Capillary Electrophoresis

The M908 took the top spot in our 2013 Innovation Awards – “Revolutionary technology; will be an inspiration for new generations,” said the judges. Here, four co-founders of 908 Devices describe the perfect storm that led to the creation of the world’s first handheld mass spectrometer.

I’ve been running analytical chemistry research groups with military precision for decades. Over that time, I’ve had the good fortune to work with the brightest minds in the field on the most rewarding and exciting projects.

Sitting Down With… Apryll Stalcup, Director of the Irish Separation Science Cluster, Dublin City University, Ireland.

Sitting Down With… Salvatore Fanali, Head of the Capillary Electromigration and Chromatographic Methods Unit at the Institute of Chemical Methodologies, National Research Council (CNR), Monterotondo, Italy.

The Windy City is set to welcome “the world’s largest annual premier conference and exposition on laboratory science”, but are you prepared? Here, we look at historical attendance trends and offer our top picks.

Three gurus describe significant breakthroughs in micro and nanoscale analytical techniques and envisage where they might take us next.

The proteome, which is the set of proteins expressed by a genome, cell, tissue or organism at a given time ... presents immense analytical challenges – but offers substantial rewards. Here, current approaches to proteomics, their strengths and their shortcomings, are explored.