September 15, 2007

Ion Mobility Separation Animation



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

August 26, 2007

Scivee: Science TV

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

July 26, 2007

Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry and the Tour de France

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

July 12, 2007

Cyclotrons, Synchrotrons, Mass Spectrometers, and Cloud Chambers

A physics lecture by Prof. Walter Lewin of MIT.



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July 10, 2007

Blogroll Cleaning

TIme for a blogroll cleaning. The old blogroll is in the comments.

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July 07, 2007

MALDI Sample Preparation: The Ultra Thin Layer Method

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.

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June 28, 2007

Really Old Peanuts

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

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June 27, 2007

Protein Synthesis Interpretive Dance



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

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June 25, 2007

Mass Spectrometry Videos


(via)

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June 24, 2007

NIH Videocasts on Proteomics

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

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June 18, 2007

SIMS Video



Pradeep Haldar shows off the University of Albany College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering's SIMS instrument.

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June 07, 2007

LOL Mass Spectrometry

A mashup of Lolcat and MS journal newsfeeds (via; via)

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June 01, 2007

Wikipedia Hegemony

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.

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May 15, 2007

Dinosaurs, Chickens and Mass Spectrometry (Video)



YouTube - Dino Protein is for the Birds

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April 30, 2007

Boris A. Mamyrin: 1919-2007

Boris A. Mamyrin, inventor of the mass reflectron, died March 5, 2007, at the age of 87 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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