Capabilities of laser ablation—inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry for (trace) element analysis of car paints for forensic purposes in the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry.
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Mass Spectrometry or Poetry? Why not Both?
An article in the Arizona Republic (signin required) has a report on Glendale Community College organic chemistry students writing poetry to help them deal with complex topics such as mass spectrometry and photochemical oxidation. How about haiku? It’s short and perhaps easier to write than a sonnet or epic poem about mass spectrometry. For example, …
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LCMS of King Tut’s Wine
Researchers at the University of Barcelona used LC/MS/MS to analyze dry residue of wine from King Tut’s tomb: see First evidence of white wine in ancient Egypt from Tutankhamun’s tomb in Journal of Archaeological Science (via) and the related article: The origin of the ancient Egyptian drink Shedeh revealed using LC/MS/MS Journal of Archaeological Science …
OSU Gets Keck Grant for ECD MS/MS
Oregon State University mass spectrometrists Doug Barofsky and Max Deinzer have been awarded a $1M Keck Foundation Grant to develop and electron capture tandem mass spectrometer for proteomics research (via).
New Waters Proteomics Software
Waters introduced their ProteinLynx Global Server (PLGS) 2.2.5 software at the ABRF meeting this week (via).
Agilent Rolls Out Triple Quad, QTOF
Agilent aims at increasing LC/MS market share with new product line (via).
Identification of Proteins in Renaissance Paintings by Proteomics
Analytical Chemistry (subscription required) has a unique article on the proteomic analysis of Renaissance paintings. The authors worked with microgram quantities of paint from Benedetto Bonfigli’s triptych, The Virgin and Child, St. John the Baptist, St. Sebastian (XVth century), and from Niccolo di Pietro Gerini’s, The Virgin and Child (XIVth century) and found proteins from …
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The why behind a wine%u2019s bouquet – Science Mysteries – MSNBC.com
The why behind a wine%u2019s bouquet – Science Mysteries – MSNBC.com
Scientific American Podcast
Scientific American Magazine joins a host of others and adds a science podcast to their site.
Open Access JASMS
The Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry is now open access for articles older than one year. Each month a new issue is made available. For example, issues through February 2005 are now available.
InSilicoSpectro Perl Library for Proteomics
InSilicoSpectro is an open source Perl library for protomics mass spectrometry. The Perl scripts can be integrated into other software, for example, the commercial program Phenyx. The J. Prot. Res. article (subscription required) has links to related software, but they are not clickable.
DESI, IMS, and Resurgent Challenges to HPLC-MS
Article on new LCMS techniques in the January 1 LCGC.
Science Netwatch
It’s not quite the same as being slashdotted, but it’s good to get a plug from Science in their January 13th Netwatch.
Mass Spectrometry Tag Cloud
I found the Royal Society for Chemistry tag cloud on the RSC journal RSS page and made one for mass spectrometry. It uses RSS feeds for mass spectrometry journals and blogs.
Dr. Graham Cooks on Worldtalk Radio
A January 11, 2006 interview with Mass Spectrometrist Graham Cooks of Purdue University is available online as a web broadcast (requires Windows Media Player).
American Chemical Society Journal RSS Feeds
American Chemical Society RSS Feeds are now available. Here’s Analytical Chemistry and here is Analytical Chemistry marked up (using Feed2JS).
Historical Mass Spectrometry Books and Articles
Sir J. J. Thomson’s 1913 Rays Of Positive Electricity and 1921 Rays Of Positive Electricity Second Edition are online at the Internet Archive Million Book Project. ChemTeam’s Classic Papers has J. J. Thomson On the Masses of the Ions in Gases at Low Pressures, Philosophical Magazine, 1899, 48, 547-567 and F. W. Aston Isotopes and …
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OpenWetWare
OpenWetWare is a Wiki for biology and biological engineering. It uses the MediaWiki server software that is also used by Wikipedia.
Wikipedia vs. Britannica on Science
Nature compares Wikipedia and Britannica coverage of science (via). The mass spectrometry community should be paying attention since the Wikipedia entry for mass spectrometry is one of the top hits for “mass spectrometry” on an increasing number of search engine pages (e.g. the #4 hit on Yahoo today). The entry has been edited more than …
Mass Spectrometry Terms Second Draft
The Second Draft of Mass Spectrometry Terms is nearing completion. Please take a look and leave a comment.