News tagged with molecular mass

Better analysis methods for vitamin D

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers with the Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center in Beltsville, Md., design, develop and improve analytical methods for measuring nutritional components ...

Chemistry / Other

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hot cores in dark clouds

(PhysOrg.com) -- The earliest stages in the life of a star are among the most mysterious. This is primarily because stars form inside dark clouds of material that block optical light, and because they form ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New top-down strategy of identifying proteins could lead to early detection of disease

The human genome has been mapped. Now, it's on to proteins, a much more daunting task. There are 20,300 genes, but there are millions of distinct protein molecules in our bodies. Many of these hold keys to understanding disease ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 30, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

The making of dust

(PhysOrg.com) -- On the Earth, dust particles are everywhere - under beds, on bookshelves, even floating in the air. We take dust for granted. Dust is also common in space, and it is found for example in the ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop innovative, freely available software to purify mass spectrometry data

Researchers at University of Toronto and the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, as well as colleagues in Michigan and Scotland, have developed an innovative computational approach -- the first of ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 06, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers Find Way to 'See' Water Molecules Hidden Inside Proteins

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University has discovered a way to look at water molecules hidden deep inside proteins, revealing a network through which information flows ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 21, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

DNA testing of newborn's blood not effective for identifying hearing loss infection

A routine screening test for several metabolic and genetic disorders in newborns, the heel-stick procedure, is not effective in screening for cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, a leading cause of hearing loss in children, according ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Personalized medicine in warfarin therapy

Researchers from the Ohio State University have developed a rapid, multiplexed genotyping method to identify the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that affect warfarin dose. The related report by Yang et al, "Rapid ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Drug discovery process more accurate, less expensive using novel mass spectrometry application

Cancer and cell biology experts at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have developed a new mass spectrometry-based tool they say provides more precise, cost-effective data collection for drug discovery efforts.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers simplify fabrication of nano storage, chip-design tools

Advances by the Rice University lab of James Tour have brought graphite's potential as a mass data storage medium a step closer to reality and created the potential for reprogrammable gate arrays that could ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1

New pheromone helps female flies tell suitors to 'buzz off'

(PhysOrg.com) -- There she is again: the cute girl at the mall. Big eyes. Long legs. She smiles at you. You're about to make your move… but wait! What's she wearing? It's a letterman jacket, one clearly belonging ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1