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New mass spectrometer reveals human proteins in greater detail

Tue Jan 11, 2011

The National Bio-Organic Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Resource Center's new mass spectrometer, a device that breaks up molecules to identify their chemical compositions based on their mass and charge.

A box just four-feet square is the latest addition to the analytical armory of the National Bio-Organic Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Resource Center, which is directed by Al Burlingame, PhD, a faculty member in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the UCSF School of P