August 2013

The Power List

Ranking the 100 most influential people in the analytical sciences

Detailed hydrocarbon analysis (DHA)

Introducing the latest in UHPLC technology

Peptide mapping method uses a novel high resolution column with new UHPLC technology.

The Distinguished Scientist

Richard D. Smith, Chief Scientist of the Biological Sciences Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, reflects on 40 years in mass spectrometry following his Distinguished Contribution award at ASMS 2013.

Sound Dilutions

Acoustic liquid handling prevents a pernicious error that is wasting time, costing money and generating misleading results in drug development.

Cracking the Epigenetic Code

Mass spectrometry (MS) approaches are increasing our understanding of how DNA is regulated in real life.

Creating and Analyzing Artificial Tissues

Two tissue engineering technologies, bio-electrospraying and cell electrospinning, provide realistic in vivo facsimiles of disease for high-throughput drug analysis.

The Potential of Analytical Chemistry in Ghana

Every day, analytical chemists are making a practical difference to health and well-being. In our country, we face serious challenges in making this difference and the returns on a small investment in analytical science in Ghana would be enormous.

Open Your Science

Academia is fundamentally broken. You’re wasting your time producing data that will never be published because the scientist down the hall didn’t publish it either. Why aren’t we more concerned?

Triaging Technology – Together

To meet the biopharmaceutical industry’s need for improved analytical solutions, Malvern has developed a new approach. Promising technologies derived from a range of sources are rapidly evaluated in close collaboration with biopharma companies, with the best being selected for fast-track development.

Get Selective

Modern narrow bore columns have made chromatographers lazy when it comes to stationary phase selection. Here’s how getting back to the basics in gas chromatography by using selectivity can address challenging separations and reduce analysis time.

Open Science

Founded by frustrated student Mark Hahnel in 2011, figshare has blossomed to offer a cloud-based publishing solution to otherwise wasted research outputs

Smarter Administration

The talk of TED but a few months ago, uChek, an iPhone-based urinalysis system, came almost immediately under fire from the FDA. There’s an app(roval) for that…

Mass (Spec) Approval

Pre-diabetic Profiling

Monitoring Food Risks

A global, online risk-assessment tool offers a more intelligent way to protect against emerging food fraud and contamination – and provides a potential blueprint for other sectors

Striving with Intention

Understanding the motivations of your staff through the combination of mindfulness and motivation theory can help you improve teamwork and boost the vitality of your staff.

Designing for Discovery

Laboratory design can be conducive – or unconducive – to creativity and productivity. Can today’s lab layout and rationale, a legacy from 60 years ago, be improved upon? I say yes, and go back even further in the history of the laboratory for inspiration.

Smarter Smart Phones

Slip Flow Star

The use of submicrometer particles in chromatography, viewed as heresy when first suggested a decade ago, is today seen as a possible quantum leap in separation efficiency. This is a first‑hand account of the origins of the idea, the experiments that yielded crystal-clear data and the literature on slip flow that provided an explanation of the remarkable findings.

The Accidental Guide to Innovation

As we prepare to launch The Analytical Scientist Innovation Award, the articles in this month’s issue unwittingly form links in the innovation chain – from idea to marketed product – contributed by people who have been there, done that.