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Category Archives: MS in the News
Proteomics Tops at Pittcon
Article at Genomeweb: Life Sciences Take Center Stage at Pittcon 2003.
Protein ID by MS
Another good proteomics article: Large-scale protein identification using mass spectrometry in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta.
Mag Lab Aims at 50 T
Popular Mechanics has an article “The World’s Most Powerful Magnet” on the NHMFL’s big magnets.
Advion/Thermo Ink Deal
Genomeweb.com: Advion, Thermo to Co-Market Nanoelectrospray Mass Spec System
MALDI FTMS of Bead Libraries
High-Throughput One-Bead-One-Compound Approach to Peptide-Encoded Combinatorial Libraries: MALDI-MS Analysis of Single TentaGel Beads in Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry.
Superheavy 7H Isotope Detected
Researchers at the RIKEN laboratory in Japan report the detection of Hydrogen-7, the heaviest H isotope yet observed.
MS Based Cork Sniffing
This article just in on the HubMed newsfeed: A new approach to the characterization of volatile signatures of cork wine stoppers using a dynamic headspace method coupled to mass spectrometry (DHS-MS).
First Commercial 12 T FTMS Installed
GenomeWeb reports that the first commercdial 12 T FTMS system is being installed at the Mayo Clinic in a collaboration between Bruker and David Muddiman, director of Mayo’s W.M. Keck FT-ICR Lab.
IMSC 2003 On-line Abstract Submission
Abstracts for the 16th International Mass Spectrometry Conference can now be submitted on-line. See the IMSC Web page for more information.
Analytical Chemistry Now Up on ACS Paragon System
From ACS: We are pleased to announce that authors who contribute to Analytical Chemistry have a new way to save time and simplify the manuscript submission process. On February 4, 2003, the American Chemical Society released the ACS Paragon System for Analytical Chemistry. Now 19 ACS journals offer the benefits of Paragon. Implementation of this …
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System Detects Chemical and Biological Agents in Mail
Article You’ve Got Anthrax at the Beyond 2000 site.
Registration Deadline for 2003 ACS NewOrleans Meeting
The registration deadline for the 2003 ACS National Spring Meeting in NewOrleans is Wednesday, February 26, Register online, but not with a Mac using Internet Explorer. If you are using a Mac, head over to Netscape for their 7.0 browser.
Y-12 facility Turns 60
The Oak Ridge Y-12 facility, the world’s largest prep-scale MS project, had it’s 60th anniversary on Tuesday. Groundbreaking for the first alpha Calutron building was on February 18, 1943.
RSS Feed Added
A rich site summary (RSS) feature has been added to the site. This consisted checking a few boxes at the Blogger site that ultimately generate an XML summary of the Web log posts. If you click on the link, you may wonder why reading something that looks like raw hypertext is a Good Thing. The …
Waters Profit Falls
Forbes.com: Waters profit falls “Weakness in the company’s mass spectrometry business and slowing demand for some of its products from large pharmaceutical customers in the United States and Europe are hurting results.”
Shimadzu dedicates Lab to Tanaka
Japan Times: Shimadzu dedicates lab to Tanaka
International Mass Spectrometry Conference 2003 Registration information is now available for the 16th International Mass Spectrometry Conference in Edinburgh, 31 August – September 5, 2003. Accommodations can be booked after the first of the year and abstracts are due at the end of March 2003.
Süddeutsche Zeitung: Der verhinderte Laureat (on-line English translation)
The Japan Times: Nobel Laureate Defends His Research