Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectroscopy
April 10, 2018 | Terry Sharrer

Mass Spectrometer
The technology discussed in this piece—capillary electrophoresis-mass spectroscopy—isn’t new. Richard Smith, renowned chemist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, WA) developed CE-MS in 1981, but researchers at the University of Amsterdam have used this technique to identify and characterize variants of urinary peptides that are finely definitive biomarkers of kidney and cardiovascular disease, as well as bladder and prostate cancer. They found, for example, more than 300 variants of erythropoietin—some indicative of disease, others not—which could not have been identified any other way. MORE
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