Abstracts for the 51st ASMS Conference, June 8 – 12, 2003, Montreal, Canada are due February 19, 2003. Abstracts must be submitted on-line at www.asms.org. Submit now and avoid the rush.
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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 …
Newborn Screening by MS/MS
The CDC Division of Laboratory Science Newborn Screening site includes a link to the July 2002 Summary Report Tandem Mass Spectrometry (PDF).
Proteomics in Diabetes Workshop
The NIH/NIDDK workshop “Proteomics in Diabetes” will be held April 23-25, 2003 in Bethesda, Maryland.
Strong Sector MS Sales
Thermo Electron Strong Fourth Quarter 2002 Results Includes Strong Sector Sales
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.”
Tagboard Added/Yanked
A Tag-Board Message Board has been added. The Tagboard is a a piece of Javascript that calls up stored messages from a central Web site. The idea is similar to the Web Log (Blog), except that anyone can post. The result is a sort of message board that visitors to the site can “tag” with …
Shimadzu dedicates Lab to Tanaka
Japan Times: Shimadzu dedicates lab to Tanaka
ASMS Montreal Map
Interactive Map of the Montreal Convention Center site of ASMS 2003.
COLA 2003
COLA ’03, The 7th International Conference on Laser Ablation, will be held October 5-10, 2003 at Hersonissos, Crete, Greece. Currently scheduled speakers include Leo Esaki, Phaedon Avouris, David Blank, Barbara Garrison, Jim Horwitz, Tomoji, Mikk Lippmaa, Frank Trager, Martin Wolf, and Renato Zenobi.
New Periodic Table
A new take on The Periodic Table from BBC’s “Look Around You” program.
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Probes Mississippi Mud
Applied Biosystems to cut 500 jobs
Doctor’s Guide: SELDI Technology Promises Simple Blood Test for Breast Cancer Detection
M√ɬºnsters Universit√ɬ§ts-Zeitung: Fliegende Moleküle: Medizinische Physik entwickelte nobelpreiswürdige Methode (On-line English Translation)
If you are having trouble reading the ASMS 2003 conference hotel map on-line, here is a 72 DPI version and a blow up of the Palais des Congrés area.
SpectroscopyNow: Mass Nobel Controversy
Forbes: Waters cuts 4th-quarter outlook as orders weaken
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.
Südwest Presse: Chemie-Nobelpreis ehrt den Falschen (on-line English translation)