Today, reorganization at Applera followed by negative market reaction. Meanwhile, Waters has been having a small rally in April. What a difference a few weeks makes.
Category Archives: MS in the News
Here’s and article on DNA chips from the CBS News site.
The intrepid David Sparkman reports from Pittcon in this month’s JASMS. Contact ASMS if you deleted the e-mail containing the secret password needed to access e-JASMS on-line.
Don’t forget to submit your Analytical Division abstract for the fall ACS meeting in Boston (April 8) before heading off to the spring ACS meeting in Orlando (April 7). Yes, it is on-line abstract submission, but the long lead-time from paper abstract days is still in place.
GenomeWeb is reporting that Applied Biosystems and MDS won their patent suit against Micromass to the tune of $47.5M. The patent in question is US4963736: Mass spectrometer and method and improved ion transmission, which ABI and MDS call technology for “triple quadrupole mass spectrometers.” Also see CNNMoney and Reuters financial news stories.
MS among other techniques for biological weapons detection: The Science of Detecting Terror in the March 1 Analytical Chemistry A-pages.
The debate on the approach to DNA sequencing made the Washington Post (Rivals Resume Battle Of the Genome Map) and the New York Times (Scientists Say Gene Decoders Needed Them).
I added proteomics and genomics stories to the newsfeed. This picks up MS stories that don’t explicitly mention MS, for example this recent article about SEQUENOM and SNP assays.
There is a laser ablation A-page cover story (and nice cover graphic!) for the February 1 Analytical Chemistry. Don’t forget to bookmark the article search page while you are there.
The 16th International Mass Spectrometry Conference will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, between August 31st and September 5th 2003. That’s still a long way off, but it’s worth bookmarking the 16th IMSC Web page at http://www.imsc-edinburgh2003.com/. There’s no link back to the International Mass Spectrometry Society on the page, so here it is: http://www.imss.nl/. Note …
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