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I’m always having to remind myself when to use what term when it comes to spectroscopy, spectrometry, spectrometers, etc. Not […]
Bacteria are becoming resistant to conventional antibiotics at an alarming rate. Bacteriophages (phages), viruses that infect bacteria, have bacterial-killing defenses […]
More on homology and related terms: Homology terminology (homolog, ortholog, paralog) – plus sequence similarity and identity Google doc version: […]
If you’re like me before a year ago, if you thought of Parkinson’s disease (PD), you thought of the uncontrollable […]
A number of diseases, including the common neurodegenerative diseases Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) share a common cellular […]
Since Stanley Prusiner discovered prions, so-called “infectious proteins” best known for causing “mad cow disease,” it has become clear that […]
I want to start by saying that I am tremendously lucky to have had the privilege to hide away from […]
MS/MS (Tandem MS) comes in many different flavors (e.g. the “triple quadrupole (QqQ), Q-orbitrap (e.g. Q-Exactive), Q-Time of Flight (Q-TOF)), […]
What is metabolomics? My definition: Identifying, measuring and tracking the small biochemical intermediates formed during the making, breaking, and interconversion between biochemical molecules to figure out what organisms are up to.
When it comes to mass spectrometry, don’t confuse high resolution and accurate mass! High resolution is basically having sharp spectral […]
