2008 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry Theme Issue

02 October 2008

Issue 9, 2008 of JAAS features selected articles presented at the 2008 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, Temecula, US.

International Symposium on Metallomics 2007

24 July 2007

Issue 8, 2008 of JAAS features a collection of articles which were presented at the International Symposium on Metallomics 2007, Nagoya, Japan.

New Editorial Board Chair of JAAS

23 July 2008

RSC Publishing is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Detlef Günther as the new Chair of the JAAS Editorial Board.

X-rays make light work of heavy metals

18 July 2008

Shedding light on plants has possible implications for heavy metal decontamination, say Japanese scientists

New journal announcement: Metallomics

12 June 2008

From January 2009, a new peer-reviewed journal, Metallomics: Integrated biometal science, will cover the research fields related to metals in biological systems.

Detecting mercurial proteins

10 July 2008

Mercury tags allow European scientists to detect low abundance proteins

JAAS Timeline Wallpaper

04 April 2008

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Interview: Having a gas

31 March 2008

Gary Hieftje tells Nina Notman about the fun side of science.

Interview: Putting peptides on the map

18 February 2008

Ruedi Aebersold talks to Kathleen Too about proteomics, the PeptideAtlas project and the Trans-Proteomic Pipeline.

Interview: Analyse this

24 January 2008

Joe Caruso talks to May Copsey about warfare agents, proteomics and why elemental mass spectrometry is not just all about the metal.

Lanthanide ions hold key to disease screening

14 January 2008

Canadian researchers have devised a way to assess biological samples for the presence of multiple small molecules.

JAAS Book of Choice

Take a look at the latest JAAS book of choice from RSC Books

Radioactive urine analysis

18 December 2007

A system to detect plutonium in urine quickly in an emergency has been developed by Canadian scientists.

JAAS metallomics and biological elemental speciation

01 February 2008

Visit our metallomics and speciation webpage which collects together all the biologically themed papers published in JAAS.

LIBS detects explosives at a distance

29 November 2007

Chemistry is helping scientists in the US to detect explosives from a safer distance

Interview: Plasma screening

12 November 2007

Norbert Jakubowski talks to Laura Howes about childhood experiments, element-omics and what he'd like to learn from Einstein.

Instant insight: 'Absolute' phosphorylation

21 September 2007

Elemental mass spectrometry is a high flier in the world of quantitative phosphoproteomics.

The phantom of the bone scanners

14 September 2007

Research by Swiss scientists could open the way to better diagnosis and treatment for osteoporosis sufferers.

Finding fission by-products

13 September 2007

Researchers in Canada have developed a method for the rapid ultra-trace measurement of strontium 90 in environmental samples.

Mars rocks

30 August 2007

The way in which the Mars Science Laboratory rover will identify Martian rocks has been tested by French scientists.

Celebrating 21 years of publishing

In 2006 JAAS celebrated 21 years of publishing. A web celebration included past Editorials, the 21 most cited and important papers and an Editor's Choice.

About Metallomics: Integrated biometal science

A new journal covering the research fields related to metals in biological, environmental and clinical systems.