Microbial Gene Ratios Reveal Oil Spill Forensics
By Henry Thomas
August 20, 2025
Gene-ratio profiling provides rapid, cost-effective oil spill assessment with predictive power for bioremediation
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Empowering Peptide Purification
February 5, 2025
Peptide drug development has made great progress in recent years – in large part thanks to new purification and separation technologies; however, method development remains an expensive challenge. We spoke with KNAUER’s Ulrike Krop to learn more about the company’s systematic and cost-saving approach to scale-up.
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More Bang for Your Buck
By Henry Thomas
December 4, 2024
Researchers develop more stable catalysts for dry reforming of methane – a promising method for carbon capture and utilization (CCU)
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Plastics: Squaring the Circular Economy
By Melissa N. Dunkle
November 5, 2024
Emerging analytical methods for more precise quantification of hydrocarbon composition and impurity detection may prove essential to realizing a circular plastic economy
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High-Resolution Mass Spec Reveals Crude Oil Weathering Dynamics
September 12, 2024
Researchers use HRMS to understand the fate of hydrocarbon contaminants on land
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What’s New in Chromatography?
By Markella Loi
March 20, 2024
This month’s news in chromatography: machine learning takeover, algorithms, and online platforms…
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Complexity Resolved?
By Mark Barrow
January 19, 2022
Given the fundamental patterns we find in nature, the development of new methods to unravel the most complex mixture of all – petroleum – bears fruit in many other applications areas, not least environmental analysis
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One Word: Plastics
By Lauren Robertson
April 9, 2021
We ask four industry experts to reflect on the current state of polymer research, the challenges yet to be overcome, and the trends shaping the future of the field
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Record Breakers
By Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano, Mark P. Barrow
December 11, 2019
A challenging analysis led to a new method able to extract a greater number of unique chemical compositions that ever before from a single petroleum sample – and could have applications in biology and beyond
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