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The home of high impact research in analytical, bioanalytical and detection science.



The Analyst i-section 2006


The i-section collects together all of the general interest and topical elements of The Analyst. Included are the editorialperspectivesforum articles, highlights, an education section, tutorial and critical reviews, people and laboratory profiles.

Articles featured in the January 2006 i-section

Editorial

Claire Darby and Mike Thompson reflect on the past year and look forward to 2006, and introduce the new Chair of The Analyst  Editorial Board.


Highlight

Craig E. Banks and Richard G. Compton - New electrodes for old: from carbon nanotubes to edge plane pyrolytic graphite.


Profile

Jane Thomas-Oates, University of York, UK


Critical Review

Marco D'Alessandro and Ted C. J. Turlings - Advances and challenges in the identification of volatiles that mediate interactions among plants and arthropods.


Articles featured in the February 2006 i-section

Editorial

Dana Spence and Justin Gooding introduce the contributions to the Emerging Investigators Issue


Profile

Profiles of the contributors to the Emerging Investigators Issue.


Articles featured in the March 2006 i-section

Profile

Frank V. Bright, University at Buffalo, USA


Critical Review

Robin K. Harris - NMR studies of organic polymorphs & solvates


Articles featured in the April 2006 i-section

Tutorial Review

J. Kruusma et al. - An introduction to thiol redox proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum and a review of current electrochemical methods of detection of thiols


Articles featured in the May 2006 i-section

Highlight

Jae Ho Shin and Mark H. Schoenfisch - Improving the biocompatibility of in vivo sensors via nitric oxide release


Critical Review

Bree A. Gorman, Paul S. Francis and Neil W. Barnett - Tris(2,2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) chemiluminescence


Articles featured in the June 2006 i-section

Education

Enid N. Gatimu, Jonathan V. Sweedler and Paul W. Bohn - Nanofluidics and the role of nanocapillary array membranes in mass-limited chemical analysis


Articles featured in the July 2006 i-section

Highlight

Wei Li - Multidimensional HRMAS NMR: a platform for in vivo studies using intact bacterial cells


Profile

Richard Compton, University of Oxford, UK


Articles featured in the August 2006 i-section

Editorial

Elizabeth Hall, Mike Thompson and Claire Darby discuss The Analyst and the science of detection


Highlight

Yuji Kimura and Piero R. Bianco discuss single molecule studies of DNA binding proteins using optical tweezers


Critical Review

David I. Ellis and Royston Goodacre discuss metabolic fingerprinting in disease diagnosis: biomedical applications of infrared and Raman spectroscopy


Articles featured in the September 2006 i-section

Forum

James Watterson - Challenges in forensic toxicology of skeletonised human remains


Critical Review

Richard Knochenmuss - Ion formation mechanisms in UV-MALDI


Articles featured in the October 2006 i-section

Forum

Ian D. Wilson et al.  - A pragmatic and readily implemented quality control strategy for HPLC-MS and GC-MS-based metabonomic analysis.


Critical Review

Bobby Pejcic, Roland De Marco and Gordon Parkinson - The role of biosensors in the detection of emerging infectious diseases


Articles featured in the November 2006 i-section

Forum

Peter Horvatovich, Natalia Govorukhina and Rainer Bischoff discuss 'Biomarker discovery by proteomics: challenges not only for the analytical chemist'


Tutorial Review

R. Scott Martin, Paul Root and Dana Spence examine 'Microfluidic technologies as platforms for performing quantitative cellular analyses in an in vitro environment'


Articles featured in the December 2006 i-section

Education

D. Brynn Hibbert discusses the uncertainty of a result from a linear calibration