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Analyst is very pleased to announce the launch of our latest themed collection, focused on the topic of Biomedical Raman Imaging, guest edited by Paola Borri (Cardiff University, UK), Katsumata Fujita (Osaka University, Japan) and Analyst Advisory Board Member Wei Min (Columbia University, USA).

Raman spectroscopy has offered the potential as an optical biomedical imaging technique for many years due to the high molecular specificity, but has suffered from lack of sensitivity and the time taken for the measurements. Recent advances in instrumentation and variants on the technique such as SRS and CARS have addressed some of the limitations of the technique for biomedical imaging. This collection highlights advances in Raman spectroscopy aimed at improving the biomedical imaging capabilities and utility.

We invite submissions of articles or reviews on topics across this theme.

Accepted articles will be collated into an online collection as soon as they are accepted and the themed collection as a whole will be promoted as a complete collection in early 2021.

The submission deadline for this collection is September 30th 2020. 

If you’re interested in submitting to the collection, please contact the Editorial Office.

Images L to R: Paola, Katsumata and Wei.

We are very pleased to announce a new Analyst themed collection focusing on optical biosensor devices, guest edited by Associate Editors Ryan Bailey, Jaebum Choo, Laura Lechuga, Baohong Liu and Advisory Board member Chaoyong James Yang.

Optical biosensors have positioned themselves as one of the most successful branches of biosensor devices. The rapidly expanding of the field of optical biosensors has been possible thanks to the continuous progress is nanomaterials and nanostructures, new types of physical supports together with advanced biofunctionalization techniques, new receptors and demonstration of their applications for analyzing minimum-treated real samples, making them one of the most advanced and competitive sensing tool. The application scope of optical biosensors are wide-ranging and very diverse, including environmental, clinical, agriculture, veterinarian and security and rapidly expanding to diagnostics in resource-limited settings and personalised medicine.

The aim of this themed collection issue is to cover recent development of sensor devices combining with diverse optical detection methods. The issue will bring together the last developments in: innovative optical technologies at the transducer scheme, new nanomaterials and nanostructures, hybrid devices, improvement of sensitivity, miniaturization and multiplexing capabilities, microarray formats, sensors based on optofluidics, lab-on-chip and point-of-care platforms, new routes of biofunctionalization, single-molecule detection, covering the full spectrum of possible applications for optical biosensors.

We invite submissions of articles or reviews on topics across this theme.

Accepted articles will be collated into an online collection as soon as they are accepted and in the themed collection as a whole and will be promoted as a complete collection in Autumn/Winter 2020.

The submission deadline for this collection is 30^th April 2020.

If you’re interested in submitting to the collection, please contact the Editorial Office.

We have compiled a collection of recent papers and reviews published in Analyst on this topic. Below is a selection of these articles. The rest can be read here and are available free to access* until 15^th November.

A tri-site fluorescent probe for simultaneous sensing of hydrogen sulfide and glutathione and its bioimaging applications

Fengzao Chen, Deman Han*, Heng Liu, Shengfu Wang, Kai-Bin Li, Siqi Zhang and Wei Shia

Functionalized gold nanoparticle-enhanced competitive assay for sensitive small-molecule metabolite detection using surface plasmon resonance

Yong Cao, Bethany Griffith, Prasanna Bhomkar, David S. Wishart and Mark T. McDermott*

Recent advances in boronic acid-based optical chemosensors

Xin Wu, Xuan-Xuan Chen and Yun-Bao Jiang*

*Access is free through an RSC account (free to register)

We are very pleased to announce a new Analyst themed collection focusing on analytical nanoscience, guest edited by Analyst Associate Editor Professor Jun-Jie Zhu (Nanjing University), Tim Albrecht (University of Birmingham), Karen Faulds (University of Strathclyde) and Russ Algar (University of British Columbia).

The theme includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the application of nanomaterials and nanotechnology to enable chemical and biological analysis, sensors, and imaging; methods for the fundamental characterization of nanomaterial structure and properties; bionanotechnology; detection or characterization of nanomaterials in the environment or biological matrices; and spectroscopies and imaging methods with nanoscale resolution.

From left to right: Jun-Jie Zhu, Tim Albrecht, Russ Algar, Karen Faulds

We invite submissions of articles or reviews on topics across this broad theme.

Accepted articles will be collated in an online collection as soon as they are accepted and in the themed collection as a whole and will be promoted as a complete collection in Summer/Autumn 2020.

The submission deadline for this collection is 31^st March 2020.

If you’re interested in submitting to the collection, please contact the Editorial Office.

We have compiled a collection of recent papers and reviews published in Analyst on this topic. Below is a selection of these articles – the rest can be read here and are available free to access* until 31st October 2019.

