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Houseplants as air fresheners

Date: Nov 1, 2009

Author: Steve Down

Two common houseplants have removed volatile aldehydes and ketones from the air at typical concentrations encountered indoors. The results help to support the premise that plants could be used to clean indoor air.

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Wine without frontiers

Date: Oct 15, 2009

Author: Steve Down

Tempranillo wines from Spain and Australia have been distinguished from each other using a mass spectrometry-based electronic nose to detect the volatile components in the headspace.

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Interpretation of urinary concentrations of pseudoephedrine and its metabolite cathine in relation to doping control

Date: Oct 12, 2009

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Analysis of 116 in-competition urine samples containing pseudoephedrine in 2007 and 2008, revealed that 66% had elevated concentrations of pseudoephedrine. The researchers recommended that WADA reintroduce pseudoephedrine to the prohibited list.

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IC/MS for black powder substitutes

Date: Oct 1, 2009

Author: Steve Down

Black powder substitutes containing ascorbic acid as a fuel can be detected before and after firing by ion chromatography/mass spectrometry. The technique recognises the inorganic anions and their combustion products, as well as the ascorbic acid degradation products, in a single run.

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Impure thoughts

Date: Sep 15, 2009

Author: Steve Down

The capabilities of four ionisation techniques used in conjunction with capillary electrophoresis/mass spectrometry have been compared for the profiling of low-level impurities in drugs.

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From large analogical instruments to small digital black boxes: 40 years of progress in mass spectrometry and its role in proteomics. Part II 1985-2000

Date: Sep 14, 2009

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This paper reviews the mass spectrometry timeline of events from 1985 to 2000, stopping where MS made significant contributions to protein chemistry or where the development of new instrumentation for MS represented a major advance for peptide and protein work.

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Ambient olive oil analysis

Date: Sep 1, 2009

Author: Steve Down

A fledgling ambient ionisation technique using a low-temperature plasma has been demonstrated for the mass spectrometric analysis of olive oil in a proof-of-principle study of its application to complex non-aqueous matrices.

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Medical diagnosis expanded by mass cytometry

Date: Aug 15, 2009

Author: Steve Down

A novel mass spectrometer based on ICPMS with a time-of-flight detector has been used to measure up to 20 antigens in single cells from leukaemia patients. It could radically change the way in which clinical samples are analysed in the future, allowing the simultaneous detection of many disease markers in a single experiment.

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Blood volume and red cell mass in children with moderate and severe malaria measured by chromium-53 dilution and GC/MS

Date: Aug 10, 2009

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Non-radioactive chromium-53 labelling and mass spectrometry was used to investigate red cell volume (RCV) in Gabonese children with malaria. Although the red cell mass is depleted in malaria, the blood volume appears relatively well preserved.

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Monkey business

Date: Aug 1, 2009

Author: Steve Down

Steroid levels in the saliva of chimpanzees vary diurnally and are strong indicators of circulating steroid levels, say Japanese researchers, using LC/MS for measurements. They hope to use the discovery to examine the causal relationships between steroid hormone levels and animal behaviour.

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