LCGC TV: Hyphenated Techniques

July 8th 2015

In this new video from LCGC TV, Christian Wachsmuth from the University of Regensburg in Germany compares the performance of different ionization methods for GC–MS in metabolic fingerprinting. He also goes on to talk about how GC–MS could be applied in a clinical setting and what developments are needed for this to happen.

May 21st 2015

In this video, Robert T. Kennedy of the University of Michigan discusses the role of liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) in the rapid development of metabolomics and the challenge of dealing with all the data. He then goes onto talk about the methods used in a recent study on glucose metabolism to analyse complex metabolic pathways and the challenges of using smaller samples.

May 13th 2015

Estrogen is implicated in numerous regulatory roles in the human body, and even when present at low concentrations it can have a big effect on physiological processes. Kevin Schug from the University of Texas Arlington, USA, gives the main factors to consider when analyzing different types of biological fluids and gives his advice for scientists who want to begin using 2D LC–MS–MS.

April 8th 2015

Mycotoxins are an important group of secondary metabolites produced by fungi that can cause disease in humans and animals. Rudolf Krska from BOKU, IFA-Tulln, in Vienna, Austria, describes why he uses LC–MS–MS in his analysis of mycotoxins and offers advice to separation scientists thinking about using the technique in their research.