stir. Electrospray ionization (ESI) essentially allowed liquid chromatography (LC) and mass spectrometry (MS) to be combined much more easily as an analytical technique.

Oscar van den Brink, managing director of COAST and TKI-Chemistry in the Netherlands.

NIR spectroscopy and machine vision team up for rapid grains inspection

Wolfgang discusses the spirit of science, Salzburg and ISC2014 in the latest episode of Tea with Rich.

How does a young scientist get on the ‘team’? Peter Schoenmakers offers his advice, while Rich offers tea.

Michael Lämmerhofer opens up about his work on oxidative stress markers and the Chromatographic Society’s Jubilee Award.

A concern raised by the rise in routine MRI screening within the healthcare industry is that the ability to detect abnormalities within the body may currently be running ahead of our understanding of their possible consequences, making it difficult to determine a sound course of action. Here then analytical science is arguably advancing beyond current requirements.

In this second article of a short series Dr Paul Kippax is looking at the how recent innovations are substantially enhancing the value and informational productivity of some of our established and trusted analytical techniques. This time, the addition of multiple detectors to a GPC/SEC analysis…

In this short series of articles Dr Paul Kippax is looking at how recent innovations are substantially enhancing the value and informational productivity of some of our established and trusted analytical techniques. This time, the addition of Raman spectroscopy to automated imaging…

Using OMNISEC, we will show how to separate the effects of a structural difference induced by a compositional change to a polymer (e.g. substitution) and the structural change induced by polymer chain branching.