The article reports that blood tests for testosterone do not reliably diagnose low sexual desire in midlife women, even when using precise measurement methods. It also notes that testosterone levels show no consistent link to desire across menopausal stages, while some associations exist with other aspects of sexual function that are not strong enough for individual diagnosis.

This article is of interest to psychology-minded readers because it highlights the complex interplay between hormones, sexuality, and psychosocial factors, illustrating how biological measures do not straightforwardly map onto subjective experiences of desire and sexual function.

Article Title: Blood tests for testosterone cannot diagnose low sexual desire in midlife women

Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/blood-tests-for-testosterone-cannot-diagnose-low-sexual-desire-in-midlife-women/

#psychology #womenhealth #sexualfunction #testosterone #menopause #bioethics #laboratorymethods #massspectrometry #psychosocialfactors #womenmidlife

Targeted mass spectrometry calibration — automated, publication-ready, and free for academic life scientists.
CalibraCurve generates and visualizes calibration curves for proteomics, metabolomics, and lipidomics. It assesses quantification limits, linearity, and concentration prediction, produces ggplot2-based plots, and integrates into Nextflow pipelines.
Provided by BioInfra.Prot / de.NBI.

👉 https://github.com/mpc-bioinformatics/CalibraCurve
#Proteomics #MassSpectrometry #Bioinformatics #deNBI #OpenScience

Proteomics Specialist, Human technopole
Human Technopole

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/human-technopole-27778-proteomics-specialist-human-technopole-2/

#corefacility #massspectrometry #msproteomics #proteomics #spatialproteomics #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
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New mass spectrometry machine, 2001-03-23

Commissioned by J. Metson and J. Reid Audiovisual Department -- University of Auckland
The University of Auckland Library via DigitalNZ

http://api.digitalnz.org/records/56450134/source

#UniversityOfAuckland #ScientificApparatusAndInstruments #MassSpectrometry #Image #Museums

How NASA Uses Light to Detect Waste From Mines 🌎

#Earth #MassSpectrometry #Rocks/Minerals

▶️ 1 new video from NASA (SVS) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:How+NASA+Uses+Light+to+Detect+Waste+From+Mines+%28SVS15042_AMD_YouTube%29.webm

Pipeline release! nf-core/mhcquant v3.2.0 - 3.2.0 - Solitude!
Identify and quantify MHC eluted peptides from mass spectrometry raw data
Please see the changelog: https://github.com/nf-core/mhcquant/releases/tag/3.2.0

#dda #immunopeptidomics #massspectrometry #mhc #openms #peptides #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics

RE: https://mastodon.world/@nina_davtian/113364845688520878

And so, this important #study is part of the #TopViewedArticle group!
Thank you again Cindy De Jonge and Francien Peterse for leading this #TeamBacteria #brGDGTs #RoundRobin study!
The credit for the #TopViewedArticle #achievement goes to ALL co-authors/participants, in addition to both #WomenInSTEM lead authors!
🔗: https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GC011583
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#Paper #OpenAccess
#OrganicGeochemistry
#Reproducibility
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🔬 LIFS Lipidomics Workshop 2026 🔬

Ready to elevate your lipidomics data analysis? Join us for this comprehensive, hands-on training course hosted in-person at the 11th Lipidomics Forum in Borstel!

📅 Date: Monday, September 7th, 2026
⏰ Time: 10:00 – 16:30 CEST
📍 Location: On-site (Borstel, DE)
💶 Fee: 20 €

💡 What You Will Learn
- Shotgun Lipidomics
- Targeted LC-MS
- FAIR Data & Analytics

📝 Registration:
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Analytical Chemist
Johns Hopkins University

The McMeniman group at Johns Hopkins is recruiting an analytical chemist to study human scent chemistry scent-based malaria diagnostics.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/johns-hopkins-university-27778-analytical-chemist/

#Analyticalchemistry #AnalyticalMethodDevelopment #GCMS #LCMS #massspectrometry #ScienceJobs #hiring #resea...
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