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Scientists in France took 122 swabs from the smartphones of music festival goers to test for a variety of illicit drugs including cocaine and MDMA.

In this edition of “Inside the Laboratory,” Lee Blaney of the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) discusses his laboratory’s work with using liquid chromatography (LC) techniques to analyze and measure contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in water, soil, and environmental samples.

The editors of BioPharm International spoke with Christine Rozanas, PhD, global product marketing manager at Cytiva, to discuss the advantages and persistent challenges with implementing continuous downstream chromatography.

In this equipment roundup, the editors of LCGC International highlight new instruments from Bruker and Shimadzu.

Maria Concheiro of John Jay College (New York City) spoke to LCGC International about her research identifying and quantifying pharmaceuticals and drugs of abuse in river water samples collected from the Hudson and East Rivers in New York City, as well as investigating the possible source of these micropollutants

The global chromatography food testing market is estimated to exhibit a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.27% during the forecast period of 2023-2031, states a recent market assessment report on the subject.

The instrument manufacturer highlighted its new Stellar Mass Spectrometry solution at the conference in Anaheim, California, alongside other updates to its existing product line.

Davy Guillarme of the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Western Switzerland and the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) recently spoke with LCGC International about his work analyzing therapeutic oligonucleotides.

The company launched its new Xevo MRT instrument and highlighted new certifications for its chromatography columns during the conference in Anaheim, California.

LCGC’s Senior Technical Editor uses artificial intelligence (AI) platform ChatGPT to answer questions about the role of AI in separation science. Do you agree with ChatGPT?

A recent study from the University of Lyon demonstrated how mass spectrometry techniques, when coupled to data-independent acquisition (DIA), can advance omics research.

Experts from academia discussed the use of gradient boosting machine learning and AI in life sciences and medicine.

A technique to measure total phenolic content (TPC) in vegetable oils through analysis of images captured by a cellphone may prove to be easier to utilize than the traditional methods of ultraviolet/visible (UV-vis) spectrophotometry, high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), and gas chromatography (GC).

A recent paper introduced a compressed fluid-based separation process that combines carbon dioxide and ethanol to isolate portisins previously hemi-synthesized from blueberry surplus anthocyanins. The performance of the two-step separation process was compared favorably to centrifugal partitional chromatography (CPC) and conventional reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC) findings that were reported in terms of portisins content in the extract, process throughput, process efficiency, and total solvent used.

Researchers investigated the use of electric field in dried blood spot (DBS) sample preparation for the detection of steroids in newborns using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) using both regular electroporation cuvettes and a custom vial setup.

A recent paper discusses advances in hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC) in the analysis of therapeutic oligonucleotides and their impurities.

The editors of LCGC International highlighted five sessions set to take place at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry conference in Anaheim, California.

In this article, the editors of LCGC highlight some newly released laboratory products from instrument manufacturers around the world.

Exum Industries, producers of the first laser ablation laser ionization time of flight mass spectrometer (LALI-TOF-MS), announced a partnership with Edge Scientific to better promote and distribute their products.

The global portable spectrometer market is expected to reach over $4 million by 2030, according to a new market research report.

This year the conference will honor the work of nine scientists working across industry, academia, and government.

Researchers propose a suite of batch effect removal neural networks in large liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry experiments to maximize sample classification performance between conditions.

Gertrud E. Morlock, chair of food science at Justus Liebig University Giessen sat down with LCGC International to discuss the 2LabsToGo portable technology.

The 72nd American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics will take place 2–6 June 2024 in Anaheim, California.

The North Carolina Collaboratory’s partnership with Thermo Fisher Scientific’s mass spectrometry instruments is designed to further research into per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

Researchers have utilized ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UH PLC-MS/MS) to monitor 5-Fluorouracil, a medication used to treat various cancers, in dried blood spots. This process offers a simpler, more efficient method than those in place involving the monitoring of plasma.

An examination of how chromatography could be used to solve the water crisis in the American southwest.

American researchers are moving their laboratories more frequently than ever before. Here’s how that process works, according to scientists who have done it.

A report estimates that the market for chromatography software will grow at an 8.92% CAGR between 2023 and 2033.

In this edition of “Inside the Laboratory,” Paola Tiedemann, PhD, an assistant professor of chemistry at Texas Tech University, discusses her laboratory group’s work using headspace sampling techniques like solid phase microextraction coupled to gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (SPME-GC–MS) to chemically characterize odor volatiles from a range of forensic specimens.