“Metabolomics is the study of small molecules within a biological system. Its popularity has soared in the past decade thanks to its potential to provide information on the overall physiological state of an organism. Metabolomics techniques would not be possible without high-sensitivity, high-resolution techniques such as mass spectrometry. High-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) provides the highest…
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Assessing human health from a single drop of blood
Protein levels from vials of whole blood are generally clinically determined using single-protein immunoassays. However, according to research by Geyer et al., a single drop of blood and a mass spectrometer may be all that’s needed to assess human health and disease. Read my review on Geyer et al.’s paper over at Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Accelerating Science Blog….
Combining the power of mass spec and protein crystallography
See my review of the paper: Bogdanoff, W.A., et al. (2016) “De novo sequencing and resurrection of a human astrovirus-neutralizing antibody,” ACS Infectious Diseases, 2(5) (pp. 313–321) over here at Thermo Fisher’s Accelerating Science blog. Featured image: via Wikimedia Commons Attribution: CSIRO [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons
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