Gas Chromatography

Are mass spectral search libraries like crooked politicians? James Harynuk applies thermodynamic common sense to find the answer.

The development of mass spectrometry is one of science’s great technology stories.

Taking gas chromatography into the field has the potential to detect crop disease sooner

What’s better than a nice cup of tea and a chat?

Deeper consideration of individual analytical unit processes offers a more systematic approach to method development, ensuring that we don’t forget the basics in an increasingly sophisticated world.

How broad are the legal duties of analytical laboratories and what do recent developments in US law mean for labs around the world?

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.