Chemists weigh intact virus mixture with mass spectrometer

Tuesday, June 2, 2015 - 12:00 in Physics & Chemistry

Carnegie Mellon University chemists, led by Mark Bier, have separated and weighed virus particles using mass spectrometry (MS). This is the first time that researchers successfully used matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization MS to analyze a mixture of intact virus particles.

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