Comparing with bio-chemical approach, i.e., surface markers, bio-physical approach, i.e., cell impedance, is a label-free technique to identify cancer stem cell-like cells.A new biomimetic sensor selective to folic acid based on a carbon paste modified with graphene oxide and Fe3O4 nanoparticles coated with molecularly imprinted polymer in the core@shell format (Fe3O4@MIPs) was obtained using the polyol method. The sensing phase was synthesized in a simple way and characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface area. In the binding experiments the selective material showed a high adsorption capacity (Q) of 30.4 mg g-1 for MMIP, while the Q value for MNIP (magnetic non-imprinted polymer) was 15.3 mg g-1 both of them following the Langmuir model to the adsorption procedure. After their efficiency was proven, these materials were used as modifiers in the electrochemical sensor (Fe3O4@MIP-GO/CPE). Under optimized conditions using the square-wave adsorptive voltammetry, the proposed sensor exhibited excellent response with a concentration linear range between 2.5 and 48 μmol L-1 and limit of detection of 0.65 μmol L-1 (S/σ = 3). The advantages obtained with the proposed method were high robustness, selectivity, and low cost being these characteristics due to the MIP; highly sensibility due to the high superficial area being the contribution of the magnetite in the core of material; and experimentally versatile since was possible carry out numerous reproductible analysis only make the renovation of the paste electrode surface by simple polishing. The sensor was applied successfully in pharmaceutical formulation and river water samples with recoveries percentages near 100%.A detailed molecular flavor profile was necessary to understand the low acceptance of soy drink by Western consumers. Accordingly, key odor-active compounds were detected by means of aroma dilution analyses coupled with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry-olfactometry after application of suitable solvent-free volatile extraction techniques. Four quantification methods (standard addition, external calibration, internal standard, and stable isotope dilution assay) were developed and validated to measure the concentrations after direct immersion-stir bar sorptive extraction. The quantitative methods provided correctness between 97% and 111% and precision ranging from 78% to 99% for the 21 key odorants. Considering the advantages to be efficient, easy to perform and cheap, internal standard method was further applied to four commercially available soy drinks in Germany. Correlated to a sensory acceptance test (n = 52) contents of 1-octen-3-one, (E,E)-2,4-decadienal and 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol were suggested to be linked to the aversion of Western consumers to soy drink.It is widely accepted that cancer, the second leading cause of death, is a morbidity with big impacts on the global health. In the last few years, chemo-therapeutic treatment continually induces alone most lengthy consequents, which is extremely harmful for the physiological and psychological health of the patients. In the present research, we discuss the recent techniques for employed for extraction, and quantitative determination of such compounds in pharmaceutical, and biological specimens. In the frame of this information, this review aims to provide basic principles of chromatography, spectroscopy, and electroanalytical methods for the analysis of anticancer drugs published in the last three years. Deruxtecan cell line The review also describes the recent developments regarding enhancing the limit of detection (LOD), the linear dynamic range, and so forth. The results show that the LOD for the chromatographic techniques with the UV detector was obtained equaled over the range 2.0 ng mL-1-0.2 μg mL-1, whereas the LOD values for analysis by chromatographic technique with the mass spectrometry (MS) detector was found between 10.0 pg mL-1-0.002 μg mL-1. The biological fluids could be directly injected to capillary electrophoresis (CE) in cases where the medicine concentration is at the contents greater than mg L-1 or g L-1. Additionally, electrochemical detection of the anticancer drugs has been mainly conducted by the voltammetry techniques with diverse modified electrodes, and lower LODs were estimated between 3.0 ng mL-1-0.3 μg mL-1. It is safe to say that the analyses of anticancer drugs can be achieved by employing a plethora of techniques such as electroanalytical, spectroscopy, and chromatography techniques.Chemometrics pre-processing of spectral data is widely performed to enhance the predictive performance of near-infrared (NIR) models related to fresh fruit quality. Pre-processing approaches in the domain of NIR data analysis are used to remove the scattering effects, thus, enhancing the absorption components related to the chemical properties. However, in the case of fresh fruit, both the scattering and absorption properties are of key interest as they jointly explain the physicochemical state of a fruit. Therefore, pre-processing data that reduces the scattering information in the spectra may lead to poorly performing models. The objectives of this study are to test two hypotheses to explore the effect of pre-processing on NIR spectra of fresh fruit. The first hypothesis is that the pre-processing of NIR spectra with scatter correction techniques can reduce the predictive performance of models as the scatter correction can reduce the useful scattering information correlated to the property of interest. The RMSEP of 0.76%, which was 13% lower compared to the PLS regression on the raw absorbance data. Pre-processing approaches should be carefully used while analysing the NIR data related to fresh fruit.Short-chain fatty alcohols (SCFAs) are one of the reactants for the production of biodiesels. The SCFA residues at the trace level have a significant impact on biodiesel quality. However, the analysis of SCFAs in aged biodiesels has not been reported so far, which is probably due to the unavailability of an appropriate analytical method for the simultaneous determination of SCFAs. Herein, we developed a novel analytical approach with high sensitivity and selectivity for the simultaneous identification and determination of SCFAs in seed oil and biodiesel samples during the simulated real-time aging by stable isotope labeling assisted liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (SIL-LC-MS). A pair of isotope labeling reagents, pyridine (Py) and [2H5]pyridine ([2H5]Py), were used to label SCFAs in biodiesels and standards, respectively. The [2H5]Py labeled SCFAs were used as internal standards to compensate for the detection of variances. The simultaneous determination of SCFAs was performed by LC-MS with an improved detection selectivity and sensitivity.