Fluorescent organic nanoparticles (FONs) as convenient probes for metal ion detection in aqueous medium

Mukhtiar Ahmed, Muhammad Faisal,  Ayesha Ihsan,  and  Muhammad Moazzam Naseer

Paper-based SERS analysis with smartphones as Raman spectral analyzers

Fanyu Zeng,  Taotao Mou,   Chengchen Zhang,   Xiaoqing Huang,  Bing Wang,   Xing Ma  and  Jinhong Guo 

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy of microorganisms: limitations and applicability on the single-cell level

Ruben Weiss, Márton Palatinszky, Michael Wagner,  Reinhard Niessner,  Martin Elsner,  Michael Seidel and  Natalia P. Ivleva 

Ligand density quantification on colloidal inorganic nanoparticles

Ashley M. Smith, Kathryn A. Johnston,  Scott E. Crawford,  Lauren E. Marbella, and  Jill E. Millstone

Carbon dots as analytical tools for sensing of thioredoxin reductase and screening of cancer cells

Jagpreet Singh Sidhu, Ashutosh Singh, Neha Garg, Navneet Kaur and  Narinder Singh 

*Access is free through an RSC account (free to register)

Analyst has launched a themed collection focusing on versatile electrochemical approaches for sensing, biology, and energy.

Solving pressing challenges in these fields requires the development of enabling tools and strategies that converge in fundamental concepts of analysis to address materials properties and charge transfer. In this collection, we aim to cover the broad range of cutting-edge electrochemical approaches being explored for the detection of analytes and the understanding of processes relevant to energy and biological systems. These approaches encompass nanoscale electrochemistry, rational electrode design, biomolecular analysis, and interface-sensitive methods. Accordingly, this collection will feature new electroanalytical strategies in characterising energy storage and energy harvesting systems, in biomedical diagnostics, and in measurement and imaging sciences.

Joaquin Rodriguez Lopez

Damien Arrigan

Guest Editors

This collection is co-guest edited by Analyst Associate Editor Professor Damien Arrigan  (Curtin University, Australia) and Associate Professor Joaquín Rodríguez López (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA).

Submission deadline: 30th September 2019 

Contribute to this collection

We welcome submissions of original research and review articles. Articles will be added to the collection as they are accepted and the resulting issue will benefit from extensive promotion.

About Analyst

Guided by Editor-in-Chief Duncan Graham and an international team of Associate Editors and Editorial Board members, Analyst publishes analytical and bioanalytical research that reports premier fundamental discoveries and inventions, and the applications of those discoveries, unconfined by traditional discipline barriers.

Interested in contributing?

Email analyst-rsc@rsc.org

Analyst has launched a themed collection to highlight bioanalytical tools for enabling precision medicine

The emphasis of this themed issue is on bioanalytical tools for enabling precision medicine. The field of healthcare continues to move from the inefficient, one-size-fits-all-patients medicine of today, toward the data-driven and personalised medicine of tomorrow. According to the Precision Medicine Initiative led by the National Institutes of Health, precision medicine is “an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person”. In cancer, precision medicine uses specific information about the patient and their tumour to help diagnose, plan treatment, determine optimal drug levels, monitor response to therapy, and/or assess likely disease recurrence.

In this collection we aim to cover bioanalytical tools for enabling precision medicine, including imaging, spectroscopy, machine learning and miniaturised technologies on both solid tumours and liquid biopsy samples. The focus of this collection is not limited to cancer but is relevant to other diseases such as cystic fibrosis, diabetes and infectious diseases.

Guest Editors

This collection is co-guest edited by Analyst Advisory Board member Professor Steven Soper (The University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA) and Professor Andrew Godwin (Director, Molecular Oncology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, USA).

Professor Steven Soper	Professor Andrew Godwin

Submission deadline extended to 

30th June 2019 

Contribute to this collection

We welcome submissions of original research and review articles. Articles will be added to the collection as they are accepted and the resulting issue will benefit from extensive promotion.

About Analyst

Guided by Editor-in-Chief Duncan Graham and an international team of associate editors and editorial board members, Analyst publishes analytical and bioanalytical research that reports premier fundamental discoveries and inventions, and the applications of those discoveries, unconfined by traditional discipline barriers.

Interested in contributing?

Email analyst-rsc@rsc.org 

Analyst is planning a themed issue to highlight next-wave advances in single cell analyses.

The emphasis of this themed issue is on emerging analytical advances in metabolomic, lipidomic, proteomic, and glycomic approaches, as well as high-dimensional approaches that unify multiple aspects of single-cell biology and medicine. We recognize that single-cell genomics and transcriptomics have received wide attention, due to the maturing impact of these established approaches. Here, we aim to highlight the next generation of important analytical approaches and implications.

Guest Editors

This collection will be co-guest edited by Analyst Associate Editor Takehiko Kitamori (University of Tokyo, Japan), Amy Herr (University of California, Berkeley, USA), Ulf Landegren (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Masood Kamali-Moghaddam (Uppsala University, Sweden).

Takehiko Kitamori	Amy Herr	Ulf Landegren	Masood Kamali-Moghaddam

Contribute to this collection

We welcome submissions of original research and review articles. Articles will be added to the collection as they are accepted and the resulting issue will benefit from extensive promotion.

Read the growing collection of articles at rsc.li/advances-in-single-cell-analyses

About Analyst

Guided by Editor-in-Chief Duncan Graham and an international team of associate editors and editorial board members, Analyst publishes analytical and bioanalytical research that reports premier fundamental discoveries and inventions, and the applications of those discoveries, unconfined by traditional discipline barriers.

Ready to contribute?

Email analyst-rsc@rsc.org or submit online at www. mc.manuscriptcentral.com/an