2+ hour, 35+ min ago   (229+ words) Mass spectrometry & spectroscopy A comprehensive review of 20 years of green analytical chemistry has concluded that no existing tool can measure the full environmental, safety and resource footprint of pharmaceutical testing on its own and has called for laboratories to combine…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (382+ words) Labmate-Online Three perspectives on modern laboratory infrastructure Successful laboratories are shaped long before the first sample is analysed. Careful planning, close collaboration and a clear understanding of future requirements are often what determine whether a laboratory will perform successfully for…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (155+ words) Mass spectrometry & spectroscopy However, they all have drawbacks. Inherent bias is common, as are issues with reliability and ruggedness – the ability to cope with small changes in sample or system. Enter the latest development in headspace extraction: Vacuum In-Tube Extraction…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (150+ words) The Benaglia Group at the Università degli Studi di Milano has published seven peer-reviewed papers over two and a half years, demonstrating a series of stereoselective methodologies and pharmaceutical applications developed using the Syrris Asia Flow Chemistry System. The work…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (182+ words) A case study from Syrris highlights how researchers at Sygnature Discovery have successfully used continuous flow chemistry to manage hazardous reactions safely and efficiently at scale. “Scaling up with Asia was a simple process where we ran the system for…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (156+ words) Interferences mainly arise from bile acid–related substances, especially taurocholic acid isomers present in animal-derived foods such as meat, fish and eggs. In negative electrospray ionisation mode these compounds produce the same SRM transition as PFOS (m/z 499 → 80). If chromatographic…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (279+ words) Time is running out – only a few weeks left until the analytica 2026, the world's largest and most successful trade fair for Analysis, Laboratory Technology, and Biotechnology, taking place from March 24th to 27th, 2026 in Munich. analytica offers insights into the future lab…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (451+ words) Researchers at Kobe University have engineered the bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli) to produce a class of plant-derived compounds with anticancer, anti-HIV, antidiabetic and anti-inflammatory activities, in a development that could transform the industrial supply of promising drug candidates. Previous attempts…...

6+ mon, 2+ hour ago   (595+ words) “I’ve always been fascinated by developing microscopy techniques that can image things we haven’t seen before,” said Dr. Debsankar Saha Roy, a fellow in the laboratory of Maxim Prigozhin at Harvard University. “We’re building a multicolour electron microscope – a technique…...