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Reporting on the people, technology and innovations shaping #AnalyticalScience #MassSpec 🔬 https://theanalyticalscientist.com/
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A diamond sensor built for nuclear waste detection could soon help surgeons find cancer. 💎

The tiny probe detects magnetic tracer fluid to locate metastasized cells during keyhole surgery.

Read today: https://ow.ly/IZiJ50XgJMo

#MedTech #CancerResearch
🧪 Discover the innovations changing the lab landscape.

The Product Book highlights the latest tools, instruments, and technologies pushing analytical science forward. Ready to see what’s next?

📖 Check it out here: https://ow.ly/pOg650X63E5

#ScienceInnovation #LabTech
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🧠 Johns Hopkins scientists have created multi-region brain organoids that mimic whole-brain networks — modeling how different regions communicate & react to therapies.

A breakthrough for #neuroscience & #drugdiscovery.

🔗 https://ow.ly/lt4v50X8Yyx

#Organoids #BrainResearch
⚛️ “You can’t plan discoveries – but you can plan work that’s likely to lead to discoveries.”

In this article, Scott A. McLuckey shares his lifelong passion for curiosity-driven science and the thrill of turning over stones in mass spectrometry.

🔗 https://ow.ly/Yr6K50XbMFB

#MassSpec
💧 “We often don’t know what’s really in our waters.”

Juliane Hollender (Eawag & ETH Zürich) discusses her mission to uncover hidden pollutants using high-resolution mass spectrometry — and how data & collaboration can safeguard the environment.

🔗 https://ow.ly/ZKBX50Xb5s1
#EnvironmentalChemistry
The “dark metabolome” has sparked debate in metabolomics. 🌌

Oliver Jones (RMIT) traces its past, present, and future – and why careful scrutiny matters.

👉 Read more in our ongoing series: https://ow.ly/vC0I50X2b5O

#Metabolomics #DarkMetabolome
The Past, Present, and Future of the “Dark Metabolome”
Oliver Jones traces the evolution of a contested concept – and what it means for the future of metabolomics
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Megadaltons. Gigadaltons. Even teradaltons.

Mass spectrometry is entering uncharted territory — and David Clemmer explains why this changes everything.

🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/tFtL50WUoNk

#MassSpectrometry #AnalyticalScience
IVF success rates remain stubbornly low.

A new study explores whether metabolic profiling with micro-MRS could be the missing link in selecting healthier embryos—without invasive biopsies.

Read more 👉 https://ow.ly/8P6P50WZr4r

#IVF #EmbryoSelection #Metabolomics
New from Whitehead Institute & MIT: PEtracer writes permanent genetic “marks” into cells, creating a record of their ancestry.

The tool reveals how cells evolve in development and disease — with early studies mapping tumor growth in mice.

Read more 👉 https://ow.ly/qOZr50WZrGN

#Genomics
From taking apart clocks as a child to shaping the future of #MassSpectrometry 🔬⏱

David H. Russell shares how he’s building tools to tackle biology’s toughest problems — and why discovery-driven science is the key to progress.

👉 https://ow.ly/8U5k50X65LG
#Proteomics
In this interview, Agilent’s Christian Haas reveals how automation + AI are turning analytical instruments into collaborators that refine LC methods + data quality.

🔗 [https://ow.ly/TVuO50WWCyy

#AnalyticalScience #HPLC #LabAutomation
🧠 Johns Hopkins scientists have created multi-region brain organoids that mimic whole-brain networks — modeling how different regions communicate & react to therapies.

A breakthrough for #neuroscience & #drugdiscovery.

🔗 conexiant.com/articles/nex...

#Organoids #BrainResearch
🌍 How can analytical science drive the energy transition?

The first Transition Analytics for Decarbonization (TAD) conference kicks off in Paris 🇫🇷 (Oct 1–3), bringing experts together on CO₂ capture, hydrogen, solar, plastics, batteries & more.

