Mass Spectrometry Blog

MALDI of a Copper Age Mummy

2008-08-22T08:46:00.005-05:00

MALDI TOF mass spectrometry has been used to identify the clothing of �tzi the Iceman (in RCM; hat tip to MW).

Mass Spectrometer Confirms Mars Water

2008-08-01T17:34:00.004-05:00

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander thermal and evolved-gas analyzer ( TEGA) has identified water in a mars soil sample.

QTOF Lecture

2008-07-31T16:56:00.002-05:00

Raising the bar on scientific presentation production values.

LHC Rap

2008-07-30T21:04:00.001-05:00

(via)

Video Archive: The Mass Spectrometer

2008-07-10T11:04:00.003-05:00

A 1988 video from the University of Hertfordshire Science Centre.

ACS Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions Podcast

2008-07-10T10:07:00.002-05:00

The American Chemical Society has a podcast on the use of chemistry to solve far-reaching global problems.

A Conversation with Fred W. McLafferty

2008-04-16T09:30:00.003-05:00

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).

Blog this Article

2008-04-03T10:44:00.004-05:00

The on-line Journal of Chemical Physics has a "Blog this Article" button, for example:

Resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization and fragmentation of molecular beams: NO, I₂, benzene, and butadiene

J. Chem. Phys. 71, pp. 1359-1371 (1979)

http://link.aip.org/link/?JCPSA6/71/1359/1

Wikipedia Statistics

2008-03-06T09:04:00.007-06:00

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).

FBI's New Technology Revolutionizes DNA Analysis

2008-01-29T09:51:00.001-06:00

From National Public Radio's Morning Edition, January 28, 2008:

"The newest wrinkle [in forensic DNA analysis] involves a rather innocuous-looking machine called a mass spectrometer, which is, in essence, a glorified scale that weighs individual molecules."

(audio and transcript)

Academic Interviews

2008-01-10T21:20:00.000-06:00

Excellent and refreshingly candid advice on academic job interviews (via).

Rays of Positive Electricity and Their Application to Chemical Analyses

2008-01-10T09:56:00.000-06:00

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.

Chromatography Video

2008-01-09T13:55:00.000-06:00

Here is another video in need of a mashup.

Computational MS Demo

2007-11-01T08:43:00.000-05:00

From the University of California at San Diego.

Update: direct link to above page.

Ion Mobility Separation Animation

2007-09-15T16:08:00.000-05:00

A well-crafted animation of ion trapping and mobility separation. It lacks a soundtrack, but it's easy enough to add one.

Scivee: Science TV

2007-08-26T21:29:00.000-05:00

YouTube with science videos, a project with the Public Library of Science, the National Science Foundation, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (via).

Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry and the Tour de France

2007-07-26T13:56:00.000-05:00

Italian Christian Moreni tested positive for synthetic testosterone with the isotope ratio mass spectrometry procedure.

Cyclotrons, Synchrotrons, Mass Spectrometers, and Cloud Chambers

2007-07-12T13:15:00.000-05:00

A physics lecture by Prof. Walter Lewin of MIT.

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MALDI Sample Preparation: The Ultra Thin Layer Method

2007-07-07T09:38:00.000-05:00

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.

Really Old Peanuts

2007-06-28T21:27:00.000-05:00

Preceramic Adoption of Peanut, Squash, and Cotton in Northern Peru - agriculture, archaeology, and accelerator mass spectrometry.

Protein Synthesis Interpretive Dance

2007-06-27T14:27:00.000-05:00

At Stanford University in 1971. Compare to Harvard in 2006.

Mass Spectrometry Videos

2007-06-25T10:11:00.000-05:00