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2026 ASMS awards honor advances in native MS, single-cell proteomics, metabolomics, and instrumentation, spotlighting mass spectrometry's scientific impact.

ASMS 2026 highlights a potential paradigm shift in metabolomics, as new evidence suggests many unknown signals are ESI artifacts.

Hans-Gerd Janssen highlights the important innovations and challenges remaining using hyphenated spearation science techniques in food analysis.

Top articles include a new “GC Connections” article on maintenance practices for modern capillary gas chromatography (GC) systems, an interview on rapid per- and polyfluoralkyl substances (PFAS) analysis, and a preview of an upcoming session at Analytica 2026 in Munich, Germany.

The analytical chemistry industry is embracing green practices through miniaturization, automation, and efficiency improvements, challenging old assumptions and reducing energy use, consumables, and laboratory footprint.

Nicholas H. Snow emphasizes the growing need for chromatography training in academia and industry, highlighting short courses, conferences, and hands-on experience as critical tools for preparing the next generation of analytical chemists.

Nicholas H. Snow highlights how AI, miniaturization, and automation are transforming GC workflows while emphasizing the continued importance of foundational analytical principles.

Unlock the potential of gas chromatography with innovative sample preparation techniques, including SPME, automation, and green chemistry for optimized workflows.

Nicholas Snow highlights the latest trends in gas chromatography, from advanced sample preparation and high-speed separations to two-dimensional GC and smarter automated workflows shaping modern analytical labs.

David S. Hage discusses how emerging chemists are trained to evaluate data critically, validate methods rigorously, and apply analytical techniques to practical, real-world challenges.

The 54th International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques (HPLC 2025), was held from June 15–19, 2025, in Bruges, Belgium. This “Column Watch” installment presents many of the highlighted topics and trends observed at this symposium.

The 2025 Gulf Coast Conference in Galveston, Texas, highlights advancements in analytical precision, chemometrics, and process-scale separation science across chromatography, spectroscopy, and elemental analysis for petrochemical, environmental, and industrial applications.

SFC Europe 2025—the 19th International Conference on Packed Column Supercritical Fluid Chromatography and Related Techniques—will be held in Basel, Switzerland, on October 5–7, 2025. LCGC International spoke to John Reilly, Maria Kristina Parr, and Larry Miller about the application of supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) outside the life sciences, and the sustainability credentials of the technique.

In this interview, John Cashman, product manager for lab filtration at Sartorius, reveals how TFF and affinity chromatography are continuing to advance biopharmaceutical analysis and meeting the needs of the new complex purification workflows that exist.

In this interview segment, Christian Mayer discusses the benefits of using pressure cycling to study prebiotic chemistry.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Prep Conference—The International Symposium on Preparative and Process Chromatography. Prep 2025 will take place in Philadelphia, USA, next week from September 29 to October 2, 2025.

LCGC International sat down with Chip Cody to discuss his work at JEOL USA, as well as how to determine when ambient ionization techniques should be used for analysis.

In this interview segment, Gerda Morlock explains how 12D hyphenation works in practice and how it improves the rapid identification of hazardous compounds compared to traditional workflows.

At Analytica USA, LCGC International sat down with Ralf Zimmermann to talk about his research.

In this clip, Ahmed Hamid addresses the advantages of using LC-IM-MS/MS over traditional microbial lipid profiling techniques and how ion mobility overcomes several key challenges in this space.

LCGC International sat down with Grinias at Analytica USA to talk about capillary-scale LC and green analytical chemistry.

LCGC International spoke to John Cashman of Sartorius about the application and TFF and how it is being improved to be more environmentally sustainable.

In this interview with Martin Gilar at Analytica USA 2025, he discusses topics related to liquid chromatography (LC) analysis of nucleic acids.

This explainer video highlights why Analytica coming to North America is a big deal in the separation science community.