Speaking of… Gender Equality
February 17, 2022
To celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2022, we’ve curated a selection of quotes on gender equality from our archive
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February 2022
Meet the analytical scientists working to enhance our understanding of the past, preserve our cultural heritage, and uncover the secrets behind artistic masterworks, in this month’s cover feature. We also introduce our new Core Topics – Mass Spectrometry, Chromatography, Spectroscopy and BioPharma – with short roundtable discussions featuring leading figures from our 2021 Power List. In our opinion column, Lisa Jones makes the case for getting more diverse people into STEM, helping them stay there, and ensuring their hard work is fairly rewarded at the top, and Ernest Teye argues not enough is being done to combat the widespread problem of food fraud. And last but not least, we Sit Down With proteome explorer Albert Heck.
Myths, Mysteries and Masterpieces
February 16, 2022
Meet the analytical scientists working to enhance our understanding of the past, preserve our cultural heritage, and uncover the secrets behind artistic masterworks. Find out: how Abbie Vandivere uncovered the secrets of the Girl with a Pearl Earring, why Richard Hark sought to put the Vinland Map debate to bed, and what it took for Luciana Carvalho and James McCullagh to unravel the mystery of the Sicán mask.
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Unveiling Life’s Rich Pattern
February 10, 2022
Metabolite patterns uncovered by NMR spectroscopy may shed light on patients with non-specific cancer symptoms
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The Mystery of the Sicán Mask
February 4, 2022
Analysis of the red paint preserved on the surface of a 1000-year-old gold mask excavated from a Middle Sicán tomb in Peru finds human blood and egg proteins – but why?
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Spectroscopic Diagnosis on the Fly?
February 1, 2022
How do spectroscopy-based devices fare among today’s portable point-of-care diagnostic technologies?
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Analytical Mythbusting
January 26, 2022
Richard Hark, LIBS expert and conservation scientist at Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, reveals his detective work in the cultural heritage sphere
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Using Mass Spec to Rewrite Textbooks
January 25, 2022
Sitting Down With… Albert J.R. Heck, Professor at the Science Faculty, Utrecht University, and Scientific Director of the Netherlands Proteomics Centre, The Netherlands
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Dynamic Analytics for Advanced Medicine Manufacture
January 24, 2022
How an integrated nESI-MS-based sample-to-analysis platform aims to automate quality monitoring in cell therapy bioprocesses
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Waters and Sartorius Collaborate to Accelerate Bioprocess Development
January 21, 2022
Is collaboration the key to accelerating cell line clone selection? We caught up with Davy Petit, Senior Director of Global Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Research Business at Waters, to find out.
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Quick Tips for LIBS
January 18, 2022
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is high throughput, you can see the elemental distribution of heterogeneous materials, and you also can analyze samples in situ without any sample preparation. But that doesn't mean you can forget good scientific practice!
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Introducing “SynTOF” – and Its Potential Impact on Alzheimer’s
January 17, 2022
How a flow cytometry and time-of-flight mass spectrometry mashup helps explore risk factors of neurodegenerative diseases
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How Can We Grow Diversity in STEM?
January 14, 2022
We need to get more diverse people into STEM, help them stay there, and ensure their hard work is fairly rewarded at the top of their professions
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Essential Mass Spec – Part I
January 6, 2022
We asked MS experts from the 2021 Power List: Is there a particular instrument you would not have been able to live without over the past 10 years?
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The Decade’s Biggest Chromatography Breakthroughs
January 4, 2022
We asked chromatography experts from the 2021 Power List: what has been the biggest breakthrough in the field over the last 10 years – and why?
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The Decade’s Biggest Spectroscopy Breakthroughs
December 28, 2021
What’s the biggest spectroscopy breakthrough in the last 10 years – and why? Four spectroscopists from our 2021 Power List have the answers.
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Popular Reflections: ProEZGC – Modeling on the Go
November 4, 2021
In 2019’s “A GC in Your Laptop,” Jaap de Zeeuw discussed ProEZGC, a web program that simulates separations allowing trainees or potential users to “play” with gas chromatography optimization. Here, we catch up on the easy GC journey.
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Positively Medieval
September 8, 2021
Portable X-ray fluorescence suggests a group of windows from Canterbury Cathedral may be the oldest stained glass windows in England – and the world
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