Consider designing the readout first when developing point-of-need assays.

The ageless wisdom, “imitation is the sheerest form of flattery,” once again holds true. Unfortunately in quantitative analysis, imitation comes with real consequences.

There are a plethora of useful software packages available to analytical scientists for processing experimental data and results. At the top of the list – or pretty darn close to the top – is Microsoft Excel. Why?

Supercritical fluid chromatography started out as anything but green. The road has been bumpy, but the modern technique cannot be ignored from an environmental perspective – despite its slight identity crisis.

Can wooden toothpicks be the key to improving detection of drugs of abuse using mass spectrometry?

Can surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) help catch vain criminals?

When bottles of beer from the 1840s were found on a shipwreck, there was only one thought on the minds of analytical scientists: what chemicals do they contain?

Researchers working on Raman spectroscopy based surgical tools sprint towards clinical applications.

The moment we start taking technology for granted, we risk stifling future innovation and creativity.

In some industries, for example, in early-stage pharmaceutical development, it is desirable to measure particle size from a small samples of dry powders. However measuring small quantities risks measuring a sample that is not representative of the bulk material. In this application note, we demonstrate the capability of the Aero S dry dispersion unit and the Mastersizer 3000 to measure small quantities of pharmaceutical materials dosed with large particles and to detect those large, anomalous particles.