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The next big thing in mass spectrometry | Chemistry World

March 9, 2013 – 10:01 pm
  • The next big thing in mass spectrometry | Chemistry World - It's not quite the ‘elephant in the room’, but an 18 megadalton viral assembly is perhaps the biggest thing in the mass spectrometer (MS). Dutch and US researchers have used quadrupole time-of-flight (QToF) native MS to investigate intact capsids from a bacteriophage – a virus that infects bacteria. While there is theoretically no upper limit on the mass of a particle that might be analysed using ToF MS, the work is far from trivial in breaking through the record.(10.1002/anie.201210197)

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    Protein block could stop MS

    May 1, 2012 – 2:00 am

    Protein block could stop MS - The progression of the debilitating disease Multiple Sclerosis (MS) could be slowed or even halted by blocking a protein that contributes to nerve damage, according to a new study. Reference: S. Petratos et al, Brain, April 26 2012

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    Advance toward a breath test to diagnose multiple sclerosis

    October 29, 2011 – 12:00 am
  • Advance toward a breath test to diagnose multiple sclerosis - Scientists are reporting the development and successful tests in humans of a sensor array that can diagnose multiple sclerosis (MS) from exhaled breath, an advance that they describe as a landmark in the long search for a fast, inexpensive and non-invasive test for MS -- the most common neurological disease in young adults. Their report appears in the journal ACS Chemical Neuroscience.
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