Spectroscopy News
Sir Martin Wood, founder of Oxford Instruments died on 23 November at the age of 94 after a short illness.
Raman spectral biomarkers and a diagnostic algorithm enable the non-invasive and early diagnosis of bacterial infections in crop plants helping plant disease management and agricultural productivity.
Raman and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopies and X-ray diffraction have shown the underlying mechanisms leading to failure of energy storage devices.
NIR spectroscopy is used to monitor the drying of coated apple chips in an investigation to encourage their consumption by children.
A deeper understanding of how unwanted elements within bio-manufactured proteins bind to the molecules developed to remove them could help researchers make purity processes more efficient.
The agreement allows numares to exploit preliminary work of Oxford University on Multiple Sclerosis biomarkers for the development of an IVD test able to detect disease progression earlier.
Hungarian and German researchers have jointly developed a NMR method that reveals changes in the structure of proteins more efficiently and accurately than before.
The 2021 winner of the Karl Norris Award of the International Council for Near Infrared Spectroscopy is Professor Yukihiro Ozaki.
FT-IR spectroscopy and tandem mass spectrometry have identified human blood and bird egg proteins in red paint covering a 1000-year-old gold mask from Peru.
The ability to combine and recombine solitons opens new applications in spectroscopy and materials processing.
In a study that used inorganic, physical and analytical chemistry to mimic respiratory droplets that can carry viruses, researchers demonstrated a mechanism that enables multiple mask materials to be protective.
Charge detection mass spectrometry enhances traditional mass spectrometry in detecting larger molecules such as coronaviruses.
Researchers at Empa in Switzerland have developed a simple device to visualise SWIR radiation.
Spectral imaging can be used as a non-destructive tool to quickly identify poultry products beyond their recommended “use-by” date and predict the number of days poultry products have been stored.
FACSS have recognised Roy Goodacre with the 2021 Charles Mann Award for Applied Raman Spectroscopy.
As a UvA professor, she will focus primarily on the application of molecular spectroscopy for the study of historic paints and their degradation.
The New York/New Jersey Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy are seeking nominations for their 2022 Gold Medal Award.
MS monitoring of phycobiliproteins, which are protein complexes abundant within cyanobacteria, has enabled simple mass spectral fingerprints to be determined that are unique to each species.
Fluorescence spectroscopy can identify contaminated drinking water and so reduce the spread of deadly diarrhoeal diseases by enabling communities to take action more quickly to limit exposure.
Raman spectroscopy and machine learning to understand the complex changes in tumours after immunotherapy. It has the potential to transform clinical methods for predicting therapy response.
