This week the NCQBCS hosted a visit from Alexander Makarov, Director of Research for Global Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Makarov, inventor of the Orbitrap mass analyzer, toured the facilities, met with NCQBCS staff to discuss collaborative research projects, and gave a seminar to the entire UW-Madison campus community. The seminar covered the history of Alexander’s conception …
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By John Arnst Despite the best efforts of blood banks and networks, some blood bags end up spoiling before they can make it to patients in need. A blood bag’s spoilage depends on the red blood cells’ ability to avoid hemolysis caused by low ATP levels. The breaking of red blood cells can release byproducts, such as iron and hemoglobin, …
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By David Tenenbaum Three University of Wisconsin—Madison researchers have won a prestigious, five-year grant to establish the National Center for Quantitative Biology of Complex Systems, which will develop next-generation protein measurement technologies and offer them to biologists nationwide. It is proteins that do the work in the body: Hemoglobin, for example, holds oxygen for transport in the blood stream, while …
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A trio of scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is launching a new research center to advance mass spectrometry-based proteomics in biomedical research, with the help of a grant from the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Under the five-year, $6 million P41 grant, Josh Coon, David Pagliarini, and Lingjun Li have started the National …
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