Tips and Tricks for Lab Efficiency
Posted on July 15th, 2020
The content of this post first existed as a three part series published throughout June and July 2020. They were…
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Tips and Tricks for Lab Efficiency Volume 3
Posted on July 3rd, 2020
Welcome to the third edition of Tips and Tricks for Lab Efficiency. After this one, we will take a brief…
Tips and Tricks for Lab Efficiency Volume 1
Posted on June 19th, 2020
Times of disruption often offer us a chance to change habits, take stock and reflect on the ways we’ve always…
Linking Sustainability with Business Priorities
Posted on February 12th, 2020
This document features examples taken from Building A Business Case – Email us for a copy. Constant media coverage on…
4 Predictions for 2019: A recap
Posted on January 8th, 2020
This time last year we peered our beady eyes into our crystal balls and made some predictions for the year…
We Have an LC-MS!
Posted on October 21st, 2019
We’ve long been pretty widely referred to as ‘those plucky, excellent looking bunch of scientists who stick autosamplers on the…
Seven Speakers Confirmed for the SIFT-MS Interest Group Meeting
Posted on May 15th, 2019
This 2 day event will take place at the Hotel Felix and Anatune on the 9th/10th July 2019, and will…
Extractable and Leachable Test Protocols – Innovation through Collaboration
Posted on February 26th, 2019
Those of you who have been to our demo lab know we like our GC/Q-TOFs. You may also know that…
Second Guest Speaker Confirmed for the Watermation Workshop
Posted on November 21st, 2018
Watermation is just around the corner on the 27th and 28th November. Amongst the many talks, Derek Slater at SembCorp…
Aroma and Flavour Analysis in Food and Beverage Samples Webinar
Posted on November 14th, 2018
Flavour and fragrance matching, whether it is natural sources such as flowers or your competitor’s products, requires the analyst to…
Upcoming Webinar on Automated Environmental Sample Analysis
Posted on September 18th, 2018
On 10th October in collaboration with Agilent, I will be hosting a Webinar showcasing the environmental work we’ve done over…
Water Analysis – Changes are on the Way
Posted on August 14th, 2018
This is an exciting time. The sensitivity of the mass specs has reached a turning-point where, in the analysis of…
Final Guest Speaker Confirmed for the Life Science Workshop
Posted on June 12th, 2018
Bryan White is the GC and GCMS Product Specialist at Agilent Technologies. Bryan has kindly agreed to guest present at…
3rd Guest Speaker Confirmed for our Life Science’s Workshop
Posted on May 30th, 2018
Dr Hannah Florance is the Metabolomics Specialist and Mass Spectrometrist at the University of Edinburgh. Hannah has kindly agreed to…
Second Guest Speaker Confirmed for our Life Science’s Workshop
Posted on May 10th, 2018
Dr Thomas Howard, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle. Dr Howard has kindly agreed to guest…
Life Science’s Workshop
Posted on April 5th, 2018
Here at Anatune we will be running a 2-day workshop on the 19th-20th June 2018, to help scientists working in…
Life Science’s Workshop – First Guest Speaker Confirmed
Posted on April 5th, 2018
Phil Kay, PhD, is a Senior Analytics Consultant for JMP, a business unit of SAS. Phil has kindly agreed to…
The Three C’s Rule of Automation
Posted on March 20th, 2018
Automation is our bread and butter. It’s what we do: providing analytical solutions which feature automated sample preparation coupled to…
The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread
Posted on March 13th, 2018
In 1928, Otto Frederick Rohwedder established the ultimate bench-mark – by inventing the bread slicing machine. The separation funnel is…
Advances in LC/GC/MS for Metabolomics, Biotechnology & Life Sciences
Posted on March 6th, 2018
On the 19th and 20th June 2018, Anatune will run a two-day workshop in Cambridge, to introduce innovations that are…
Automation of Forensic Toxicology Sample Preparation and Analysis
Posted on March 1st, 2018
Anatune and GERSTEL are very pleased to attend and present at the joint London Toxicology Group (LTG)/United Kingdom and Ireland…
GC-MS Sample Preparation – Automation 101
Posted on October 31st, 2017
Two weeks ago, I gave a talk with this title at a meeting organised by the Chromatographic Society (Advances in…
A Trip to the RSC Theatre? To automate, or not to automate… that is the question!
