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As detection limits continue to push boundaries and penalties become increasingly severe, is the system becoming unfair to athletes? We explore the explosive issue of sports doping in our cover feature. Elsewhere, Victoria Samanidou argues we all have a role to play in maintaining standards in citation ethics; and Mark Barrow explains how the development of new methods to unravel the most complex mixture of all – petroleum – bears fruit in many other applications areas. We also continue with our new Core Topics – Mass Spectrometry, Chromatography, Spectroscopy and (Bio)Pharma – with research highlights, short opinion pieces and interviews. And finally, we Sit Down With “FPOP Star” Lisa Jones.
March 23, 2022
To all honorable athletes out there, be careful where you source your supplements – they could be laced with anabolic steroids! But fear not, because Xia Xu and her team at Zhengzhou University have developed a 2–5 fold more sensitive detection method, which she discusses here.
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March 22, 2022
You might think you know who won, but the race isn’t over until the analytical scientists have had their say… As detection limits continue to push the boundaries – and as penalties become increasingly severe – is the system becoming unfair to athletes?
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March 18, 2022
Analytical science can take cell therapy manufacturing to the next level: in-line measurement of critical quality attributes
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March 17, 2022
Cheating athletes may be on the cusp of being able to enhance their sports performance through gene modification. Mario Thevis talks us through his team’s efforts to answer the crucial question: Could we ever know?
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March 15, 2022
Join Christopher D. Chouinard on a tour of the latest mass spec and ion mobility advances enabling the identification of “novel” – potentially performance enhancing – substances
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March 14, 2022
Inaccurate labeling is rife among delta-8 THC vaporizers, with many containing unlabeled adulterants and unintended byproducts
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March 9, 2022
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy-based urine profiling has linked the Mediterranean diet with good metabolic health
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March 7, 2022
Can games be used to predict human behavior – such as unethical decision making in a pharmaceutical production environment?
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March 3, 2022
Photoluminescence spectroscopy sheds light on early signs of concrete damage
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February 22, 2022
How can we take GCxGC to the next level? Katelynn A. Perrault, Associate Professor of Forensic Sciences and Chemistry at Chaminade University of Honolulu in Hawaii, believes data science is the key…
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February 21, 2022
Maintaining standards in citation ethics is a responsibility that lies with each of us
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February 15, 2022
Richard Hark, conservation scientist at Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, argues that chemometric tools are what’s needed to take LIBS to the next level
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February 14, 2022
Now’s the time to realize the many advantages of mass spectrometry imaging in clinical research
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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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January 12, 2022
Sitting Down With… Lisa Jones, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA
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January 7, 2022
Cell and gene therapies are incredibly exciting, but without the right predictive analytical methods and tools to ensure safety and efficacy, the field will be held back
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October 21, 2021
“Chromatography: Winning Every Battle, Losing the War?” In 2015, Hans-Gerd Janssen argued that other techniques are beating chromatography and mass spectrometry to the hero’s reward all too often. Has best-in-class triumphed over fit-for-purpose?
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