Gas Chromatography

For more than five decades, I have worked in academic research. The questions I and my colleagues – graduate students, postdocs, and collaborators – addressed in the beginning were “academic”, meaning that they focused purely on curiosity.

Sitting Down With… Wolfgang Lindner, Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Analytical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria

New sites devoted to post-publication peer review open up great opportunities for dialog; so long as we can all agree on a clear code of conduct.

How we go about the systematic study of the unique chemical fingerprints that specific cellular processes leave behind – and what we can learn from them.

GC-MS shows that high status Egyptians used exotic balms to mummify food for a slap-up meal in the after life

Sitting Down With… Marja-Liisa Riekkola, Professor of Analytical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland

Main engines: check. Communications: check. Solar power: check. GC-MS system on board: check.

How heart-cutting two-dimensional gas chromatography aided in the identification of hidden odorant peaks to save the day – and the dog’s dinner.

We sample the views of five food analysis experts. Is separation science still the greatest thing since sliced bread, or are there bigger fish to fry?

The unique co-evolutionary relationships between plants and their pollinators are as complex as they are diverse.