{"id":166591,"date":"2023-06-28T13:25:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T18:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/new-mass-spectrometry-combo-offers-promise-for-tapping-natures-unknown-chemical-universe"},"modified":"2023-06-28T13:25:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T18:25:53","slug":"new-mass-spectrometry-combo-offers-promise-for-tapping-natures-unknown-chemical-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/new-mass-spectrometry-combo-offers-promise-for-tapping-natures-unknown-chemical-universe","title":{"rendered":"New mass spectrometry combo offers promise for tapping nature\u2019s unknown chemical universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-mass-spectrometry-combo-offers-promise-for-tapping-natures-unknown-chemical-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The universe is awash in billions of possible chemicals. But even with a bevy of high-tech instruments, scientists have determined the chemical structures of just a small fraction of those compounds, maybe 1%.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the Department of Energy\u2019s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are taking aim at the other 99%, creating new ways to learn more about a vast sea of unknown compounds. There may be cures for disease, new approaches for tackling climate change, or new chemical or biological threats lurking in the chemical universe.<\/p>\n<p>The work is part of an initiative known as m\/q, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnnl.gov\/projects\/mq-initiative\">\u201cm over q\u201d <\/a>\u2014shorthand for mass divided by charge, which signifies one of the ways that scientists measure chemical properties in the world of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/mass+spectrometry\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mass spectrometry<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The universe is awash in billions of possible chemicals. But even with a bevy of high-tech instruments, scientists have determined the chemical structures of just a small fraction of those compounds, maybe 1%. Scientists at the Department of Energy\u2019s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are taking aim at the other 99%, creating new ways to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}