September 2026

Kinjal Bhatt and Ina Varfaj redefine career success around energizing work and personal balance, moving past publications and promotions.

Kinjal Bhatt says belonging comes from team culture, not headcount, while Ina Varfaj's goal as her lab's only woman is making sure she isn't the last.

Kinjal Bhatt and Ina Varfaj call AI a chromatography equalizer only if training and access keep pace, framing the risk as implementation, not technology.

Kinjal Bhatt would expose early-career scientists to the field sooner, while Ina Varfaj says a broken chromatography column taught her failure is normal.

Advances in DNA/RNA chromatography columns led to stable, pure mRNA production, supporting the development of COVID-19 vaccines rapidly.

Kinjal Bhatt and Ina Varfaj describe imposter syndrome fading through repeated exposure and conference talk rather than a single breakthrough moment.

Mass spectrometry can teach core chemistry concepts beyond technique training or product characterization, though adoption barriers remain.

Automated sequential tube sampling and chemometrics supplement GC–MS, adding time profiling and fast product-line comparison for real-world insight.

Revisiting insertion distance for methanol and methylene chloride in GC analysis and confirming that insertion depth strongly affects response and reproducibility.

SFC Europe 2026 brings global experts to Basel for courses, scientific talks, workshops, and insights into greener separation technologies.

A novel SFC–QTOF-MS method accurately detected 10 drugs in oral fluid, matching LC–MS/MS in 83 DUID cases while reducing run time by 42% and organic solvent use by 81%.

Waters' Erin Chambers says combining column chemistry and particle-physics innovation cut a GLP-1 impurity profiling workflow from three hours to under one.

Analytical science's real unwritten rule is that you don't need to feel ready, and good results simply take patience.

Kinjal Bhatt argues inclusion advocacy shouldn't fall on women alone, while Ina Varfaj credits sharing the load and learning to say no for avoiding burnout.

Kinjal Bhatt and Ina Varfaj trace their pull toward analytical science to a saturated chromatography peak and the moment their first chiral peaks separated.

Liquid chromatography/multiple reaction monitoring (LC/MRM) assays quantify endocannabinoid shifts behind the marathon runner's high.

Machine learning boosts gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) urine testing for bladder cancer detection.

Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) reveals PFAS migration into saliva from children's stuffed toys.