Mass Market Mass Spec?

Mass Spectrometers are so versatile, they can be used in place of other medical diagnostics. Nature (Feb 2003) reports using MS for malaria diagnosis. (diabetes, etc...) But the scientists agree it needs to be cheaper.
HELIX is simple enough to be built by undergraduates!
My own goal is to put a M/dM=10,000 Dalton resolution MS into a cell-phone. Already the cell phone is a digital ear and digital eye. Soon it will be a digital nose.
Applications: Bomb detection, anti-terrorism, home safety, drug testing, medical tests, or everything a german shepard could tell you if he could talk.
(During Spring Break I will be attending PittCon`03 )

Mass Spectrometers are so versatile, they can be used in place of other medical diagnostics. Nature (Feb 2003) reports using MS for malaria diagnosis. (diabetes, etc...) But the scientists agree it needs to be cheaper.