Mass Spectrometry Blog

GCMS and the Smell of Old Books

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:39:00 +0000

The newest -omics: Digging Into the Science of That Old-Book Smell in the New York Times and Material Degradomics: On the Smell of Old Books in Analytical Chemistry.

Audio Periodic Table

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:05:00 +0000

Periodic table with audio annotations from the Royal Society of Chemistry (via).

Mass Spectrometry Word Cloud

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:23:00 +0000

From Wordle using Yahoo Pipes.

Spezify Mass Spectrometry

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:10:00 +0000

Another search page mashup.

Driving Biological Discovery Using Quantitative Mass Spectrometry

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:11:00 +0000

A lecture by John Yates III of the Scripps Research Institute at the La Jolla Proteomics Conference, July 2, 2008.

Alpha and Beta Calutrons

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:58:00 +0000

Contemporary photographs of alpha and beta Calutrons at Oak Ridge.

How a Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer Works

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:31:00 +0000

Mickey Laux of Orange Coast College explains how a quadrupole mass spectrometer works.

VisWiki

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:52:00 +0000

A Wikipedia mashup.

FT-ICR-MS Magnet Quench

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:14:00 +0000

Video of a Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer magnet quenching with resulting cryogen boil off.

ASMS on Twitter

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:28:00 +0000

The American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference is being "tweeted" on #ASMS. There is even an RSS feed RSS feed. Also see #massspec or search for mass spectrometry.

PerkinElmer Acquires Analytica

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:37:00 +0000

PerkinElmer has acquired the electrospray ionization and mass spectrometry technology company Analytica of Branford.

18th IMSC Abstract Deadline

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:18:00 +0000

April 30^th is the deadline for abstract submission for the 18th International Mass Spectrometry Conference in Bremen, Germany, August 30 � September 4, 2009.

Slideshare

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:23:00 +0000

Slideshare is like Youtube for Powerpoint presentations. For example:

Tandem Mass Spectroscopy Basics

View more presentations from cwebster.

Mass Spectrometry on Linkedin

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:08:00 +0000

The social networking site Linkedin has a group for mass spectrometry. Linkedin is similar to FaceBook, but focuses on professional networking.

Mass Spectrometry Hits on Wikipedia

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:21:00 +0000

Mass spectrometry on Wikirank

A graphical representation of the popularity of the Wikipedia page on mass spectrometry.

MIT Mandates Open Access to Research Publications

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:09:00 +0000

The MIT faculty has a adopted a policy that mandates open access to their scholarly publications. This follows similar moves by Harvard and Stanford (via).

Mass Spectrometry Twitter Feed

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:55:00 +0000

Mass spectrometry has a Twitter feed.

RNA Biology to Require Wikipedia Publication

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:39:00 +0000

Starting in 2009, the journal RNA Biology will require that authors submitting to their RNA Families section also submit a Wikipedia page summarizing the work. Both will be peer reviewed. For example, Jones, et al. RNA Biology 6, 1-4 (2009) has a corresponding Wikipedia page SmY RNA (via).

Accelerator Mass Spectrometry in Biology and Health Care

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:45:00 +0000

Lecture from UCTV.

Electrospray Videos

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:27:00 +0000

On Youtube.

Also:

Nanospray : Sweet

Electrospray Ionization with Syringe Pump

Electrospray Taylor Cone

Initiating Nanospray

Tickling the Inlet

MALDI of a Copper Age Mummy

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:46:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:34:00 +0000

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

QTOF Lecture

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:56:00 +0000

Raising the bar on scientific presentation production values.

LHC Rap

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:04:00 +0000

(via)

Video Archive: The Mass Spectrometer

noreply@blogger.com (Kermit Murray) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:04:00 +0000

A 1988 video from the University of Hertfordshire Science Centre.