MALDI of a Copper Age Mummy
MALDI TOF mass spectrometry has been used to identify the clothing of Ötzi the Iceman (in RCM; hat tip to MW).
Labels: mass_spectrometry, news, research
A Web Log of Mass Spectrometry Web Sites and Other Links and Items of Interest
MALDI TOF mass spectrometry has been used to identify the clothing of Ötzi the Iceman (in RCM; hat tip to MW).
Labels: mass_spectrometry, news, research
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander thermal and evolved-gas analyzer ( TEGA) has identified water in a mars soil sample.
Labels: mass_spectrometry, news, research
Labels: business, humor, mass_spectrometry, video
A 1988 video from the University of Hertfordshire Science Centre.
Labels: education, mass_spectrometry, video
The Oral History Project of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University has a 90 minute streaming video interview of mass spectrometry pioneer Fred McLafferty (Apple Quicktime required).
Labels: history, mass_spectrometry, video
Here is a site that produces a graph of hit counts for Wikipedia articles. For example mass spectrometry had 43319 hits in February, about one to two thousand hits per day (via).
Labels: mass_spectrometry, wiki
Google Books has a digitized and searchable versions of J. J. Thomson's Rays of Positive Electricity and Their Application to Chemical Analyses both the 1913 Edition as well as the 1921 Edition. There are also downloadable PDFs of the books.
Labels: history, mass_spectrometry
Labels: mass_spectrometry, proteomics, video
Labels: humor, mass_spectrometry, video
Italian Christian Moreni tested positive for synthetic testosterone with the isotope ratio mass spectrometry procedure.
Labels: mass_spectrometry, news
A physics lecture by Prof. Walter Lewin of MIT.
Labels: education, mass_spectrometry, video
TIme for a blogroll cleaning. The old blogroll is in the comments.
Labels: mass_spectrometry, notice
A video tutorial article in the Journal of Visualized Experiments on MALDI sample preparation from Brian Chait's Mass Spectrometry Group at Rockefeller University. JoVE is an online biological sciences video journal.
Labels: mass_spectrometry, research
Preceramic Adoption of Peanut, Squash, and Cotton in Northern Peru - agriculture, archaeology, and accelerator mass spectrometry.
Labels: mass_spectrometry, news, research
Videocasts of mass spectrometry talks (RSS):
Targeted MS Assays for Biomarkers: Enabling a Biomarker Pipeline, Leigh Anderson, Large Scale Proteomics Corporation
Emerging Role of Mass Spectrometry in Structure Elucidation of Cellular Complexes, Michal Sharon, Cambridge University
Top Down Mass Spectrometry: 2005, N. Kelleher, University of Illinois
Finding Function with Mass Spectrometry in Cancer and Infectious Disease, R. Angeletti, Albert Einstein School of Medicine
New Mass Spectral Strategies for Proteomics and Glycomics , Catherine E. Costello, Boston University
Labels: mass_spectrometry, video
Labels: mass_spectrometry, video
This Reason Magazine article only mentions mass spectrometry tangentially, but illustrates one of the points I tried to make in this poster: Wikipedia can't be ignored if it's the first Google hit in your topic area.
Labels: mass_spectrometry, wiki
Boris A. Mamyrin, inventor of the mass reflectron, died March 5, 2007, at the age of 87 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Labels: mass_spectrometry, people
Abstracts are due April 30 for FACSS 2007. There will be seven half-day oral sessions on mass spectrometry:
Labels: conference, mass_spectrometry
Along with Wikipedia's mass spectrometry entry, which has risen to become the number one Google hit for mass spectrometry, there are a few other noteworthy Wikimedia projects: mass spectrometry photos and diagrams in Wikimedia Commons, mass spectrometry defined in Wictionary, and mass spectrometry section in a Wikibooks selection on proteomics.
Labels: mass_spectrometry, wiki
Joining the growing number of chemical analysis podcasts: SpectroscopyNow and SeparationsNow podcasts.
Labels: mass_spectrometry, podcast
