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New handheld MasSpec Pen can identify meat and fish fraud within seconds

Meat and fish fraud are worldwide issues that cost consumers billions of dollars annually.

1 Apr 2021

Key protein could block the most common cause of food poisoning

Scientists have identified a protein that could be crucial for inhibiting the most common human food poisoning, caused by bacteria, in the United States.

1 Apr 2021

Virus-cell interaction may explain the high infection rate of COVID-19 virus

Bioengineering scientists have now detected a formerly unknown interaction between the spike (or “S”) protein of SARS-CoV-2 and receptors in human cells.

From Lehigh University 29 Mar 2021

New technique can measure thousands of proteins in a few minutes

Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Francis Crick Institute have developed a mass spectrometry-based technique capable of measuring samples containing thousands of proteins within just a few minutes.

26 Mar 2021

Scientists identify new biomarkers in the blood of patients with malignant melanoma

A team of researchers has studied the molecular profile of small “messenger” vesicles called exosomes, produced by cancer stem cells (CSCs), which play a key role in the process of carcinogenesis and metastasis in the blood of patients with malignant melanoma.

26 Mar 2021

Volatile signal in plants activates defense and inhibits growth processes

An international research team has performed a new study that revealed that Arabidopsis thaliana plants create beta-cyclocitral when attacked by herbivores.

10 Mar 2021

Rapid, Direct Mass Spectrometry Characterisation of Difficult Samples

The ionRocket from BioChromato Inc. is a temperature-heating device for direct thermal desorption and pyrolysis of samples, prior to ionization and analysis by mass spectrometry.

From BioChromato Inc. 10 Mar 2021

New infrared microscope helps image biological samples at the microscopic level

Scientists have designed a new spectroscopic microscope to optically measure the orientations and conformations of molecules in biological specimens.

9 Mar 2021

Catechin-type flavonoid compounds in tea relax blood vessels by activating ion channel proteins

A new study from the University of California, Irvine shows that compounds in both green and black tea relax blood vessels by activating ion channel proteins in the blood vessel wall.

9 Mar 2021

Ancient shells provide clues to better predict future warming and ocean acidification

Microscopic fossilized shells are helping geologists reconstruct Earth's climate during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a period of abrupt global warming and ocean acidification that occurred 56 million years ago.

9 Mar 2021

Fluorescent chemical dye helps track specific motor protein within cells

A cell can stay alive only when it supplies all the required energy elements to its various organelles and these elements are formed in the Golgi apparatus.

8 Mar 2021

Researchers find large quantities of previously undetected PFAS

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) found large quantities of previously undetectable compounds from the family of chemicals known as PFAS in six watersheds on Cape Cod using a new method to quantify and identify PFAS compounds.

8 Mar 2021

Promising drug targets identified for aggressive forms of cancers

Scientists have largely been producing transcriptomic data in an attempt to find clues about modified cellular pathways that may be fueling cancer behavior.

5 Mar 2021

Assessing long-term impact of global warming on Siberia's thawing permafrost

Northumbria University is to play a leading role in a major study to assess the long-term impact of global warming on Siberia's thawing permafrost.

From Northumbria University 2 Mar 2021

Researchers use science to take the guesswork out of cheese manufacturing

Making cheese leaves a lot to chance as a batch could be ripened for months or even years before a problem is discovered, which could send a prized batch of cheddar to be sold off cheap as an ingredient for processed cheese.

2 Mar 2021

Oxidation processes play major role in the atmosphere and in combustion

Alkanes, an important component of fuels for combustion engines and an important class of urban trace gases, react via other reaction pathways than previously thought.

24 Feb 2021

Study reveals new therapeutic targets on SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein

Considering the recent COVID-19 pandemic, significant investigations are being made to find out how the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein binds to a human cell.

From Penn State University 23 Feb 2021

Study provides insight into the structure of prion proteins responsible for diseases

Prion diseases are a group of rapidly progressive, fatal and infectious neurodegenerative disorders affecting both humans and animals: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or 'mad cow' disease is one of the most famous since in 1996 scientists found that the agent responsible for the disease in cows, is the same agent responsible for the so-called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), a disease affecting humans.

22 Feb 2021

New gel electrophoresis method allows rapid diagnosis of biomarkers by mass spectrometry

Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is a technique that allows high-resolution isolation of proteins separated from biological specimens.

22 Feb 2021

Combining cholesterol-lowering medications and lifestyle interventions may yield better benefits

Combining healthy lifestyle interventions reduces heart disease through beneficial effects on different lipoproteins and associated cholesterols, according to a study published February 9 in eLife.

17 Feb 2021

Analytical Chemistry News and Research

Latest Analytical Chemistry News and Research

New handheld MasSpec Pen can identify meat and fish fraud within seconds

Key protein could block the most common cause of food poisoning

Virus-cell interaction may explain the high infection rate of COVID-19 virus

New technique can measure thousands of proteins in a few minutes

Scientists identify new biomarkers in the blood of patients with malignant melanoma

Volatile signal in plants activates defense and inhibits growth processes

Rapid, Direct Mass Spectrometry Characterisation of Difficult Samples

New infrared microscope helps image biological samples at the microscopic level

Catechin-type flavonoid compounds in tea relax blood vessels by activating ion channel proteins

Ancient shells provide clues to better predict future warming and ocean acidification

Fluorescent chemical dye helps track specific motor protein within cells

Researchers find large quantities of previously undetected PFAS

Promising drug targets identified for aggressive forms of cancers

Assessing long-term impact of global warming on Siberia's thawing permafrost

Researchers use science to take the guesswork out of cheese manufacturing

Oxidation processes play major role in the atmosphere and in combustion

Study reveals new therapeutic targets on SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein

Study provides insight into the structure of prion proteins responsible for diseases

New gel electrophoresis method allows rapid diagnosis of biomarkers by mass spectrometry

Combining cholesterol-lowering medications and lifestyle interventions may yield better benefits

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