Techniques & Tools

How plants respond to excess salt; characterizations of PFAS; and a new figure at the head of JASMS

CryoNanoSIMS provides the first visual evidence of how plants handle salt stress

Plucking pathogens from the air, metabolite fingerprinting of cortical areas, and rapid detection of drug abuse via tear analysis

Views on personalized medicine; proteomic screening of liver cirrhosis; and sunscreen for bacteria(?)

Chromatography perspectives, analysis of blubber from whales, and developments in the search for Cleopatra’s sister…

Chromatography-free techniques can speed up analysis time from minutes to seconds while also eliminating 95 percent of organic waste

It is time to stop, think, and go back to chemistry to explore our methodologies at a deeper level

“Cryofixing” Raman microscopy’s signal-to-noise problem, miniaturized all-fiber photoacoustic spectrometer, and more spec-tacular stories!

Reflections from the past year, the story of XCMS-METLIN, and analysis of Antarctic ice… the mass-spec newsletter is here!

How Gary Siuzdak’s team mastered the art of distinguishing signal from noise, uncovering molecular identities hidden in the clutter of raw data