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WWW ChemTools
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- Ion Formula by Mol. Weight
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WWW BioTools
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- EMBL Peptide Search - protein ID from peptide mass and sequence data
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past features
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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 www.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." www.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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MS Journals
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- European Mass Spectrom.
- Intl. J. of Mass Spectrom.
- J. American Society of MS
- J. Mass Spectrometry
- J. MS Society of Japan
- Mass Spectrometry Reviews
- Rapid Communications in MS
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Science Journals
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- Analyst
- Analytical Chemistry
- Nature
- New Scientist
- Science
- Scientific American
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Literature Search
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- Beilstein Abstracts
- ChemWeb
- Current Contents - ISI
- PubMed - NCBI
- PubScience - DOE
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