Terpenes are volatile organic compounds that are responsible for, among other things, the typical scents of plants, resins or ...

Researchers at Purdue University and UC Davis have found that petunias cannot properly form reproductive structures without chemical signals delivered between different parts of the plant. The work ...

A research team has succeeded in automating an established method for the gentle, artifact-avoiding isolation of volatile food ingredients. As the team's current comparative study now shows, automated ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHICAGO — Volatile organic compounds that are found in combustible cigarette and e-cigarettes were linked with ...

(Beyond Pesticides, October 31, 2023) With cooler weather setting in and people heading indoors and closing windows, the issue of COVID-19 transmission escalates, as do concerns about toxic chemicals ...

The headline takeaway is scale and sensitivity: the team reported identifying 81 distinct VOCs. Those compounds clustered into four main ingredient groups linked to ancient embalming practice - fats ...

Mass spectrometry (MS) has long been a cornerstone of chemical and biological analysis, but in biotech and biomanufacturing, it is now experiencing a renaissance. As drug modalities diversify—peptides ...

A recent article explained the role of Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) in the analytics laboratory. The current article focuses on reviewing the technology used for preparing volatile ...