Increase in Analysis costs
Along with everyone else, the mass spectrometry facility is feeling the effect of inflation and prices rises. For the first time since 2018 we have had to increase our mass spectrometry access charges. These are…
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Updated Delivery Address
The Biomolecular Sciences Building is back up and running after the devastating fire 3 years ago. Reception has now moved from its temporary home in the Willie Russell Laboratories back in to the BMS Building. All…
End of the MALDI era at St Andrews
Our workhorse 4800 has given up after many years faithful service. Unfortunately there is just not the demand for MALDI proteomics to justify the costs in fixing it, so we will no longer be able to offer MALDI…
New Fusion Lumos
Our new mass spectrometer is installed and operational. With BBSRC 19Alert equipment grant funding we purchased a Thermoscientific Fusion Lumos orbitrap mass spectrometer with a standard HPLC (Vanquish) and nano LC…
New Mascot server
We have recently upgraded our mascot server hardware. The new link to the server is https://newbsrcmascot.st-andrews.ac.uk/mascot/ . The login and password will remain the same as before.
Facility fully open
The BSRC mass spectrometry and proteomics facility is fully open and able to analyse your samples. We aim to have at least one member of staff in the facility each day, and can always be contacted on massspec @…
Temporary suspension on on-line sample submission
We have had a few issues with the on-line sample submission that we set up at the start of the year. Whilst we sort out these problems we have reverted back to your previous paper submission. Links to the form to…
New Xevo G2 ToF for intact mass measurement is installed
Our new mass spectrometer for intact mass measurement is now operational. We can now offer intact mass analysis with increased sensitivity and efficiency.
Temporary suspension of Intact Mass Analysis
On the 17th April we will retiring the LCT mass spectrometer after many years of faithful service. This is the instrument that we use to measure the intact mass of proteins. However on the 29th April we are getting a…
Biomolecular Sciences Building Fire
Here is a picture of the fire, we are so lucky that we are unscathed, but our thoughts are with the many research groups who are affected and have lost so much research and equipment The Mass Spectrometry and…