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Mass Spectrometry IDs Dinosaur Protein 
A mass spectrometry technique provided the sequence of a 68 million-year-old protein and thus identified it. The protein was recovered from the bone of a T. rex. When a researcher demineralized the ancient bone, she found that a collagen matrix remained, according to a report in the April 13 issue of Science.
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Making Hay While the Sun Shines
Researchers used 2D electronic spectroscopy, which allows one to follow the flow of light-induced excitation energy through molecular complexes with femtosecond temporal resolution, to unravel the mystery of how photosynthesis can be so efficient. Green plants and cyanobacteria convert sunlight into chemical energy with nearly 100% efficiency.
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New Car Smell Nontoxic
Feel free to breathe that new car smell: those volatile organic compounds may not be so bad after all. Samples from new cars were analyzed by a gas chromatography-mass spectrometry system equipped with a carbon dioxide oven cooling system, a HP-5 capillary column, a flame-ionization-detector (FID), and a mass selective detector. The VOCs showed no detectable toxicity.
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Detecting Drugs in Fish
Amid growing concern about the accumulation of pharmaceutical and personal care products in fish and other aquatic organisms, scientists at Baylor University in Waco, TX developed a liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry method that can screen fish for up to 25 drugs simultaneously.
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Gateway Laser Services
Laser Machining and Welding Services
Specializing in the processing of highly precise components requiring extremely close tolerances. Our high-resolution laser process solves many of the problems associated with traditional laser cutting. We work with a variety of materials including PEEK, metals, alloys, polymers, ceramics, and polyimides. For those who think small and very precise.
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Melles Griot Inc.
Spectrometers
Melles Griot spectrometer systems consist of dedicated electronics, an optical bench, and a detector array. The 13 FOS 100-series spectrometer uses a 102-pixel linear photodiode array; the high-resolution 13 FOS 200-series and 13 FOS 201-series spectrometers use linear charge-coupled detector (CCD) array with 2048 pixels. Find out more.
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Imaging MS
Three microscopic imaging techniques: sum frequency generation, two-photon-excitation fluorescence, and coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering can be used simultaneously to learn about the molecular mechanisms of multiple sclerosis. The combined imaging method shows how MS causes an overproduction of astroglial filaments and degrades the myelin sheaths over nerves.
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Chem-Analysis for Pharmaceuticals
A near-infrared chemical imaging system won an Innovation Award, a new award instituted by the technical journals PROCESS, PharmaTEC, and Schüttgut. The SyNIRgi system won in the Materials Analysis and Characterization section. Chemical imaging is being used increasingly by the pharmaceutical industry. The system was introduced this year at Pittcon.
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Untangling Metallic Messes
How do dissolved metal ions interact in solution? It's a question that can affect how we clean up toxic messes ranging from industrial to nuclear waste. When researchers applied X-ray scattering techniques to the problem, they were able to see ion structures in solution as well as reveal interactions with other ions.
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Bacteria Tip the Balance
A mosquito-sized biosensor can detect amazingly small amounts of disease-causing E. coli bacteria in food in a single-step process taking only minutes. The sensor incorporates a tiny vibrating cantilever, coated with antibodies for E. coli, anthrax, or specific proteins. Antigens that bind to the antibody alter the frequency of the vibration.
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Cosa Instrument Corp.
Yamatake HGC303 Heating Value Gas Chromatograph
The HGC303 packs the functionality and performance of a full-sized, heating-value chromatograph into a 9.6 in., Class 1 Div 1 transmitter. The device is fully ISO and GPA compliant, and performs reliably in all natural gas applications, such as remote wellhead, gas processing plant, gas transmission and distribution points, and enduser. Learn more.
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Continental Scientific
Chromatography Refrigerators
Continental Scientific presents a performance-rated refrigeration system utilizing environmentally-safe R-134a refrigerant. These chromatography refrigerators feature an external digital thermometer and double-pane, tempered hinged glass doors. There is fluorescent interior lighting and heavy-duty, epoxy-coated steel shelves.
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Dice
A Better Job Search by Design
DiceEngineering.com offers thousands of quality engineering jobs at top technology and engineering companies. Find jobs in your area of expertise. Search now.
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Exploring Bio-Inorganic Chemistry
 In mid-July, the 13th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry in Vienna, Austria will explore metals in medicine, metalloproteins, and metal interactions with DNA/RNA/nucleotides. It also will cover: bioinspired coordination chemistry, bioinspired catalysis, metal trafficking, electrontransfer and radicals, metal-based environmental chemistry, biomineralization, bioinorganic clusters and Nanoparticles, metal sensors in biology, and biophysical and theoretical calculations on metal clusters and proteins.
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Crossword for Optics Geeks
Play an online crossword puzzle featuring renowned optics researchers, including the inventor of phase-contrast microscopy as well as the person who discovered that magnetic fields rotate polarization. The puzzle was created by Gabriel Popescu and Kate Bechtel at MIT's George R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory.
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