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December 2016
Welcome to the December issue and the Top 15 innovations of 2016! In our Innovation Explosion, we celebrate creativity and invention in analytical science. In Upfront, we speak to three experts about what’s next in sports doping and uncover the secrets of prehistoric Chinese tombs, while DNA sequencing takes one giant leap for mankind. We Sit Down With Sarah Trimpin, who talks us through ‘magic ionization’, and Anthony Stender shares tips for making the leap from grad school to a rewarding career.
Cheers to GC!
December 7, 2016
As you stockpile your favorite beverage ahead of New Year celebrations, we ask: what does gas chromatography bring to beer, wine and whisky analysis? Richard Law has the answers...
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Enlightened, Empowered: The Ion Magician
December 7, 2016
Sitting Down With... Sarah Trimpin, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, and CEO at MSTM, Michigan, USA.
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Good Job Hunting
December 7, 2016
How to make the leap from graduate school (or janitor at MIT) to a permanent and rewarding career.
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The Innovators
December 7, 2016
From detecting hazards to ensuring food safety, from the lab to the field, from the resolutely robust to the cutting-edge... Meet the innovators defying limitations and driving analytical science forward.
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Innovation Explosion
December 7, 2016
It’s time to roll out the TASIAs tagline: “accurate measurement drives progress in science in immeasurable ways” as The Analytical Scientist Innovation Awards return for a fourth year to celebrate creativity and invention. From smarter spectroscopy to simpler separations, we present our Top 15 innovations of 2016.
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Finding Fakes
December 7, 2016
Looking at the past, present and future of counterfeit drug screening.
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Bring Out Your Data
December 7, 2016
Questions, questions, questions... A call for community standards and the archiving of exposomics datasets.
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Inorganic Species Savior
December 7, 2016
Does the hyphenation of ion chromatography with (inductively coupled plasma)-mass spectrometry represent the pinnacle of species analysis in environmental toxicology? And, if not, what more is needed?
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Depth Profiling with GD-OES
December 7, 2016
Glow discharge optical emission spectrometry (GDOES) is now able to shed light on layer thickness thanks to differential interferometry profiling (DiP).
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Mass Spectrometry
Mass Spectrometry
Business & Entrepreneurship
Chromatography
Liquid Chromatography
Omics
Metabolomics Lipidomics
Cytometry, Superconductivity and SOPs
December 7, 2016
What’s new in business?
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A Decade of Doping – and Analytical Advances
December 7, 2016
More sensitive methods have stripped 40 Olympians of their medals – but are we on the right track?
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The Grateful Dead?
December 7, 2016
Cannabis plants over two millennia old have been discovered in Chinese tombs
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Biomarkers, Sweat and Tears
December 7, 2016
A novel wearable biofluidic device could noninvasively analyze biomarkers in sweat to help diagnose disease
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Detecting Dangerous Deposits
December 7, 2016
Could tandem mass spec improve detection of amyloidosis-causing proteins?
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Combined Wisdom
December 7, 2016
Twelve brilliant quotes from a year’s worth of “Sitting Down With...”
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News and Research
Sample Preparation
News and Research
Technology
Data and AI
Materials Science
Chemical
Chromatography
Liquid Chromatography
Chromatography
Gas Chromatography
Chromatography
Chromatography
Business & Entrepreneurship
Sponsored
Protein measurements with the Zetasizer µV
November 22, 2016
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Sensors
Sample Preparation
Sensors
News and Research
Technology
Data and AI
Petrochem
Environmental
Materials Science
Chromatography
Liquid Chromatography
Chromatography
Gas Chromatography
Chromatography
Chromatography
Sponsored
Performance of Polymer Solutions for Enhanced Oil Recovery
November 22, 2016
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VUV Versus Industry
November 9, 2016
In the first article of this three part series, we learned how academia was reacting to vacuum ultraviolet detection for gas chromatography (tas.txp.to/1116/VUVacademy). But how does it fare in real-world applications in industry? Here, we speak to Hans-Gerd Janssen (Unilever), Pierre Giusti and Gaelle Jousset (TOTAL) to find out.
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