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



The Analyst i-section 2007


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 2007 i-section

Editorial

Claire Darby and Elizabeth Hall reflect on the past year and look forward to 2007.


Forum

Kevin Francesconi discusses toxic metals species and food regulation.


Highlight

Pei-Shih Chen and Chih-Shan Li discuss real-time monitoring for bioaerosols


Articles featured in the February 2007 i-section

Editorial

Duncan Graham asks "Nanometrology-is it the next big thing in measurement?"


Forum

Miguel Valcárcel and colleagues discuss bridging the gap between analytical R&D products and their use in practice.


Articles featured in the March 2007 i-section

Forum

Glen McHale discusses surface free energy and microarray deposition technology.


Highlight

Nicholas O. Fischer, Theodore M. Tarasow and Jeffrey B.-H. Tok highlight recent advances in pathogen immunoassay sensing platforms.


Articles featured in the April 2007 i-section

Highlight

Mario Thevis and Wilhelm Schänzer discuss the mass spectrometric identification of peptide hormones in doping-control analysis.


Articles featured in the May 2007 i-section

Profile

Mengsu Yang, City University of Hong Kong and member of The Analyst Editorial Board.


Forum

David Smith and Patrik Spanel - The challenge of breath analysis for clinical diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring.


Critical Review

Stepan Shipovskov and Curt T. Reimann - Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry in enzymology: uncovering the mechanisms of two-substrate reactions.


Articles featured in the June 2007 i-section

Forum

Pankaj Vadgama - Sensor biocompatibility: final frontier in bioanalytical measurement.


Education

Gwynyth Scherperel and Gavin E. Reid - Emerging methods in proteomics: top-down protein characterization by multistage tandem mass spectrometry.


Highlight

Stefan Nagl and Otto S. Wolfbeis - Optical multiple chemical sensing: status and current challenges.


Articles featured in the July 2007 i-section

Education

Katherine J. Odenthal and J. Justin Gooding - An introduction to electrochemical DNA biosensors.


Highlight

Kevin M. Downard and Bethny Morrissey - Fingerprinting a killer: surveillance of the influenza virus by mass spectrometry.


Critical Review

Grégoire Herzog and Damien W. M. Arrigan - Electrochemical strategies for the label-free detection of amino acids, peptides and proteins.


Articles featured in the August 2007 i-section

Highlight

Pornnipa Vichchulada, Qinghui Zhang and Marcus D. Lay - Recent progress in chemical detection with single-walled carbon nanotube networks.


Critical Review

Hongquan Zhang, Qiang Zhao, Xing-Fang Li and X. Chris Le - Ultrasensitive assays for proteins.


Articles featured in the September 2007 i-section

Highlight

Fareid Asphahani and Miqin Zhang - Cellular impedance biosensors for drug screening and toxin detection.


Tutorial Review

Beata M. Kolakowski and Zoltán Mester - Review of applications of high-field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry and differential mobility spectrometry.


Articles featured in the October 2007 i-section

Forum

Hassan M. E. Azzazy and Mai M. H. Mansour - Rogue athletes and recombinant DNA technology: challenges for doping control.


Highlight

Joseph Borowsky and Greg E. Collins - Chemical and biological threat-agent detection using electrophoresis-based lab-on-a-chip devices.


Tutorial Review

Patrycja Ciosek and Wojciech Wróblewski - Sensor arrays for liquid sensing - electronic tongue systems.


Articles featured in the November 2007 i-section

Critical Review

Giselle Jiménez-Cadena, Jordi Riu and F. Xavier Rius - Gas sensors based on nanostructured materials.


Highlight

George Pasparakis and Cameron Alexander -Synthetic polymers for capture and detection of microorganisms.


Articles featured in the December 2007 i-section

Editorial

Karen M. Black and Neeraj Vats - Rapid testing of infection and disease states: the faster the better.


Forum

Vincent Linder - Microfluidics at the crossroad with point-of-care diagnostics


Perspective

Helen Lee et al. - Sample preparation: a challenge in the development of point-of-care nucleic acid-based assays for resource-limited settings.