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Category Archives: MS in the News
Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry and the Tour de France
Italian Christian Moreni tested positive for synthetic testosterone with the isotope ratio mass spectrometry procedure.
MALDI Sample Preparation: The Ultra Thin Layer Method
A video tutorial article in the Journal of Visualized Experiments on MALDI sample preparation from Brian Chait’s Mass Spectrometry Group at Rockefeller University. JoVE is an online biological sciences video journal.
Really Old Peanuts
Preceramic Adoption of Peanut, Squash, and Cotton in Northern Peru – agriculture, archaeology, and accelerator mass spectrometry.
Wikipedia Hegemony
This Reason Magazine article only mentions mass spectrometry tangentially, but illustrates one of the points I tried to make in this poster: Wikipedia can’t be ignored if it’s the first Google hit in your topic area.
Boris A. Mamyrin: 1919-2007
Boris A. Mamyrin, inventor of the mass reflectron, died March 5, 2007, at the age of 87 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Mass Spectrometry at FACSS 2007
Abstracts are due April 30 for FACSS 2007. There will be seven half-day oral sessions on mass spectrometry: Fundamentals of Electrospray Ionization Fundamentals of Laser Desorption Ionization Direct Ionization Methods for High Throughput Mass Spectrometry Advances in Biomolecular Imaging Mass Spectrometry Particle Mass Spectrometry: Techniques and Applications Novel Methods for Biological Mass Spectrometry Applications of …
T-rex Protein Shows Link to Birds
Analyses of Soft Tissue from Tyrannosaurus rex Suggest the Presence of Protein and Protein Sequences from Mastodon and Tyrannosaurus Rex Revealed by Mass Spectrometry (via).
Yahoo Pipes Mass Spectrometry
Yahoo Pipes is a service that allows the manipulation of web content to create a remixed version of the information. Here is a mashup of mass spectrometry journal articles. Mass spectrometry journals are fed straight in and journals with mixed content (e.g. Analytical Chemisry) are filtered to pull out the mass spectrometry articles.
Proteomics Clinical Applications
Wiley has launched a new proteomics journal, Proteomics – Clinical Applications aimed at “application of proteomics to the study of human disease and translation to the clinic.” A quick browse of the first issue suggest that at least half of the articles will be in some way related to mass spectrometry. Fortunately there is RSS …
Analytical Chemistry Podcast
Analytical Chemistry joins the growing number of journals with a podcast (an audio introduction).
Spectroscopy Journal Impact Factors
2005 Impact Factor 1 – Mass Spectroscopy Rev. (13.27) 2 – Prog. NMR Spectroscopy (6.46) 3 – J. Anal. Atom. Spectrom. (3.64) 4 – J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectr. (3.63) 5 – J. Mass Spectrometry (3.57) 6 – Rapid Comm. Mass Spectr. (3.09) 7 – NMR in Biomedicine (2.47) 8 – J. Magnetic Resonance (2.42) …
LCMS Finds Cocaine on Euros
This Analyst article on LCMS for the determination of drug contamination on Irish euro banknotes by Jonathan Bones, Mirek Macka and Brett Paull at the Dublin City University National Center for Sensor Research has been getting quite a bit of press. Trace cocaine was found on all 45 bank notes tested. This is perhaps not …
Mass Spectrometry IDs Fake Fur
It isn’t clear what test was performed, but this story about fake fur has been the biggest mass spectrometry item of the past week. One possibility is MALDI MS of keratin, as described in Identification and Quantification of Feathers, Down, and Hair of Avian and Mammalian Origin Using Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry by …
Stardust Mass Spectrometry
Organics Captured from Comet 81P/Wild 2 by the Stardust Spacecraft in the December 15 Science.
MS Biomarker Research to Top $745M
Kalorama Information, a division of MarketResearch.com, is predicting that mass spectrometry in research related to biomarker discovery will exceed $745 Million by the year 2010. The full report can be obtained online for about $3000.
Nier’s Mass Spectrograph
Several photos of the 1940 Nier Mass Spectrograph are online at the National Museum of American History. Alfred Nier built this instrument to separate 235U from 238U and test the prediction that the former undergoes fission (via).
Element 118 Discovered
A noble gas with 118 protons has been discovered (via).
Todd Wins Aston Medal
Prof. John F J Todd of the University of Kent was awarded the Aston Medal by the British Mass Spectrometry Society.
C&E News MS Cover Story
Chemical & Engineering News has a cover story on the International Mass Spectrometry Conference last month in Prague.