Journal of Mass Spectrometry: Sports Doping Explored Visit the July issue of JMS and access the full content of the "Sports Doping Explored" Special Issue until the end of August 2008. Read about the history of mass spectrometry at the Olympic Games, new and old challenges of sports drug testing and much more...

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Suffering snakes 
The stable isotope signatures of the excreta of snakes and lizards are amended by food limitation and starvation, say US scientists. The news will be useful for studying the nutritional status of free-living reptiles and possibly other animal groups to which they are related. [August 15, 2008]

History of mass spectrometry at the Olympic Games  [registered users only]
This review of the part played by mass spectrometry in doping control from Munich 1972 to Beijing 2008 Olympics gives an overview of how doping analysis has developed and where we are today. [August 11, 2008]

The flight of the pesticides 
Pesticides from neighbouring states and from across the Pacific Ocean have been identified in the air at an observatory in the Cascade Range in Oregon. The measurements reveal the influence of historic and current use pesticides locally and remotely on the overall pesticide burden. [August 1, 2008]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Bolsters Proteome Dynamics Offering with HUPO Product Launches 
[August 19, 2008]

Waters SYNAPT HDMS and Xevo TQ MS Recognized for Mass Spectrometry Innovation by Industry Experts 
[August 19, 2008]

Bruker Daltonics Showcasing Novel Proteomics Solutions Based on Mass Spectrometry at the 7th HUPO World Congress 2008 
[August 18, 2008]

Princeton University Selects Thermo Scientific MALDI LTQ Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer to Enable Proteomics and Genomics Research on Viruses 
[August 15, 2008]

Putting Past Elucidations to Work for the Future of Antibacterial Research 
[August 13, 2008]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces its 2008 North American Informatics Conference 
[August 11, 2008]

Special issue celebrates 40 years of drug testing at the Olympics 
[August 7, 2008]

Agilent Technologies' Spectrum Mill Searches Now Supported in Proteome Software's Scaffold 2.1 
[August 7, 2008]