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Vitalea Science Inc. used to need a
submarine-sized machine to measure tiny doses of drugs in patients’ blood.
This month, the company moved from Woodland to Davis and installed a
sleeker, car-sized version of the machine they used at Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory. The new accelerator mass spectrometer fits easily in
the new 7,000-square-foot laboratory, and the company expects to double the
number of samples it processes in a week. Vitalea analyzes samples from
patients given microdoses of drugs, quantities too small to have any health
effects. Accelerator mass spectrometry has the sensitivity to measure those
miniscule amounts, but until now the machines have been too big to fit in
most analytical laboratories.
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The world's smallest accelerator mass
spectrometer was recently installed at Vitalea Science Laboratory in Davis.
Vitalea Science was formed by scientists from UC Davis and Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory and will use the accelerator for analysis in
pharmaceutical, nutritional and toxicology studies.
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Science realise le biosuivi de microdoses - cette entreprise privee
californienne qui realise des essais cliniques applique la technologie de
la spectroscopie d'acceleration ... read
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