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Reporting on the people, technology and innovations shaping #AnalyticalScience #MassSpec 🔬

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🎉 The Analytical Scientist Innovation Awards 2025 are here!

We’re celebrating the breakthroughs shaping the future of analytical science — from instruments to ideas that are changing the game.

Read more at our website 👉 https://ow.ly/2TgH50XooEp
#InnovationAwards #AnalyticalScience
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A paper-based sensor that “sniffs” toxic gases for under 20¢ per chip. 🧪

It detects 12 chemical threats in seconds using color changes and image analysis.

Read how this low-cost innovation could transform field detection:
https://ow.ly/6r1P50XgJAm

#ToxicGasDetection #InnovativeTech
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
⚗️ In analytical science, not every innovation needs to be revolutionary to make an impact.

Frantisek Svec explores why Bo Zhang’s new monodisperse microsphere technology may not reinvent chromatography, but could transform how it’s scaled and produced.
https://ow.ly/WyvS50XmiNu
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
⚡ The Coming of Age of IMS

Once niche, ion mobility spectrometry is now a key tool for tackling molecular complexity.

Erin Baker (UNC Chapel Hill) discusses how IMS complements MS and what challenges remain.

🔗 https://ow.ly/qtcc50Xj8Wh
#AnalyticalChemistry #IonMobility #MassSpec
The Coming Of Age of IMS
Erin Baker discusses ion mobility's maturation into a core analytical tool – and the challenges that still limit wider adoption
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November 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
🌌 What if we could measure life?

In The Analytical Scientist, Leroy Cronin, Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, introduces Assembly Theory — a physics-based way to detect life by its molecular complexity.

🔗 https://ow.ly/jWyo50XckNz

#Astrobiology #Chemistry
November 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
🌍 Hidden PFAS are everywhere — in water, food, even blood.

Craig Butt of SCIEX explains how SWATH DIA mass spectrometry is uncovering previously undetected PFAS and redefining how we assess exposure.

🔗 https://ow.ly/bJEE50Xb6Tt

#PFAS #MassSpec #EnvironmentalScience
November 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A diamond sensor built for nuclear waste detection could soon help surgeons find cancer. 💎

The tiny probe detects magnetic tracer fluid to locate metastasized cells during keyhole surgery.

Read today: https://ow.ly/IZiJ50XgJMo

#MedTech #CancerResearch
November 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🧪 Discover the innovations changing the lab landscape.

The Product Book highlights the latest tools, instruments, and technologies pushing analytical science forward. Ready to see what’s next?

📖 Check it out here: https://ow.ly/pOg650X63E5

#ScienceInnovation #LabTech
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The Product Book
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October 31, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🧠 Johns Hopkins scientists have created multi-region brain organoids that mimic whole-brain networks — modeling how different regions communicate & react to therapies.

A breakthrough for #neuroscience & #drugdiscovery.

🔗 https://ow.ly/lt4v50X8Yyx

#Organoids #BrainResearch
October 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
⚛️ “You can’t plan discoveries – but you can plan work that’s likely to lead to discoveries.”

In this article, Scott A. McLuckey shares his lifelong passion for curiosity-driven science and the thrill of turning over stones in mass spectrometry.

🔗 https://ow.ly/Yr6K50XbMFB

#MassSpec
October 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
💧 “We often don’t know what’s really in our waters.”

Juliane Hollender (Eawag & ETH Zürich) discusses her mission to uncover hidden pollutants using high-resolution mass spectrometry — and how data & collaboration can safeguard the environment.

🔗 https://ow.ly/ZKBX50Xb5s1
#EnvironmentalChemistry
October 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The “dark metabolome” has sparked debate in metabolomics. 🌌

Oliver Jones (RMIT) traces its past, present, and future – and why careful scrutiny matters.

👉 Read more in our ongoing series: https://ow.ly/vC0I50X2b5O

#Metabolomics #DarkMetabolome
The Past, Present, and Future of the “Dark Metabolome”
Oliver Jones traces the evolution of a contested concept – and what it means for the future of metabolomics
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October 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Megadaltons. Gigadaltons. Even teradaltons.