Posted on October 24th, 2017
I will be presenting at the Royal Society of Chemistry Theatre at Lab Innovations 2017 on the 1st November, which…
Automated Approaches to GC/Q-TOF Analysis
Posted on October 20th, 2017
Earlier this month, we attended the Agilent GC/Q-TOF User Group Meeting at MIB in Manchester, which saw a great set…
Affinity Water – IChemE Global Awards Finalist 2017
Posted on October 17th, 2017
I am very pleased to say that Affinity Water (alongside Anatune and JR Pridham Services) have been shortlisted for an…
Working with Industry for the Future of Lab Automation
Posted on July 4th, 2017
Figure 1: Personalised Metabolomics Solution at the Synthetic and Systems Biology Lab at the University of Edinburgh – ‘Scotland’s Beastie’…
Automating the Impossible
Posted on April 4th, 2017
A few months ago, I was asked by some prospective customers to pay them a visit, to discuss a sample…
Toxtastic Initial Results for Opiates in Blood Automated Solution
Posted on March 16th, 2017
Many forensic toxicology service labs are facing increasing casework, often times with reduced staff numbers. Having had many years of…
A Year Down the Line: Life as an Application Chemist
Posted on March 14th, 2017
January 4th, 2016… that’s when my life as an Application Chemist here at Anatune began. Thing is, instrumental analytical chemistry…
Advanced Automation for Sample Preparation Workshop
Posted on March 8th, 2017
Here at Anatune we highly value automation. Automation can help save time, efforts and often costs. If we strictly focus…
High-Throughput VOC and Inorganic Gas Analysis: Automated SIFT-MS
Posted on March 7th, 2017
Over the last 18 months we have been working in partnership with Syft Technologies to enhance the potential of…
Environmental and Food Mass Spectrometry User Meeting – Environmental Spotlight
Posted on January 24th, 2017
Coming up between the 7th and 9th February is the Agilent Environmental and Food Mass Spectrometry User Meeting, which is…
Automated Determination of THC, CBN and CBD in Human Hair
Posted on January 13th, 2017
From a forensic toxicology point of view, human hair samples are extremely well suited for determining a person’s consumption pattern…
GC-MS Automation and SIFT-MS come to Ireland
Posted on January 6th, 2017
Learn how you could save money, solvent, time and get results that are faster and more reproducible! Anatune, the distributors…
Agilent Environmental and Food User Meeting – 7th-9th February 2017, Manchester
Posted on December 22nd, 2016
This is always a brilliant meeting. This will be the 16th occasion that this meeting has gone ahead, and my…
Automated Liquid-Liquid Extraction Methodologies
Posted on November 10th, 2016
In October, Anatune attended the Diamond Jubilee Year ChromSoc meeting hosted by Syngenta Research Laboratories. The meeting was accompanied with…
A Lab on a Rail
Posted on October 7th, 2016
Recently I have been working on the automation of several workflows for metabolomics applications. As it usually happens in busy…
The Analysis of Distilled Spirits – Chromatography Sample Preparation & Automation
Posted on July 22nd, 2016
On Tuesday, 4th October and Wednesday, 5th of October, Anatune is running two one-day workshops on chromatography sample preparation and…
Cannabinoid Automation
Posted on May 19th, 2016
A recent article published in Journal of Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry (DOI 10.1007/s00216-016-9537-5) details the automation of a liquid-liquid extraction…
Automated Sample Preparation for Drinking Water Labs
Posted on April 15th, 2016
Sample prep automation gives valuable advantages: Greater productivity Improved data quality Faster sample turnaround We introduced our Lunch and Learn…
The Significance of Automated Centrifugation
Posted on January 29th, 2016
In the automation of sample preparation methods, there are a few things that only a centrifuge can do properly: Separate…
GC-MS Automation – The Pareto Principle
Posted on November 27th, 2015
“80% of people know about the Pareto Principle, only 20% ever apply it.” The Pareto Principle (or 80:20 rule) is…
Automating Sample Filtration for UHPLC
Posted on September 24th, 2015
Ultra High Pressure Liquid Chromatography is a popular and powerful analytical technique, however, if your samples contain solid particles, these…
Sample Prep Automation for Contract Laboratories
Posted on January 14th, 2015
On March 17th, 18th and 19th, we will be running a series of one-day workshops entitled: “On-line Sample Preparation for…
Automation Equals Success
Posted on January 13th, 2015
We will shortly be launching AUTOPREP by Anatune as a brand name for a range of solutions involving sample preparation…