Analytical Methods Blog

Maquieira et al., Anal. Methods, 2012, Advance Article

By Pui Sai Lau, Web Writer

Many people loathe the aches and pains attributed to influenza (or flu) infection, which is especially prevalent during the winter months. However, depending on the aggressiveness of the pathogen subtype, more severe health complications including mortality can occur, particularly in infants and the elderly. While several detection methods are available for influenza diagnosis, limitations still exist such as long-analysis time, requirement of intensive labor and high cost. To tackle some of these issues, Ángel Maquieira and colleagues from Valencia, Spain have developed a sandwich immunoassay on commercial DVDs that makes use of a standard DVD reader for quantification. Check out their discovery by accessing the link below!

Influenza A virus infection diagnosis based on DVD reader technology
María-José Bañuls, María-Victoria González-Pedro, Rosa Puchades and Ángel Maquieira
Anal. Methods, 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2AY25493J

Paull et al., Anal. Methods, 2012, Advance Article

This month we have a HOT article from Brett Paull, the Editor in Chief of Analytical Methods. Sialic acids have many biological roles. The importance of sialic acids to a glycoprotein’s half-life means that there is a strong need to determine the sialic acid content of a glycoprotein when examining its function and activity as a potential therapeutic. A team from Ireland and Australia, have developed a very rapid and analytically robust method that can quantitatively determine total free sialic acid, based upon monolithic reversed-phase chromatography. This method has been developed and specifically applied to process a range of very complex samples from the biopharmaceutical industry. This article will be free to read for 2 weeks.

Rapid and sensitive chromatographic determination of free sialic acid in complex bio-pharma fermentation media samples
Hassan Alwael, Damian Connolly and Brett Paull
Anal. Methods, 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2AY25299F

Xu et al, Anal. Methods, 2012, Advance Article

By Laura Ruvuna, Web Writer

Sensors don’t always require expensive equipment or complex attachment chemistries, and when possible a visual color change is enough. In this HOT article, Maotian Xu and colleagues from Shangqiu Normal University, China, have detected lysine effectively and cheaply using the colorimetric properties of gold nanoparticles during aggregation. The lysine content in food is important for growth and development, and using this assay it was detected in three different commercial food sources. In addition to the visual change, the UV-Vis spectra scaled linearly with lysine concentration. See more about this simple but sensitivity system below, it will be free to read for 2 weeks.

Colorimetric detection of lysine using gold nanoparticles aggregation
Yanli Zhou,  Zhichong Yang and Maotian Xu
Anal. Methods, 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2AY25475A

Take a look at some of the HOT articles we’ve published recently in Analytical Methods! These papers cover a wide variety of topics such as analysis of food, water pollution, zeolite columns and quantum dots. These papers will be free to access for 2 weeks.

Sensitive and rapid monitoring of water pollution level based on the signal enhancement of an activated glassy carbon electrode
Can Wu, Shijin Yu, Bin Lin, Qin Cheng and Kangbing Wu
Anal. Methods, 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2AY25523E

Determination of trace leaching phthalate esters in water by magnetic solid phase extraction based on magnetic multi-walled carbon nanotubes followed by GC-MS/MS
Yanna Jiao, Shanliang Fu, Li Ding, Qiang Gong, Shaohua Zhu, Libing Wang and Hui Li
Anal. Methods, 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2AY25386K

Mollica & Charles et al, Anal. Methods, 2012, Advance Article

Towards the rationalization of the MALDI process: a combined mass spectrometry/solid-state NMR approach
Yannis Major, Hélène Pizzala, Fabio Ziarelli, Trang N. T. Phan, Giulia Mollica and Laurence Charles
Anal. Methods, 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2AY25708D

Preparative size-exclusion chromatography for separation and purification of water-stable Cd-based quantum dots
Luis Alamo-Nole, Sonia Bailon-Ruiz, Oscar Perales-Perez and Felix R. Roman
Anal. Methods, 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2AY25629K

Hydrochromic fluorescence of organo-boronium-avobenzone complexes
Xuepeng Zhang and Guoqing Zhang
Anal. Methods, 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2AY25424G

Multi-branch chemiluminescence–molecular imprinting sensor for sequential determination of carbofuran and omethoate in foodstuff
Shenguang Ge, Peini Zhao, Mei Yan, Dejin Zang and Jinghua Yu
Anal. Methods, 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2AY25410G

Zhang & Zhang, Anal. Methods, 2012, Advance Article

Surface chemistry and linker effects on lectin–carbohydrate recognition for glycan microarrays
Michelle Kilcoyne, Jared Q. Gerlach, Marian Kane and Lokesh Joshi
Anal. Methods, 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2AY25532D

Determination of anionic impurities in hexafluorosilicic acid by capillary zone electrophoresis
Nerea Ayarza, Juan M. G. Góngora, Rosa María Alonso and Rosa María Jiménez
Anal. Methods, 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2AY25553G

Hierarchical Fe-ZSM-5 zeolite monolithic column for enhanced phosphorylated protein immobilization and identification
Wenzhong Zhang, Deju Wang, Huai Sun, Jun Yao, Fang Xu and Pengyuan Yang
Anal. Methods, 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2AY25454A