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Category Archives: MS in the News
Mass spectrometry in Nature Methods
Mass spectrometry: gaining mass appeal in proteomics in Nature Methods. A nice overview of MS technology for proteomics with some good links to company websites.
Cocaine in the River Po Measured By Mass Spectrometry
The Environmental Health article Cocaine in surface waters: a new evidence-based tool to monitor community drug abuse shows that mass spectrometry can be used to detect cocaine metabolites in urban river water. (via Wired)
Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics in Cancer Research
The article Proteomics in Cancer Research is available on-line and has a nice basic mass spectrometry tutorial. Update: Article no longer available.
MacDevCenter.com: Systems Biology
An article on the O’Reilly Network. A year old now, but worth reading.
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Dates Settlement
Eva Wild and colleagues at the University of Vienna have used accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon dating on tooth samples from the Czech Republic to show that the remains are more than 30,000 years old and indicating that the settlement is the earliest of modern humans in Europe.
MS Terms and Definitions Workshop at ASMS
Self-referential (but important) lift from STMS: I am organizing a workshop at the ASMS Meeting in San Antonio on Tuesday June 7 from 5:30 to 7:00. The topic is revising the standard terms and definitions related to mass spectrometry. The main item that I will be presenting is a draft list of revised terms that …
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Scientific Weblog Breakout?
Greg Tyrelle at Nodalpoint notes the rise of the academic science weblog. Notable outbound links are the Pharyngula science blog and a Village Voice article on academic weblogs in general.
eTBlast MEDLINE Search Interface
eTBlast is a MEDLINE search front-end developed by the University of Texas Southwest Medical Center in Dallas. It will chew through a Texas-sized paragraph of text and return (after a few minutes) a scored list of related articles found on MEDLINE. For example, the abstract of Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 2004 ;18;1095 returned this page …
Affymetrix Licenses Caliper GeneChip
PRNewswire via Bioinfo Online
Mass Spectrometry of Tears
From Sciencedaily.com (ACS Press Release): “Researchers in Japan are developing a faster, more accurate diagnostic test for Sj√ɬ∂gren’s syndrome, an incurable autoimmune disorder characterized by chronically dry eyes and dry mouth. The noninvasive test, which analyzes multiple protein biomarkers in the tears using highly sensitive mass spectrometry, shows promise in early clinical studies as the …
Bruker/Agilent Extend Trap Collaboration
“The amended ITMS collaboration agreement extends the ion trap development cooperation, the continued supply of mass spectrometry parts and components from Agilent to Bruker Daltonics, and the end-product manufacturing by Bruker Daltonics of each company’s respective ITMS product lines. The agreement facilitates the introduction of each company’s ion trap HCT Ultra and XCT Ultra mass …
ACS to Allow Free Access to Journal Articles One Year After Publication
See press releases “American Chemical Society broadens access to its articles: Conditions set for free availability one year after publication“, “American Chemical Society broadens author-directed article access” and “American Chemical Society policy will offer service to authors of NIH-funded research articles” in response to “Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded …
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DART Mass Spec
An article on JEOL’s new direct analysis in real-time MS technique in C&E; News.
Bruker MALDI-TOF/TOF to Get Smart Beam
Bruker announces smartbeam, dual ESI/MALDI ion source, and high capacity ion trap at Pittcon.
Judge Rules in Favor of Yale in Electrospray Case
The Hartford Courant reports that a federal judge has ruled against John Fenn in an ESI patent dispute. Also in the Yale Daily News, Richmond Times Dispatch, and C&EN;. Fenn has indicated that he will appeal.
Google Scholar
Google searching for scientific articles, e.g. mass spectrometry. It returns a list of articles ranked by citation number. Direct links to PDF files are provided where available, but availability seems to include any web site that has a copy of the article archived (including many educational sites). Early users can enjoy the Napster-like freedom that …
Spectroscopy Magazine MS Articles
The November Spectroscopy Magazine has two MS articles (PDF): Strategies for Higher Throughput MS Analyses by Michael Balogh and Diane Diehl and Ken Busch’s Mass Spectrometry Forum on Masses in Mass Spectrometry: Balancing the Analytical Scales. PDFs of Mass Spectrometry Forum from previous issues are also online.
NIH Proposal to Open Tax-Funded Research
The Slashdot website has a discussion on a recent NIH Proposal to require free and open access to the results of federally funded research. The Washington Post article (registration required).
Victor Talrose
Prof. Victor Talrose, Member of the Russian Academy of Science and one of the outstanding mass spectrometrists of the 20th century, died at his home near San Francisco on June 22nd at age 83. An account of some of Prof. Talrose√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s many accomplishments can be found at the Thomson Medal page and in a 75th …