title: BEAMS Lab at MIT: Status report.
abstract: The Biological Engineering Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (BEAMS) Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a facility dedicated to incorporating AMS into life sciences research. As such, it is focused exclusively on radiocarbon and tritium AMS and makes use of a particularly compact instrument of a size compatible with most laboratory space. Recent developments at the BEAMS Lab were aimed to improve different stages of the measurement process, such as the carbon sample injection interface, the simultaneous detection of tritium and hydrogen and finally, the overall operation of the system. Upgrades and results of those efforts are presented here.
authors.affiliation: BEAMS Lab, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Rosa G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Liberman
authors.forename: Paul L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Skipper
authors.forename: Steven R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Tannenbaum
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