Category Archives: Metabolomics

Fluorous at ASMS

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Jeff

Fluorous techniques for biological sample enrichment will be on display at the 57th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry, to be held from May 31 to June 4, 2009 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA.   Here’s a list of … Continue reading →

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Analysis of Biofluids by NIMS

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Marv

Prof. Gary Siuzdak and co-workers at the Scripps Research Institute along with collaborators at Pfizer have just published a paper in Analytical Chemistry describing nanostructure initiated mass spectrometry (NIMS) in tissue and biofluid analysis.  They first reported the NIMS technique … Continue reading →

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New Chemical and Biological Applications of Fluorous Technologies

Posted on November 7, 2008 by Marv

That’s the title of a Chem. Comm feature article by Profs. Wei Zhang and Chun Cai. As the title suggests this review describes some of the more recent applications of fluorous techniques including organocatalysts, biocatalysis, microarraying, and microfluidics. Essentially, areas … Continue reading →

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Fluorous Nanostructure-Initiator MS (NIMS)

Posted on March 8, 2008 by Marv

Just published online is a very interesting PNAS paper from Profs. Chi-Huey Wong and Gary Siuzdak at Scripps describing their work in developing enzyme activity assays using MS detection. Specifically, they have extended the scope of the nanostructure-initiator MS (NIMS) … Continue reading →

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