A Revolutionary Approach to the Real-Time Analysis of Breath
Posted on September 5th, 2019
At last, a thermal desorption system is available that can be used with both GC/MS and SIFT-MS and has the…
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The CF200 Robotic Centrifuge Certified Solvent Safe
Posted on July 23rd, 2019
Until now, very few centrifuges have been certified as safe for use with flammable solvents. Those that are certified, have…
2019 SIFT-MS Interest Group Meeting: Day 1 Round-Up
Posted on July 12th, 2019
And so concludes the 2019 SIFT-MS Interest Group Meeting. It was a great showcase of the diversity of how this…
Anatune in County Westmeath – Save the Date
Posted on May 10th, 2019
Anatune are hosting a demonstration of the GERSTEL MPS Robotic in County Westmeath, Ireland. This one day event will take…
South East Water – the route to validation for automated liquid-liquid extraction method for Organochloro Pesticides
Posted on November 5th, 2018
We’re proud to announce a presentation from South East Water at our Watermation Workshop on the 27th and 28th November….
Watermation Workshop – An Afternoon in the Anatune Lab
Posted on October 18th, 2018
The lab is at the heart of everything we do at Anatune and there’s been a particular buzz about the…
Automated v Manual Sample Preparation – A Comparison
Posted on March 28th, 2018
We talk a lot about how automated sample preparation gives you better data – but, you would be correct 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…
If Beer Tastes of Vegetables, Does it Count as One of Your 5 a Day?
Posted on December 20th, 2017
As we approach the Christmas festivities, many of you will be enjoying a festive tipple. Analysis of alcohol seems to…
Anatune Delivers a Complete Solution for Intertek for Residual Solvent Analysis
Posted on October 13th, 2017
I have just been made aware of a really interesting article in Octobers edition of Compounding World Magazine and wanted…
CTC CombiPAL to GERSTEL MPS Upgrade Offer
Posted on October 3rd, 2017
Until the end of December 2017, we have a great promotional offer on CombiPAL-to-MPS upgrades. This offer enables CombiPAL users…
‘Bad Liquor’ and how to avoid a hangover
Posted on September 19th, 2017
Recently one of our Applications Chemists, Jon Dunscombe, celebrated his wedding in Brazil and returned with a sample of the…
Picking Winners at BMSS 38
Posted on September 14th, 2017
The 38th BMSS Annual Conference took place last week at The Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and, by…
Kathy’s Drinks Cabinet – What’s Really Inside?
Posted on August 18th, 2017
It’s a lovely weekend, so let’s get some friends over and have a BBQ. The beer and wine flows as the…
Humans Come Out Second Best Against Efficient Robot Chemist
Posted on August 9th, 2017
The Robots are coming and they are better than humans!!! Nothing to panic about here but your job is likely…
Residual Solvents in Polymers using MPS-GC/Q-TOF
Posted on July 7th, 2017
A Guest Blog Post Polymers are some of the most versatile materials in existence and are used in all aspects…
Efficient Doping Control
Posted on May 2nd, 2017
Automated determination of nicotine and its metabolites in blood. In the race to keep up with new and suspected doping…
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…
SmartSPE – Control Your Results!
Posted on February 23rd, 2017
We’ve all been there in the lab watching our solid phase extraction (SPE) manifold and whilst you did your best…
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…
Lipidomics: Sample Prep with the GERSTEL MPS Dual Head WorkStation
Posted on November 17th, 2016
Metabolomics studies focus on the analysis of small molecules (MW<2000) in biological matrices, processing relatively large sets of samples to…
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…
Why You Need to Look at Dispersive Liquid-Liquid Micro Extraction
Posted on November 1st, 2016
Automated DLLME using the GERSTEL MultiPurpose Sampler In analytical sample preparation, Liquid-Liquid Extraction (LLE) is as old as the…
Anatune Heads to Scotland for Distilled Spirits
Posted on October 19th, 2016
If you want authentic Scotch, you obviously go to Scotland and this meant there was only one place to host…
On the Road Again: Part 1 – Passive Drinking at BMSS 2016
Posted on October 4th, 2016
This September, we once again took our Voice200ultra SIFT-MS on the road, with visits to customers and conferences. The first…
A Picture Really is Worth a Thousand Words!
Posted on September 21st, 2016
When we perform your next instrument install or upgrade, we will probably ask permission to take a photo of it…
Anatune at BMSS 2016
Posted on August 31st, 2016
The 37th BMSS Annual Meeting is being held on the 13th-15th September, at the Winter Gardens in Eastbourne and Anatune…
Metabolomics 2016 Dublin
Posted on June 23rd, 2016
Anatune will be at Metabolomics 2016 next week in Dublin. We will be demonstrating high throughput, just-in-time, metabolomics sample preparation…
Automating Amino Acid Analysis
Posted on June 23rd, 2016
Why do we measure Amino Acids? Amino acids are both key metabolites in primary metabolism and the structural building blocks…
Shaken, not Stirred?
Posted on June 1st, 2016
Manual sample preparation of solid and viscous samples such as vegetative matter, tissues or viscous liquids can be a time…
Workshop – The Latest in SIFT-MS
Posted on May 25th, 2016
The technology of SIFT-MS is developing rapidly in ways that are expanding what it can do still further. SIFT-MS offers…
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…
Twelve Months On…
Posted on April 7th, 2016
How time flies…! A year has passed since I began working for Anatune, and in many ways, the last twelve…
Once Upon a Time You Had a Great Idea…
Posted on April 5th, 2016
The GERSTEL MultiPurpose Sampler (MPS) automates your GC and LC sample prep. You designed the sample prep method You got…
Automated GC-MS Metabolomics Workshops
Posted on March 24th, 2016
Metabolomics usually requires the preparation of extensive sample sets to allow successful differentiation between sample types. Hence, good analytical data…
Automated Tedlar Bag Sampling using SIFT-MS
Posted on February 25th, 2016
Tedlar bags are a convenient and cost-effective option for sampling volatile organic compounds, for example, toxic industrial chemicals (TICs) in…
With Pinot Noir it’s all about the Nose
Posted on February 22nd, 2016
As an avid reader of The Economist, I was interested to come across this article concerning new technology being applied…
Metabolomics: Automated GC-MS Workshops
Posted on December 10th, 2015
We have decided to run more workshops on Metabolomics, in co-operation with our friends at Agilent Technologies and GERSTEL. The…
Weighing as Part of Automated Sample Preparation
Posted on October 20th, 2015
One of the best things about the GERSTEL MultiPurpose Sampler (MPS) is that it offers such a large range of…
SIFT-MS with Automated Sampling of Tedlar Bags
Posted on October 14th, 2015
We are looking for a partner or partners to help take this project forward. We have recently looked at the…
The Beast of Norwich
Posted on October 14th, 2015
Having trained the Beast in my own laboratory to carry out the tasks I wished him to perform, I set…
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…
A Trip to Anatune: The Customer’s Eye View
Posted on September 10th, 2015
Following an initial chat with James Kee of Thames Water, we invited him down to our laboratory in Cambridge and…
The Curse of Lumpy Samples
Posted on July 31st, 2015
Sometimes it is the simplest of problems that can ruin your day. No GC-MS or LC-MS can handle particulate laden…