Nanostructure-initiator mass spectrometry biometrics

Title: Nanostructure-initiator mass spectrometry biometrics

Several embodiments described herein are drawn to methods of identifying an analyte on a subject's skin, methods of generating a fingerprint, methods of determining a physiological change in a subject, methods of diagnosing health status of a subject, and assay systems for detecting an analyte and generating a fingerprint, by nanostructure-initiator mass spectrometry (NIMS).

Inventors:: Leclerc, Marion; Bowen, Benjamin; Northen, Trent

Issue Date:: 2015-09-08

OSTI Identifier:: 1214154

Assignee:: The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, CA) LBNL

Patent Number(s):: 9,125,596

Application Number:: 13/631,687

Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2012 Sep 28

Research Org:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org:: USDOE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

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A nanostructure-initiator mass spectrometry-based enzyme activity assay
journal, March 2008

Northen, T. R.; Lee, J.-C.; Hoang, L.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 105, Issue 10, p. 3678-3683
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0712332105

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