Yahoo Pipes is a service that allows the manipulation of web content to create a remixed version of the information. Here is a mashup of mass spectrometry journal articles. Mass spectrometry journals are fed straight in and journals with mixed content (e.g. Analytical Chemisry) are filtered to pull out the mass spectrometry articles.
Labels: mass_spectrometry, newsfeed
Wiley has launched a new proteomics journal, Proteomics - Clinical Applications aimed at "application of proteomics to the study of human disease and translation to the clinic." A quick browse of the first issue suggest that at least half of the articles will be in some way related to mass spectrometry. Fortunately there is RSS Feed to make it easier to stay up to date.
Labels: journal, mass_spectrometry
Labels: mass_spectrometry, video
Analytical Chemistry joins the growing number of journals with a podcast (an audio introduction).
Labels: mass_spectrometry, podcast
2005 Impact Factor
Labels: journal, mass_spectrometry
This Analyst article on LCMS for the determination of drug contamination on Irish euro banknotes by Jonathan Bones, Mirek Macka and Brett Paull at the Dublin City University National Center for Sensor Research has been getting quite a bit of press. Trace cocaine was found on all 45 bank notes tested. This is perhaps not surprising, given the ease with which the powder is spread by ATMs and counting machines. Nonetheless, the authors report a significant sensitivity improvement in the LCMS method compared to previous GCMS studies.
Labels: mass_spectrometry, news, research
Here is a video (RealVideo) of a 1995 lecture by Harry Kroto on the discovery of C60. The famous mass spectrum is at the 12 minute mark (via>via).
Labels: mass_spectrometry, video
It isn't clear what test was performed, but this story about fake fur has been the biggest mass spectrometry item of the past week. One possibility is MALDI MS of keratin, as described in Identification and Quantification of Feathers, Down, and Hair of Avian and Mammalian Origin Using Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry by Klaus Hollemeyer, Wolfgang Altmeyer, and Elmar Heinzle, Anal. Chem.; 2002; 74 5960 (ht to Steve Down)
Labels: mass_spectrometry, research
Organics Captured from Comet 81P/Wild 2 by the Stardust Spacecraft in the December 15 Science.
Labels: mass_spectrometry, research
The Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Facility at the University of New South Wales has a peptide collision induced dissociation simulator in which you use a mouse click to break peptide backbone bonds. There is also a sequencing tutorial with study questions.
Labels: mass_spectrometry, software
The Wiley journal Proteomics has started a podcast. Unfortunately, it isn't formatted for subscription and each audio file must be downloaded individually.
Labels: mass_spectrometry, podcast, proteomics
Kalorama Information, a division of MarketResearch.com, is predicting that mass spectrometry in research related to biomarker discovery will exceed $745 Million by the year 2010. The full report can be obtained online for about $3000.
Labels: business, mass_spectrometry
Several photos of the 1940 Nier Mass Spectrograph are online at the National Museum of American History. Alfred Nier built this instrument to separate 235U from 238U and test the prediction that the former undergoes fission (via).
Labels: history, mass_spectrometry, people
Prof. John F J Todd of the University of Kent was awarded the Aston Medal by the British Mass Spectrometry Society.
Labels: mass_spectrometry, people
An excellent Google Video critique of "Determination of Methylmercury, Ethylmercury, and Inorganic Mercury in Mouse Tissues, Following Administration of Thimerosal, by Species-Specific Isotope Dilution GC-Inductively Coupled Plasma-MS ," Qvarnstrom, Lambertsson, Havarinasab, Hultman, & Frech,
Anal. Chem. 2003; 75 4120 using pen, paper and video camera.
Labels: mass_spectrometry

Labels: conference, mass_spectrometry, news
Wiley InterScience journals now have RSS newsfeeds (marked-up example):
Labels: journal, mass_spectrometry, newsfeed

Labels: education, mass_spectrometry, video
Peacock 0.1.7 for Mac OS X is a view and edit program for GCMS files.
Labels: mass_spectrometry, software

Labels: education, mass_spectrometry, video