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Bone Reveals 55,000 Year Old
Protein
Mass
spectrometry has been used to identify the
protein osteocalcin from a bone of an
ancient Bison in Siberia...
Mass
Fingerprints Could Tackle Trade in Illegal
Furs
Scientists
at Saarland University in Germany have
proposed the use of mass spectrometry to
characterise animal hair that may help to
tackle the trade in illegal fur...
Fenn
and Tanaka Present Nobel
Lectures
John Fenn
and Koichi Tanaka have presented their
Nobel Lectures at Stockholm University in
Sweden...
Comet Fly-By
NASA's
Stardust probe flew to within 3300 kms of
comet Annefrank on November 2nd with a
mass spectrometer onboard...
Defensins Inhibit
HIV
Researchers
in New York have identified proteins that
inhibit the human immunodeficiency virus
that causes AIDS using mass
spectrometry...
Mass
Spectrometry Skills in Demand for Drug
Discovery
John
Michnowicz, the Proteomics Program Manager
for Agilent Technologies, describes the
value of mass spectrometry skills in drug
discovery teams in a Nature review
article...
Earth's Mass
Redistributes - The Earth has "suddenly"
started to undergo a major redistribution
of its mass from high latitudes to the
equatorial regions...
Viking's Travels - Scientists have used mass
spectrometry to carbon date a parchment
map of the New World that predates
Christopher Columbus' voyage by about 50
years...
Mayan
Chocolate -
Mass
spectrometry has revealed traces of cocoa
on ceramic jugs at a Mayan archaeological
site in northern Belize...
The Beagle has
Landed -
The Beagle 2
lander carrying an onboard mass
spectrometer will ride to Mars as part of
the European Mars Express mission in
2003...
Trees May Harm
Environment
- Researchers at Texas A&M
University have found that oak trees can
give off harmful pollutants and may
contribute to greenhouse effects using
mass spectrometry...
Conflict Diamonds Elude Mass
Spectrometry
- Scientists
conclude that mass spectrometry does not
offer a solution for identifying conflict
diamonds...
Ticket to Jail - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
scientists are developing a mass
spectrometry based instrument to sample an
airline passenger's ticket for
explosives...
Jesus or
Jacques? -
Controversy
over the origins of the Turin Shroud
remains following radio-carbon dating
measurements by mass spectrometry over a
decade ago...
Testing the
Troops -
Military
personnel of the Gulf and Kosovo conflicts
are to have urine tests for radation
exposure by mass spectrometry...
Earth's Mantle
Exposed -
Researchers
in Japan have used secondary ion mass
spectrometry to show that compounds in the
Earth's lower mantle can store up to five
times more water than the world's
oceans...
Say Cheese - French scientists have used
mass spectrometry to sample the vapor off
cheeses in order to fingerprint and
classify different varieties...
Life
is Sweet
- A controversial theory that
sugar-related molecules may have seeded
life on earth has been boosted by GC-mass
spectrometry studies of meteorites...
Mass
Spectrometry Evidence for
Tetraoxygen - Scientists in Rome breathe
new life into evidence for an elusive form
of oxygen using mass spectrometry...
Carbon
Dating of Cave Art - Mass Spectrometry dates
prehistoric cave paintings in southern
France at 30,000 years that have the art
world rethinking its origins...
A
Fishy Business - Low levels of oestrogens
detected by mass spectrometry have been
shown to be responsible for sex changes in
male fish in polluted
rivers...
On
the Nose -
Researchers in Germamy
show that mice prefer to mate with
partners that express different MHC
genes by
studying markers in urine using mass
spectrometry...
Pacific
Coral Signals Climate
Change -
Scientists at the Scripps
Research Institute have used mass
spectrometry to measure isotope ratios of
oxygen absorbed in coral to reveal climate
change ...
Science
Says -
The NetWatch section of the
July 6 issue of Science magazine
describes i-mass.com as the dedicated mass
spectrometry site offering "news briefs
gleaned from technical and popular
publications, tip-offs to valuable journal
articles, links to labs, and the
all-important jobs list"...
Special
Delivery - The space shuttle
Atlantis has delivered a quadrupole mass
spectrometer to the international space
station to monitor leaks at the orbiting
facility ...
Mass
Spectrometry Can Be
Fun - According to New
Scientist Magazine "Mass Spectrometry may
not sound like the most exciting
scientific venture. Luckily for us
ignoramuses, the Internet has a web site
which shows we got it all wrong."
i-mass.com is featured in the magazine's
Web
Links section which categorizes
the best science sites on the web ...
Molecular
Hitchhiking on a Comet - Mass
spectrometry shows molecules can survive
an impact with Earth and may have seeded
life on the planet ...
Mass
Spectrometry Solves Murder
Mystery - A former medical
examiner has been convicted of murdering
his wife following the use of mass
spectrometry to identify the presence of a
by-product of the drug succinylcholine
...
Mass
Spectrometry Unearths Mexico's
Maize - Accelerator MS provides
evidence of early agriculture in the
Mexico highlands after dating the age of
maize cobs at over 6200 years old...
A
Sequence for all
Mankind -The first draft
sequences and analysis of the human genome
are announced in articles published
simultaneously in Science and Nature
magazines. Now what? ...
Mass
of the Universe - Scientists
may finally have a reliable estimate of
the mass of the universe based on
measurements of background microwave
radiation ...
New
Bucky Balls are
identified from the mass spectra of
metallofullerenes that break the
isolated-pentagon rule ...
Airport
Security - Ion mobility mass
spectrometry is to be used as part of a
walk through "sniffer" that can detect
persons carrying narcotics at airports
...
Origins
of Mass - Scientists have caught
a tantalizing glimpse of the elusive Higgs
boson that gives particles their mass
...
MS
at the Olympics - Mass
spectrometry is being used at the Sydney
2000 Olympic games to identify the use of
performance enhancing drugs and steriods
...
A
Global Warning - An
international team of environmental
researchers have discovered a new
greenhouse gas, trifluoromethyl sulfur
pentafluoride (SF5CF3), after studying
stratospheric air samples by gas
chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)
...
Mars
Revisited - The NASA Mars Global
Surveyor has identifed gullies or valleys
on the martian surface that indicate the
presence of water and the possibility of
earlier life. Did previous MS experiments
miss the mark? ...
A
Good Read - Amidst a lot of
fanfare, and not without a little
politics, the first draft sequence of the
human genome is announced in the U.K. and
U.S. ...
In Deep
Water - ICP mass spectrometry
has followed variations in the isotopes of
iron in the ocean crust that appear not to
have been caused by biological events
...
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