Mass spectrometry is a cornerstone technique across various scientific disciplines, enabling precise analysis of complex samples, characterization of atom clusters and molecules, and elucidation of ...
Understanding how fat molecules are distributed and function in living organisms is key to uncovering mechanisms of aging, disease, and metabolism. Caenorhabditis elegans, a transparent roundworm, is ...
A research team led by scientists from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with partners, has developed a novel high-spatial-resolution ...
Imagine being able to look inside a single cancer cell and see how it communicates with its neighbors. Scientists are celebrating a new technique that lets them study the fatty contents of cancer ...
In a recent study published in the journal Nature Metabolism, a team of researchers conducted detailed longitudinal profiling and analysis of the lipidome using plasma samples from over a hundred ...
The universe is awash in billions of possible chemicals. But even with a bevy of high-tech instruments, scientists have determined the chemical structures of just a small fraction of those compounds, ...
For biologists, seeing is believing. But sometimes biologists have a hard time seeing. One particularly vexing challenge is seeing all the molecules in an intact tissue sample, down to the level of ...
Producing high-quality data is just one aspect of scientific research and development. If that data is not easily referenceable, who knows what kind of discoveries could be slipping through the cracks ...
Ten consecutive tissue sections from a single C. elegans nematode, shown as optical images (left stack) and corresponding lipid distribution maps generated by MALDI mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) ...