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News Medical's "Thought Leaders" series is a selection of articles written by national and international experts and trusted advisers in the life sciences industry. All the articles are written by experts who have been invited as recognised leaders in their fields to provide a "state of the art" contribution.

Deciphering the largest CRISPR system

Professor Guillermo Montoya spoke to News-Medical on his research that involved visualizing the largest and most complex CRISPR system.

17 Aug 2020

Studying the Proteome and Human Diseases using Mass Spectrometry

An interview with Amanda Hummon, discussing how mass spectrometry can be used to analyze the proteome and how this can help with the study of human disease.

From Pittcon 13 Aug 2020

Developments in Separation Science

An interview with Daniel Armstrong about the evolution of separation science and its recent and future developments.

From Pittcon 13 Jul 2020

Developing Vaccines and Therapeutics by Exploiting Structure in Spherical Nucleic Acids

An interview discussing the use of spherical nucleic acids (SNAs) and what they show about the importance of structure in pharmaceutical development.

From Pittcon 2 Jul 2020

Accelerating the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer with Mass-Spectrometry Based Techniques

An interview with Livia Eberlin, Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, discussing the development of mass-spectrometry based techniques for cancer diagnosis and improved clinical outcomes.

From Pittcon 16 Jun 2020

Determining Cannabinoids in Marijuana-Infused Edibles

Marijuana-infused edibles or medibles have increased immensely over the last 10 years. With products such as brownies and gummy bears infused with marijuana, it is more important now than ever to test these cannabis-related products.

From Pittcon 12 Jun 2020

The Role of Microphysiological Systems for Oncology and Stem Cell Research

In this interview, Dr. Nancy Allbritton from The Allbritton Lab talks to News-Medical and Life Sciences about the revolutionary technology and techniques for the application of new technologies for oncology and stem cell research.

From Pittcon 6 May 2020

Using Multiplex Assays to Discover Biomarkers for Parkinson’s Disease

In this interview, Dr. Polinski and Dr. Atabakhsh discuss the importance of developing biomarkers for Parkinson’s and the partnership between MJFF and Abcam.

From Abcam 1 May 2020

The Importance of Quality Control on Cannabis Related Products

In this interview, Joshua Crossney talks to News-Medical Life Sciences about the recent advancements in the Cannabis industry and why quality anslyis and quality control are more important now than ever for cannabis medicinal products.

From Pittcon 30 Apr 2020

Microfluidic Systems for Sweat Analysis and Neonatal Care

This interview provides insight into microfluidic systems and devices and the role they are playing in sweat analysis and neonatal care.

From Pittcon 24 Apr 2020

Combining Improved Ion Usage Efficiency with Data Independent Acquisition to Quantify Proteomes

In this interview, Dr. Ben Collins, Reader from the School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast talks to News-Medical Life Sciences about his research and work into diaPASEF workflow.

From Bruker Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry 8 Apr 2020

Investigating Human Disease with Mass Spectrometry-based Proteomics

Dr. Andrew Webb describes how his lab uses mass spectrometry-based techniques to understand the role of post-translational modifications in human disease.

From Bruker Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry 3 Apr 2020

Universal 'One-Size-Fits-All' Cancer Treatment

Andrew Sewell speaks to News-Medical about his breakthrough research, in which he has discovered a new T-Cell that could treat most cancers.

14 Feb 2020

Analysis of Postmortem Microbes using Gas Chromatography

In this interview, Katelynn Perrault, from Chaminade University of Honolulu talks to News-Medical and Life Sciences about her research into using Multidimensional Gas Chromatography to achieve odor profiling of postmortem microbes.

From Pittcon 29 Jan 2020

Sensitive Analysis of Sugars with HPLC-Electrochemical Detection

An interview with Dr. Kristin Folmert, Application & Academy, KNAUER Wissenschaftliche Geräte GmbH.

From KNAUER Wissenschaftliche Geräte GmbH 23 Jan 2020

Applying a Proteomics-based Approach to the Clinic

Matthias Mann explains why applying proteomics-based technologies such as timsTOF could accelerate the diagnosis and prediction of human disease.

From Bruker Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry 20 Nov 2019

Understanding Monoclonal Antibody Unfolding and Aggregation

A therapeutic monoclonal antibody and its Fab and Fc fragments were recently investigated using differential scanning fluorimetry, temperature-ramped dynamic light scattering, and turbidity measurements.

From Waters | Wyatt Technology 8 Nov 2019

Monitoring the Human Proteome using diaPASEF

In this interview, Dr. Hannes Röst describes how his lab are using diaPASEF to monitor the human proteome throughout a person's lifetime, and how machine learning could be used to analyze the data.

From Bruker Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry 25 Sep 2019