On the buses 
The levels of traffic-derived volatile organic compounds in public buses serving a medium-sized European city vary according to the route, the time of day and the day of the week. The data have been used to estimate exposures of the driver and passengers in this typical urban environment. [November 15, 2008]

Mass spectrometry in biodefense  [registered users only]
The use of mass spectrometry for rapidly identifying potential bioagents by detecting the masses of unique biomarkers has been discussed in a special feature. [November 10, 2008]

Smelling a rat 
A simple and rapid ambient ionisation technique has been used for the almost instantaneous detection of counterfeit perfumes by mass spectrometry. It provides highly reproducible spectra in seconds and was illustrated using some high profile perfumes and their forgeries. [November 1, 2008]

Protein Forest Delivers Digital ProteomeChip System to Thermo Fisher Scientific 
[November 14, 2008]

Waters To Unveil Xevo TQ MS Applications for Improved Drug Discovery at AAPS 2008 
[November 14, 2008]

Coastal Air Pollution Could Lead to Ozone Formation 
[November 14, 2008]

High-Throughput Mass Spectrometry Analysis with BioTrove's RapidFire(R) System Enables Enhanced Assay Development to Explore Emerging Field of Epigenetics 
[November 14, 2008]

Bruker Daltonics Announces Installations of maXis(TM) UHR-TOF Mass Spectrometers in Top-tier Pharmaceutical and Academic Laboratories 
[November 14, 2008]

Leading proteomics center incorporates EASY-nLC systems into LC-MS set-ups 
[November 11, 2008]

MDS Analytical Technologies Announces Availability of New High-Throughput Method to Detect Melamine in Food 
[November 11, 2008]

Max Planck Institute standardizes on Proxeon instrumentation  
[November 11, 2008]