Mike May

Mike May

Freelance Writer and Editor

Articles by Mike May

  • Modernizing Medicine

    Monday, September 11, 2017
    It happened so fast—moving from an era when sequencing one gene earned a Ph.D. to a day when sequencing got fast enough for clinical applications. read more

  • Analyzing Images From Microscopy

    Friday, August 18, 2017
    More data and opportunities—as well as expectations—make up today’s focus of analyzing images from microscopy. read more

  • Molecular Motions

    Friday, August 18, 2017
    Infrared light stirs vibrations in molecules, and how they shake reveals what they are. read more

  • NMR’s New World

    Thursday, June 22, 2017
    To determine the structure of an organic sample, chemists often turn to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). read more

  • The Silent Treatment on Regulatory Road

    Tuesday, June 20, 2017
    I still remember the chirps erupting when I opened the door to the cricket room at Cornell University in the late 1980s. read more

  • A Double Mass Measurement

    Friday, May 19, 2017
    “It’s basically a balance in an oven.” That’s how Kevin Menard, a Texas-basedconsultant for Mettler-Toledo International and Veritas Testing and Consulting, describes thermogravimetric analysis. read more

  • The Touchy-Feely Side of Imaging

    Friday, May 19, 2017
    It’s not just what you can see in microscopy, but what you can touch and feel. read more

  • Simplifying GC

    Friday, April 21, 2017
    Scientists started separating samples with gas chromatography (GC) in the early 1950s, and the technology is continually becoming easier to use. read more

  • Tinkering or Tasting

    Wednesday, March 08, 2017
    There’s a lot of water out there—about 326 million trillion gallons on Earth, according to the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology—but there’s not as much clean water as there used to be. read more

  • Analyzing Unknowns

    Wednesday, March 08, 2017
    Despite the seemingly complete trio of RNA—messenger, ribosomal and transfer—from the cellular biology classes of my generation, we keep finding new ones, and each shows us more about the complexity of pathways. read more
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