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Single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) production in DNA aptamer generation, Citartan Marimuthu, Thean-Hock Tang, Junji Tominaga, Soo-Choon Tan and Subash C. B. Gopinath, Analyst, 2012, 137, 1307-1315
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23 Feb 2012
Analyst issue 6 now online
23 Feb 2012
Analyst issue 6 is now published online with three exciting articles featured on the covers!
The front cover of this issue highlights work by Jin Cheng and colleagues from Tsinghua University and the National Engineering Research Centre for Beijing Biochip Technology, China. The group developed an electrical cell-substrate impedance sensing system for assessing in vitro cytotoxicity of anticancer drugs in a human kidney cell model. This system allowed for continuous and automatic measurements with a better resolution for drugs with different toxicity profiles.
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Analyst issue 4, 2012 – now online!
26 Jan 2012
The latest issue of Analyst is now available online!
In this issue, the front cover features work by Aaron Timperman and colleagues from West Virginia University, USA, who report the fabrication and performance of a microfluidic traveling-wave electrophoresis system, a promising new separation technique. It uses a locally defined traveling electric field wave within a microfluidic channel in order to achieve band transport and separation. The authors anticipate that this technique will open up many future lab-on-a-chip applications, processes and systems.
Fabrication and performance of a microfluidic traveling-wave electrophoresis system, Kyoo D. Jo, Jarrod E. Schiffbauer, Boyd E. Edwards, R. Lloyd Carroll and Aaron T. Timperman, Analyst, 2012, 137, 875-883
The inside front cover of this issue highlights work by Hui-Fen Wu and Kamlesh Shrivas from the National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, who report the rapid and sensitive protein extraction by cobalt oxide nanoparticle-based liquid-liquid microextraction coupled with MALDI-MS. The show for the first time that the metal oxide nanoparticles prepared in the organic phase can be successfully applied to the extraction and preconcentration of proteins, and their approach offers distinct advantages including high sensitivity for washing and separation-free MALDI-MS analysis of proteins.
Rapid and highly sensitive protein extraction viacobalt oxide nanoparticle-based liquid–liquid microextraction coupled with MALDI mass spectrometry, Kamlesh Shrivas and Hui-Fen Wu, Analyst, 2012, 137, 890-895
These articles have been made free to access until the 8th March 2012, so why not take a look…
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Hot articles in Issue 4, 2012
26 Jan 2012
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Development of an electrochemical immunosensor for the detection of HbA1c in serum, Guozhen Liu, Sook Mei Khor, Sridhar G. Iyengar and J. Justin Gooding, Analyst, 2012, 137, 829-832 (From the Future Electroanalytical Developments collection)
A microfluidic device for the automated derivatization of free fatty acids to fatty acid methyl esters, Cindy T. Duong and Michael G. Roper, Analyst, 2012, 137, 840-846
Activity monitoring of functional OprM using a biomimetic microfluidic device, Wei Wang, Laura Monlezun, Martin Picard, Philippe Benas, Olivier Français, Isabelle Broutin and Bruno Le Pioufle, Analyst, 2012, 137, 847-852
Electric field standing wave artefacts in FTIR micro-spectroscopy of biological materials, Jacob Filik, Mark D. Frogley, Jacek K. Pijanka, Katia Wehbe and Gianfelice Cinque, Analyst, 2012, 137, 853-861
Recognize three different human telomeric G-quadruplex conformations by quinacrine, Hongxia Sun, Junfeng Xiang, Qian Li, Yan Liu, Lin Li, Qian Shang, Guangzhi Xu and Yalin Tang, Analyst, 2012, 137, 862-867
Resonance Rayleigh scattering spectra of Cu2+–adenine–WO42− system and its analytical application, Qianying Xu, Zhongfang Liu, Xiaoli Hu, Ling Kong and Shaopu Liu, Analyst, 2012, 137, 868-874
Determination of selected natural hormones and endocrine disrupting compounds in domestic wastewater treatment plants by liquid chromatography electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry after solid phase extraction, Melis Muz, M. Selcen Sönmez, Okan Tarık Komesli, Sezgin Bakırdere and Celal Ferdi Gökçay, Analyst, 2012, 137, 884-889
Issue 23 is now online
09 Nov 2011
The latest issue of Analyst is now available online.
Featured on the front cover is work from D. Marshall Porterfield and colleagues from Purdue University, USA, which illustrates single-walled carbon nanotubes modified with a single strand of DNA on Pt black. This nanocomposite 
showed enhanced biosensor performanace and could potentially be used for a variety of physiological sensing applications.
Microbiosensors based on DNA modified single-walled carbon nanotube and Pt black nanocomposites, Jin Shi, Tae-Gon Cha, Jonathan C. Claussen, Alfred R. Diggs, Jong Hyun Choi and D. Marshall Porterfield, Analyst, 2011, 136, 4916-4924.
The inside front cover of this issue features work from Detlef Günther of ETH Zurich and colleagues. They studied the addition of methane or methanol/water to an inductively coupled plasma (ICP) and found that it significantly improved the sensitivity of laser ablation-ICP-MS for some elements.
Sensitivity improvement in laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry achieved using a methane/argon and methanol/water/argon mixed gas plasma, Daniel Fliegel, Christian Frei, Gisela Fontaine, Zhaochu Hu, Shan Gao and Detlef Günther, Analyst, 2011, 136, 4925-4934.
On the back cover is research from Shuping Bi and colleagues from Nanjing University, who studied the effect of five different electrode pretreatments on the coverage of monolayers of dodecanethiol on gold.
Studies on the effect of electrode pretreatment on the coverage of self-assembled monolayers of dodecanethiol on gold by electrochemical reductive desorption determination, Guiying Feng, Tianxing Niu, Xueyan You, Zhongwei Wan, Qiuchen Kong and Shuping Bi, Analyst, 2011, 136, 5058-5063.
These articles are all free to access until the 18th December 2011!