Read more: theanalyticalscientist.com/issues/2025/...
New Event Explores Analytical Science’s Vital Role in Decarbonization
Pierre Giusti offers a snapshot of what to expect at the first Transition Analytics for Decarbonization (TAD) conference in Paris
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“Drowning in features; thirsty for answers.”

At #ASMS2025, Susan Richardson spotlighted the toughest challenge in MS: identifying unknowns.
🔹 Microplastics & wildfire impacts on water
🔹 Periodic Table of Food Initiative
🔹 Can AI finally close the gap?

Read more 👉 ow.ly/lOKg50WNvm7
#MassSpec #Omics
🚨 Nominations close soon! 🚨

The Analytical Scientist Innovation Awards 2025 are looking for the tech, tools & software redefining analytical science.

🧪 Eligible releases: Oct 18, 2024 – Sep 22, 2025
📅 Deadline: Sept 22, 2025

Submit your pick ➡️ theanalyticalscientist.com/issues/2025/...
💡 Thinking about adopting a LIMS?

When to invest, how to choose, and what to avoid — we asked 3 experts:
🔹 Richard Danielson
🔹 Dan DeHoney
🔹 Denise Bell

Their roundtable insights cover compliance, AI, automation & more.

🔗 Read here: www.theanalyticalsci...
#LIMS
🚨 Breakthrough: Magnetic spin waves (magnons) mapped at the nanoscale with electron microscopy for the first time.

This milestone opens new doors for energy-efficient spintronic devices.

🔗 www.theanalyticalsci...

#Magnonics
Does in-source fragmentation (ISF) distort metabolomics data — or can soft ionization reveal what we’ve been missing?

Plasmion’s Jan-Christoph Wolf argues SICRIT can bring parts of the “dark metabolome” into view.

🔗 Read more: ow.ly/JJBx50WQcyZ

#Metabolomics #MassSpec
A new chromatographic material claims performance beyond the state-of-the-art. But can it deliver—and why?

Bo Zhang invites the field to weigh in on whether this marks the next leap in separation science—or raises fresh questions.

Join the conversation: www.theanalyticalsci...

#Chromatography
How do we fix the chromatography talent pipeline?

At #HPLC2025, experts shared 10 ideas — from Spring Schools to rebranding chemistry itself.

👀 Could “molecular measurement science” attract new minds?

🧪 Read the roundup: ow.ly/lz3050WpKZU
#AnalyticalScience
🚀 At #ASMS2025, Boone Prentice saw more than cutting-edge science — he saw community, collaboration & optimism.

Highlights:
🔹 Multimodal + multiomics approaches
🔹 Advances in isomer resolution
🔹 A spirit of resilience amid challenges

Read his take 👉 theanalyticalscientist.com/issues/2025/...
🌟 Special Edition: Mass Spectrometry 2025

From new ion sources to powerful computational tools, mass spec is pushing boundaries and reshaping science.

🔬 Trends + challenges
🧠 Insights from Clemmer, Prentice & Richardson
📈 2025’s standout research

👉 Read now: ow.ly/o8r450WMCNR

#MassSpectrometry
Special Edition: Mass Spectrometry in 2025
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🚀 The Analytical Scientist Power List 2025 is LIVE

Meet the 30 thinkers shaping the future of analytical science.

Instead of nominations, we asked scientists to answer one of three pivotal questions for the field. Our expert panel chose the 30 most compelling answers 🔗 ow.ly/ASlw50WA1uX
The Power List 2025 – Leading Voices Edition
<p>Thought-provoking answers to the field’s biggest questions – and a celebration of those shaping its future</p>
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“We’re entering the age of consumer photonics.”
#Spectroscopy is stepping out of the lab and into the real world.

🍎 Food quality 🩺 Non-invasive diagnostics 🌍 Environmental sensing

Discover what’s driving this shift in expert Q&A with Boris Mizaikoff.
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