This Week’s Mass Spec News
By Henry Thomas
May 16, 2025
Rapid infection diagnosis; microplastics in arterial plaque; and studying how flies get frisky(?!)...
2 min read
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Mass Spectrometry
Bacterial Infection Diagnosis in Minutes
May 15, 2025
A new spatial metabolomics approach enables fast, precise, and culture-free diagnosis of bacterial infections
2 min read
Clinical
Metabolomics & Lipidomics
Proteomics
Translational Science
Mass Spectrometry
Trends & Challenges
Precision Medicine 2050: With Ying Ge
By James Strachan
May 13, 2025
Ying Ge discusses how the use of AI to track health, spot early trends, and customize treatment could transform diagnostics 25 years from now
8 min read
Business & Entrepreneurship
Voices in the Community
Keynote Interviews
Opinion & Personal Narratives
Joseph Loo: Let’s Fight Chaos with Collaboration
May 8, 2025
In turbulent times, ASMS President Joseph Loo calls for US researchers to unite, stand resilient, and focus on the continuing mission
4 min read
Blood-Based Biomarkers Could Help Predict Schizophrenia Risk in Cannabis Users
May 7, 2025
Untargeted lipidomics reveals striking metabolic differences between patients with schizophrenia, cannabis use disorder, and dual-diagnosis
1 min read
Liver Tissue Analysis Uncovers Key Mechanisms Driving Hepatocellular Carcinoma
May 7, 2025
A multi-omics study distinguishes two subtypes of chronic liver disease that may progress to liver cancer via distinct molecular pathways
2 min read
Breath Test for Silicosis Delivers Results in Minutes
May 2, 2025
William Alexander Donald, Professor of Chemistry at UNSW, details his team's new chromatography-free diagnostic workflow, which combines direct-injection APCI-MS and machine learning to analyze breath samples in less than two minutes
6 min read
Neil Kelleher: The Human Proteoform Project Could Transform Healthcare
May 2, 2025
We could be 20-30 years away from inventing and integrating next-generation proteomics technologies into healthcare
10 min read
Precision Medicine 2050: With Lingjun Li
April 18, 2025
In the future, AI-assisted diagnostic tools could analyze your health status and prescribe personalized interventions tailored exactly to your biology – but not until we can better detect biomarkers at extremely low concentrations
12 min read
