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2D-LC analysis of phosphopeptides in brain tissue using Ettan MDLC and Finnigan LTQ

phosphopeptide • two-dimensional liquid chromatography (2D-LC) • Ettan MDLC • LC-MS/MS • reversed-phase chromatography (RPC) • strong cation exchange (SCX) chromatography • linear ion trap mass spectrometer A 2D–LC-MS method was developed to analyze phospho-peptides in mouse brain tissue. The...

Sensitive identification of phosphopeptides in brain tissue using Ettan MDLC and Finnigan LTQ

GE Healthcare, Uppsala, Sweden A 2D–LC-MS method was developed to analyse phosphopeptides in mouse brain tissue. The trypsin-digested tissue was separated by strong cation exchange chromatography (SCX), followed by reversed-phase chromatography (RPC) using Ettan MDLC. The detection was...

Separating hope from hype in stem-cell research

scientist James Thomson figured out how to keep stem cells alive long enou...

Phillips Plastics to help develop orthopedics with stem cells

The agreement with BioE, Inc., which develops human ste...

CEO of healthcare group still hopeful IT will save employers money

Stephen Lieber, president and CEO of the ,...

City of Hope adds second TomoTherapy system

The facility, a leader in the field of bone marrow transplantation, is among a growing number of treatment centers...

Stem cells raise hopes, but is there money in them?

Cell transpl...

Chippewa Valley reps hope to score at Twin Cities tradeshow

The Medical Design & Manufacturing tradeshow at the Minneapolis Convention Center on November 2nd and 3rd is expected to draw over 7,000 medical equipment and pharmaceutical company ex...

Total marrow irradiation using TomoTherapy System performed at City of Hope

"We wanted to explore the use of TomoTherapy to selectively deliver radiation therapy to the entire marrow compartment, sparing radiation to critical normal organs such as lung, heart, b...

Vector Surgical hopes to turn frustration into faster surgeries

Surgeons have little enough time without spending inordinate amounts of it on rote procedures. For Milwaukee-area general surgeon Michael Phillips, frustration with having...

Grant winners hope to cultivate job-creating tech businesses

Business incubators are nothing new to Wisconsin the state has dozens of them operating but several of them are using a new round of state grants to inject fresh life into a tried-and-true concept. The Wisconsin Department of Commerce has awarded 26 grants totaling more than $750,000 from the state's Community Based Economic Development (CBED) and Community Development Block Grant (CDB...

VoIP breaks out, but let's hope it doesn't become a verb

) that lets me make peer-to-peer voice calls from my computer to anyone else on the Skype platform. My interest in the product wasnt purely theoretical. Certa...

Doyle builds bridges and hopes for deals in Japan

In Japan as part of a fact-finding mission with several Wisconsin representatives, Doyle has been speaking at biotechnology meetings and networking with Japanese business re...

The New Green Revolution offers hope to poor farmers and poor consumers

SAN FRANCISCO Outside the convention hall, I stopped last week to chat with a protester whose sign read: Biotechnology is making poor farmers poorer. He was a young and pleasant enough guy just caught up in his own rhetoric. I told him biotechnology may be the last, best hope for the worlds poorest farmers, not to mention the hundreds of millions of people who dont get enough to eat be...

Hope For Some U.S. Tech Workers

Technology companies require a very special breed of person to staff customer support centers. These specialists must be able to diffuse caller's frustrations caused by a breakdown of a complicated computer system, and then be able to sort through all the complex issues to fix the problem. Finding these very talented people is not an easy task, and in the hiring process most managers look for a h...

Governors Growth Council hopes to go light on paperwork and heavy on ideas

MADISON -- Retired health insurance executive Tom Hefty has seen blue-ribbon government panels come and go over the years. In fact, Hefty sometimes displays a thick file of reports spanning 20 years of commissions, councils and advisory boards as a reminder that writing thoughtful research papers is only useful if it leads to action. So its a good thing that Hefty, who retired last year...