Proteomic Sample Multiplexing Comes of Age
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IsoFootprint: Leading the Way in Sustainable Isotope Analysis
Now is the time for climate action. We know that. You know that. The Earth knows it. Climate change is increasingly affecting our lives, and will only get worse unless we act now. This year, leaders f...
Innovation Summit Call for Abstracts Extended to 31 July
The deadline for oral and poster presentation submission for the Innovation Summit has been extended to 31 July to allow you more time to share with us and your colleagues what YOU'VE been doing. In S...
Do You Want a Date with Charlie Chromeleon at Innovation Summit?
It’s on - we’ll be meeting up again, and this time with all your chromatography pals!At Thermo Fisher Scientific we are known for our innovation capabilities in research, and now it’s really time to s...
Are Your Cells on a Star Athlete Diet?
Everyone needs a balanced diet to stay healthy. As an extreme example, professional athletes require a scientifically constructed diet to achieve peak performance, along with a scientifically designed...
A Closer Look into Microplastics
Courtesy of IS-X.Why is plastic — having a lifespan of several hundred years or more — widely used for disposable tools and containers? This is a paradoxical question that is hard to answer, but it pr...
How the New Orbitrap Exploris GC-MS Can Help Enhance Quantitative Performance for Analytical Testing Laboratories
In high-throughput analytical testing laboratories robust streamlined analytical and data processing workflows are key requirements for the accurate and reliable determination of trace level residues ...
Integrative Structural Biology and Its Moment in the Spotlight
If we needed evidence that virus research is an important area to focus on, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and cumulative COVID-19 human health impact have p...
Can we help solve biopharmaceutical development bottlenecks with mass spectrometry?
Grab your coffee and join the conversation as a panel of industry experts discuss the growing need for mass spectrometry throughout all development stages of the biopharmaceutical industry. We will fo...
Tips and Tricks for the Analysis of Polar Pesticides – Q&A With an IC-MS Expert
In a previous blog post titled “IC-MS: The Solution to the Problem Analysis of Polar Pesticides!” I outlined the advantages of Ion chromatography-mass spectrometry (IC-MS) for the analysis of polar pe...
Five Experts and a Bunch of Reasons Why Mass Spectrometry Can Revolutionize the Biopharmaceutical Industry
What do you get if you cross five experts with a webcam and a live Q&A?It is true, the use of mass spectrometry (MS) has grown rapidly over the last 10 years. In the biopharmaceutical industry, we hav...
Re-defining Productivity for Small Molecule, High-resolution Mass Spectrometry Analysis
The moment I committed to a more active lifestyle than my meager 3,000 steps a day, I was instantly in the market for an activity tracker. Primarily, I cared about data accuracy because otherwise what...
2020 Virtual Events – Software Suite Expands Capabilities in Sample Analysis
Even without being able to interact in person this year, scientists in the field of mass spectrometry benefit from new, exciting innovations are being introduced including the new suite of analytical ...
2020 Virtual Events – The New Orbitrap Exploris 240 and 120 Mass Spectrometers Drive Discovery and Identification with Quantitative Precision and Accuracy
ASMS looks quite different this year than it has in the past. While we are all experiencing the continuously growing scientific world in a virtual format, there is no shortage of new and exciting inno...
Challenging Pharmaceutical Impurity Analyses Part 3 – IC-MS Is the Newest Trick in the Book
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series, we touched upon ways ion chromatography (IC) can have more uses in the pharma lab than just for counterion analysis and how it offers a direct approach to pol...
The Silent Threat of Emerging Contaminants
The awareness of emerging contaminants should be attributed to Rachel Carson for her 1962 book “Silent Spring.” She convincingly showed that the widespread usage of DDT to eliminate mosquitoes and oth...
Demystifying UFOs Using PTCR on the Orbitrap Eclipse Tribrid Mass Spectrometer
Confident interpretation of biological mass spectral data is dependent on a priori knowledge and high-quality data. That is, knowing what should be in the sample and being able to extract relevant dat...
Orbitrap Mass Spectrometry and Artificial Intelligence for Bacterial Species Identification in Clinical Research Samples
Arnaud Droit is Associate Professor at Université Laval and director of the Bioinformatics and Proteomics platforms at the Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec - Université Laval. He is an expert in t...
How Do I Get on the Fastest Path to Mass Spectrometry Analysis?
Being completely confident that I have not undercooked my meat dishes (or made my dinner guests sick) has never been my forte. Not too long ago, I discovered a multi-use programmable pressure cooker. ...
ASMS 2019 – Day 2 Recap – New Mass Spectrometer Maximizes Research Insights and Productivity Through Intelligent Data Acquisition Strategies
The second day of ASMS 2019 in Atlanta, GA has come and gone, but the new technology is still as exciting as ever. Scientists in academic, government and biopharmaceutical laboratories faced with incr...
ASMS 2019 – Day 1 Recap – New-Generation Benchtop Mass Spectrometer Advances Quantitative Proteomics and Translational Research
The first day of ASMS 2019 in Atlanta, GA was a success! We’re thrilled to unveil the new compact, benchtop mass spectrometer that unlocks the power of an advanced differential ion mobility interface ...
Ask Yourself These Three Questions When Evaluating a Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry Instrument
Recently, I leased a new mid-sized SUV. Deciding to transition from a sedan to an SUV was a lengthy process as I evaluated how important the extra space was to me. Unfortunately, once I decided to com...
5 Ways to Become a Biopharma MAM Master
More Than MonitoringThe Multi-Attribute Method (MAM) for structural confirmation of protein therapeutics involves a targeted search of peptide mapping data using advanced, GMP compliance-ready softwar...
Purchasing the Right Mass Spectrometer: Triple Quadrupole vs. High-Resolution Accurate Mass Spectrometry
In my last blog post, “Purchasing the Right LCMS: Lessons Learned from Wedding Planning” I encouraged you to think through a couple of key questions around your LCMS instrument purchasing goals. In to...
Purchasing the Right LCMS: Lessons Taken from Wedding Planning
Recently it seems the only question my fiancé and I receive is “How is wedding planning going?” Our sometimes not very enthusiastic answer then yields the question, “Have you considered a wedding plan...
How to Stop Your Mass Spectrometer Procrastination
If 10 years ago you told me I would be writing an article about avoiding procrastination I would have laughed as I thought I was a procrastinator myself. I have come to realise that it wasn’t ‘true’ p...
Found in 90 Seconds: Realizing Reliability in Forensic Toxicology
Illicit drug use and addiction has become an unprecedented public health crisis. According to the CDC, more than 190 people die every day in the United States after overdosing on drugs, with two-third...
Of Tandems and Triples: The Start of My Journey to Understanding Mass Spectrometry
If you’re working for Facebook, you probably don’t want to publicly state that you find social media tedious. Walking around the BMW production floor wearing your “One Less Car” bicycling t-shirt migh...
How to Make Cancer Face the Music
Antibodies are Y-shaped proteins produced by specialized cells of the body’s immune system. They are complex heterogeneous molecules approximately 150k Da in mass. Antibodies can identify and bind dis...
3 Facts You Need to Know about Magnetic Sector Mass Spectrometers
Mass spectrometry works by combining ion formation, mass analysis, and ion detection. The ways in which mass spectrometer technologies separate ions vary and that is why different mass spectrometers a...
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