Mass spectrometry is entering uncharted territory — and David Clemmer explains why this changes everything.

🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/tFtL50WUoNk

#MassSpectrometry #AnalyticalScience
October 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
IVF success rates remain stubbornly low.

A new study explores whether metabolic profiling with micro-MRS could be the missing link in selecting healthier embryos—without invasive biopsies.

Read more 👉 https://ow.ly/8P6P50WZr4r

#IVF #EmbryoSelection #Metabolomics
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
New from Whitehead Institute & MIT: PEtracer writes permanent genetic “marks” into cells, creating a record of their ancestry.

The tool reveals how cells evolve in development and disease — with early studies mapping tumor growth in mice.

Read more 👉 https://ow.ly/qOZr50WZrGN

#Genomics
October 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
From taking apart clocks as a child to shaping the future of #MassSpectrometry 🔬⏱

David H. Russell shares how he’s building tools to tackle biology’s toughest problems — and why discovery-driven science is the key to progress.

👉 https://ow.ly/8U5k50X65LG
#Proteomics
October 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
In this interview, Agilent’s Christian Haas reveals how automation + AI are turning analytical instruments into collaborators that refine LC methods + data quality.

🔗 [https://ow.ly/TVuO50WWCyy

#AnalyticalScience #HPLC #LabAutomation
October 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🧠 Johns Hopkins scientists have created multi-region brain organoids that mimic whole-brain networks — modeling how different regions communicate & react to therapies.

A breakthrough for #neuroscience & #drugdiscovery.

🔗 conexiant.com/articles/nex...

#Organoids #BrainResearch
October 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
🌍 How can analytical science drive the energy transition?

The first Transition Analytics for Decarbonization (TAD) conference kicks off in Paris 🇫🇷 (Oct 1–3), bringing experts together on CO₂ capture, hydrogen, solar, plastics, batteries & more.

Read more: theanalyticalscientist.com/issues/2025/...
New Event Explores Analytical Science’s Vital Role in Decarbonization
Pierre Giusti offers a snapshot of what to expect at the first Transition Analytics for Decarbonization (TAD) conference in Paris
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October 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“Drowning in features; thirsty for answers.”

At #ASMS2025, Susan Richardson spotlighted the toughest challenge in MS: identifying unknowns.
🔹 Microplastics & wildfire impacts on water
🔹 Periodic Table of Food Initiative
🔹 Can AI finally close the gap?

Read more 👉 ow.ly/lOKg50WNvm7
#MassSpec #Omics
September 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🚨 Nominations close soon! 🚨

The Analytical Scientist Innovation Awards 2025 are looking for the tech, tools & software redefining analytical science.

🧪 Eligible releases: Oct 18, 2024 – Sep 22, 2025
📅 Deadline: Sept 22, 2025

Submit your pick ➡️ theanalyticalscientist.com/issues/2025/...
September 15, 2025 at 9:44 AM
💡 Thinking about adopting a LIMS?

When to invest, how to choose, and what to avoid — we asked 3 experts:
🔹 Richard Danielson
🔹 Dan DeHoney
🔹 Denise Bell

Their roundtable insights cover compliance, AI, automation & more.

🔗 Read here: www.theanalyticalsci...
#LIMS
September 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🚨 Breakthrough: Magnetic spin waves (magnons) mapped at the nanoscale with electron microscopy for the first time.

This milestone opens new doors for energy-efficient spintronic devices.

🔗 www.theanalyticalsci...

#Magnonics
September 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Does in-source fragmentation (ISF) distort metabolomics data — or can soft ionization reveal what we’ve been missing?

Plasmion’s Jan-Christoph Wolf argues SICRIT can bring parts of the “dark metabolome” into view.

🔗 Read more: ow.ly/JJBx50WQcyZ

#Metabolomics #MassSpec
September 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
A new chromatographic material claims performance beyond the state-of-the-art. But can it deliver—and why?

Bo Zhang invites the field to weigh in on whether this marks the next leap in separation science—or raises fresh questions.

Join the conversation: www.theanalyticalsci...

#Chromatography
September 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM