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Analyst i-section 2008
The i-section collects together all of the general interest and topical elements of Analyst. Included are the editorial, perspectives, forum articles, highlights, an education section, tutorial and critical reviews, people and laboratory profiles.
Articles featured in the January 2008 i-section
Editorial
Niamh O’Connor and Elizabeth Hall reflect on the past year and look forward to 2008.
Profile
Paul Bohn, The Analyst’s Editor for the Americas, from the University of Notre Dame, USA.
Critical Review
Jeffrey Bacon and Christine Davidson - Is there a future for sequential chemical extraction?
Highlight
Greg M. Swain et al. - Diamond microelectrodes for in vitro electroanalytical measurements: curent status and remaining challenges.
Articles featured in the February 2008 i-section
Profile
José Pingarrón from Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
Highlight
Xiahuo Gao and colleagues highlight ultrasenstive detection and molecular imaging with magnetic nanoparticles.
Perspective
Joel Tellinghuisen discusses least squares with non-normal data: estimating experimental variance functions.
Tutorial Review
Uwe Karst et al. explain quantitative analysis by microchip capillary electrophoresis - current limitations and problem-solving strategies.
Articles featured in the March 2008 i-section
Critical Review
Gillian McMahon and colleagues present an overview of some of the main analytical tools employed in the detection of osteoarthritis.
Forum
Sherri Johnstone discusses the question ’Is there potential for use of the Hall effect in analytical science?’
Highlight
Yves F. Dufrêne takes a look at AFM for nanoscale microbe analysis.
Articles featured in the April 2008 i-section
Highlight
Justin A. Riddle and colleagues highlight conformational dynamics for chemical sensing: simplicity and diversity.
Critical Review
Jonathan Sweedler and co-workers review the detection of nitric oxide in single cells.
Critical Review
Hai-Feng Ji and co-workers provide an overview of microcantilever biosensors based on conformational change of proteins bound to the microcantilever surface.
Articles featured in the May 2008 i-section
Editorial
Andy Bell and Pankaj Vadgama highlight the need for a multiple set of perspectives on the challenge of detecting chemical, biological, radiological and explosive materials.
Forum
Dominic Turl and Dan Wood take a step out of the lab and into the field: a giant leap from technology to capability.
Perspective
Peter Biggins and co-workers provide a perspective on bio-inspired approaches to sensing for defence and security applications.
Critical Review
Richard G. Smith and colleagues review the use of biosensors and biologically-inspired systems for explosives detection.
Articles featured in the June 2008 i-section
Highlight
Yongwon Jung, Jin Young Jeong and Bong Hyun Chung highlight recent advances in immobilization methods of antibodies on solid supports.
Critical Review
Michael Adler, Ron Wacker and Christof Niemeyer review the DNA-modification techniques used for immunoassay enhancement and the resulting key applications, in particular focussing on the highly sensitive immuno-PCR (IPCR) method.
Critical Review
Claudio Baggiani, Laura Anfossi and Cristina Giovannoli discuss the applications of molecular imprinted polymers in myco- and phyco-toxin contamination analysis.
Tutorial Review
Dilusha Dalpathado and Heather Desaire focus on glycopeptide analysis by mass spectrometry.
Articles featured in the July 2008 i-section
Critical Review
Fiona Regan and colleagues describe the use of nanoparticles in anti-microbial materials and their characterization.
Critical Review
Ilaria Palchetti and Marco Mascini look at the topic of nucleic acid biosensors for environmental pollution monitoring.
Tutorial Review
Jürgen Fritz provides a general introduction to the field of cantilever biosensors.
Articles featured in the August 2008 i-section
Highlight
Hye Jin Lee, Alastair W. Wark and Robert M. Corn highlight microarray methods for protein biomarker detection.
Highlight
Serge Cosnier and Pascal Mailley highlight recent advances in DNA sensors.
Perspective
Stephen Ellison and Michael Thompson give us a perspective on standard additions: myth and reality
Articles featured in the September 2008 i-section
Critical Review
Guanghui Han, Mingliang Ye and Hanfa Zhou review recent phosphopeptide enrichment techniques developed for phosphoproteome analysis with an emphasis on the new developments in this field in China.
Critical Review
Cheng-Xi Cao and colleagues review the theory of the moving reaction boundary, electromigration methods and applications in isoelectric focusing and sample pre-concentration.
Articles featured in the October 2008 i-section
Critical Review
Joseph Lakowicz and co-workers provide a comprehensive review of plasmon-controlled fluorescence: a new paradigm in fluorescence spectroscopy.
Highlight
Sergei Borisov and Ingo Klimant from Graz University of Technology highlight optical nanosensors as smart tools in bioanalytics.
Highlight
Facundo Fernandez and colleagues describe recent developments in ambient ionization techniques for analytical mass spectrometry.
Articles featured in the November 2008 i-section
Highlight
Kadir Aslan and Chris Geddes give a view of new tools for rapid clinical and bioagent diagnostics: microwaves and plasmonic nanostructures.
Highlight
Christelle Guillo and Michael Roper summarize several new affinity assays and describe how they are used to quantify the peptides, proteins, and small molecules used by cells to communicate to other cells and throughout the body.
Tutorial
Kathrin Eckhard and Wolfgang Schuhmann provide a review covering publications involving AC-SECM from its beginning to date. The findings of several research groups are thematically structured along with the specific experimental procedures. This should enable researchers to rationally choose purposeful parameters for their AC-SECM experiments.
Articles featured in the December 2008 i-section
Highlight
Adam Ptolemy and Philip Britz-McKibbin highlight new advances in on-line sample preconcentration by capillary electrophoresis using dynamic pH junction.
Perspective
Qiaoling Charlene Zeng, Elizabeth Zhang and Joel Tellinghuisen present a case study of univariate calibration by reversed regression of heteroscedastic data.
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