Fail to Prepare, Prepare to Fail
November 18, 2022
Are global health systems ready for another pandemic?
6 min read
False
Closing the anti-doping circus
May 15, 2013
Are the right questions being asked about substance abuse in sport? I say no, and suggest that the entire process might be abandoned.
1 min read
Skills Gap = Foresight Gap
May 15, 2013
The abandonment of employee training and development is a false economy. Those companies that do invest will have a huge competitive advantage.
1 min read
Constant Quality Improvement
May 15, 2013
Scientific innovation combined with manufacturing excellence continues to drive improvements in GC. For trace analysis, the development of ultra-inert columns has been crucial. Here’s how it was done.
1 min read
Mass Spectrometry
Mass Spectrometry
Chromatography
Liquid Chromatography
Chromatography
Gas Chromatography
Data and AI
Non-Targeted is Our Target
May 15, 2013
Full-scan mass spectrometry is about to transform the way that we do analyses. Here, I describe the possibilities for non-targeted analysis that are opened up by recent improvements in instrumentation, compare the new approach to today’s best (targeted) practice, and look for solutions to the bottlenecks that are hindering widespread adoption of non-targeted analysis.
1 min read
Pharma's DBS Dilemma
May 15, 2013
Advantages of dried blood spot (DBS) analysis for the pharmaceutical industry abound yet analytical and regulatory challenges are hindering widespread uptake. Here, two leading proponents of the approach discuss what can be done to overcome the barriers to its implementation.
1 min read
Coasting Ahead
May 15, 2013
How a public-private community is transforming the way analytical chemistry research is approached in The Netherlands.
1 min read
Volume-Based HPLC
May 15, 2013
Moving away from constant flow to multiple modes of operation heralds a revolution in high performance liquid chromatography.
1 min read
The High-Impact Chromatographer
May 15, 2013
Sitting Down With Peter Schoenmakers, professor at the Faculty of Science, van‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and co-chair of HPLC2013.
1 min read
Alcoholic Intelligence (AI)
May 14, 2013
For centuries, taste experts have had the enviable – and indispensable – job of managing brandy quality control. Are they about to be replaced by E-Tongue technology?
1 min read
7 DBS Solutions
May 14, 2013
Dried blood spot analysis is a useful, but not yet perfect, technique. Here are solutions to some currently vexing issues.
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A Meal Fit For a King
May 14, 2013
Radiocarbon dating not only supported the identification of King Richard III’s remains, it also shed light on his diet.
1 min read
99 Dead Balloons
May 14, 2013
As we burn through our natural resources with gay abandon, all humans (analytical scientists included) must consider the impact of non-sustainable activities and prepare to make changes. Helium is just the latest in a long line of elemental casualties.
1 min read
Mass Spectrometry
Mass Spectrometry
Chromatography
Gas Chromatography
Chromatography
Liquid Chromatography
Bio Sample Snapshot
May 14, 2013
How clinical analysis tracks developments in analytical technology.
1 min read
Reinvigorating SAXS
May 14, 2013
New metrics promise “game-changing” improvements in the structural analysis of flexible macromolecules by small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS).
1 min read
Analytical Attrition
May 14, 2013
Despite its intrinsic importance, analytical science has a very low profile and is in danger of being dismantled completely. One organization, COAST, offers an alternative future.
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