Multidimensional chromatography cuts ion suppression in complex environmental samples by separating salts and coeluting compounds from target analytes.

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.

Tony Edge explains how SPE optimization improves oligonucleotide LC–MS data.

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

Perfusion chromatography offers improved separation of oligonucleotide biotherapeutics at ultra-high velocities.

In Part 2 of "Conversations with Michael Dong," the LCGC column editor discusses HPLC columns for pharmaceutical analysis and the case for short columns.