This just in the e-mail box: Bruker Daltonics will hold a grand opening of its new headquarters for customer support, research and development and manufacturing, at 40 Manning Road, Billerica, MA on November 15th from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. In addition to comments by top company executives, key products such as the Ultraflex TOF/TOF, …

The Analytical Chemistry Fundamental Reviews now has four mass spectrometry articles, a 400% increase from a few years ago. The articles are: Current Application of Mass Spectrometry to Combinatorial Chemistry (Xueheng Cheng and Jill Hochlowski) Environmental Mass Spectrometry: Emerging Contaminants and Current Issues (Susan D. Richardson) Mass Spectrometry of Chemical Polymers (Charles N. McEwen and …

Annual Reviews made available the full text of ten review articles related to the September 11th terrorist attacks available without charge. These articles include the following relevant to mass spectrometry: EXPLOSIVES DETECTION: A Challenge for Physical Chemistry Jeffrey I. Steinfeld and Jody Wormhoudt Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 1998 BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS√¢‚Ǩ‚ÄùA PRIMER FOR MICROBIOLOGISTS Robert …

The Matrix Science Workshop at ASMS will be held at the Marriott on Sunday June 2nd from 8 to noon. Note that Matrix Science is now a hardware company and CPU clusters have now entered the realm of mass spectrometry hardware.

Five of the initial eight articles in the new American Chemical Society Journal of Proteome Research are related to MS. This is good news for MS in general, but thins the paper supply in the already crowded MS journal field.