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Bruker rapifleX for Tissue Imaging
10 kHz repetition rate laser but no TOF/TOF like the ultrafleXtreme (and yes the instrument is tall).
June 18, 1942
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Manhattan District formed.
MALDI Imaging of Lipids in Tissue
C&E News interviews Prof. Robert C. Murphy at CU Denver.
IUPAC Changes Standard Atomic Weights of 11 Elements
The standard atomic weight of germanium has been changed and the atomic weights of H, Li, B. C. N, O, Si, S, Cl, and Tl are expressed as an interval. For example, the standard atomic weight of carbon is expressed as 12.0096 ‚⧠Ar(C) ‚⧠12.0116. See Atomic weights of the elements 2009 (IUPAC Technical …
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John Fenn
Nobel laureate John B. Fenn died Friday in Richmond, Virginia at age 93. Retrospective: John Bennett Fenn (1917–2010)
Mass Spectrometry at EuCheMS
Mike Brown reports on mass spectrometry presentations the 3rd EuCheMS Chemistry Congress in Nürnberg.
GCMS and the Smell of Old Books
The newest -omics: Digging Into the Science of That Old-Book Smell in the New York Times and Material Degradomics: On the Smell of Old Books in Analytical Chemistry.
Driving Biological Discovery Using Quantitative Mass Spectrometry
http://www.scivee.tv/flash/embedPlayer.swf A lecture by John Yates III of the Scripps Research Institute at the La Jolla Proteomics Conference, July 2, 2008.
PerkinElmer Acquires Analytica
PerkinElmer has acquired the electrospray ionization and mass spectrometry technology company Analytica of Branford.
18th IMSC Abstract Deadline
April 30th is the deadline for abstract submission for the 18th International Mass Spectrometry Conference in Bremen, Germany, August 30 – September 4, 2009.
Mass Spectrometry on Linkedin
The social networking site Linkedin has a group for mass spectrometry. Linkedin is similar to FaceBook, but focuses on professional networking.
MIT Mandates Open Access to Research Publications
The MIT faculty has a adopted a policy that mandates open access to their scholarly publications. This follows similar moves by Harvard and Stanford (via).
RNA Biology to Require Wikipedia Publication
Starting in 2009, the journal RNA Biology will require that authors submitting to their RNA Families section also submit a Wikipedia page summarizing the work. Both will be peer reviewed. For example, Jones, et al. RNA Biology 6, 1-4 (2009) has a corresponding Wikipedia page SmY RNA (via).
MALDI of a Copper Age Mummy
MALDI TOF mass spectrometry has been used to identify the clothing of Ötzi the Iceman (in RCM; hat tip to MW).
Mass Spectrometer Confirms Mars Water
NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander thermal and evolved-gas analyzer ( TEGA) has identified water in a mars soil sample.
ACS Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions Podcast
The American Chemical Society has a podcast on the use of chemistry to solve far-reaching global problems.
Blog this Article
The on-line Journal of Chemical Physics has a “Blog this Article” button, for example: Resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization and fragmentation of molecular beams: NO, I2, benzene, and butadiene J. Chem. Phys. 71, pp. 1359-1371 (1979) http://link.aip.org/link/?JCPSA6/71/1359/1
Wikipedia Statistics
Here is a site that produces a graph of hit counts for Wikipedia articles. For example mass spectrometry had 43319 hits in February, about one to two thousand hits per day (via).
FBI’s New Technology Revolutionizes DNA Analysis
From National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, January 28, 2008: “The newest wrinkle [in forensic DNA analysis] involves a rather innocuous-looking machine called a mass spectrometer, which is, in essence, a glorified scale that weighs individual molecules.” (audio and transcript)