Most mass spectrometers can process just a few molecules at once: Reengineered prototype does a billion simultaneously

Mass spectrometry is already a powerful tool for determining what kind and how many molecules are present in a given sample.

Roche expands mass spectrometry menu to include steroid assays receiving CLIA 'moderate complexity' designation

Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has categorized its ...
Nature

Mass spectrometry method development

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 ...
Chromatography Online

Beyond High-Accuracy Mass Spectrometry: Why Chromatographic Retention Time Must Reclaim Its Role in Analyte Identification

Its true value depends not on the number of detected features but on the reliability of metabolite identification and pathway analysis. Despite well-established guidelines, annotation and definitive ...

Dalriada Drug Discovery and Topos Bio Announce Collaboration to Advance Drug Discovery for Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

TORONTO and SAN FRANCISCO, March 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Dalriada Drug Discovery ("Dalriada"), a partnered discovery organization supporting small-molecule programs from hit identification through ...
GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News

HDX-MS Plus Computational Methods Provide Novel Approach to Study of Protein-Protein Interactions

The team, from biopharmaceutical company Regeneron, hopes their work will help researchers better understand protein-protein interactions during preclinical development of a drug. “Essentially, we ...
Nature

Mass Spectrometry in Polymer Characterization

Mass spectrometry (MS) has emerged as a pivotal tool in the characterization of polymers, providing unparalleled insights into molecular weights, chemical compositions, and sequence distributions.
GEN

Mass Spectrometry’s Expanding Frontier

Mass spectrometry (MS) has long been a cornerstone of chemical and biological analysis, but in biotech and biomanufacturing, it is now experiencing a renaissance. As drug modalities diversify—peptides ...
Business Wire

Thermo Fisher Scientific Introduces Groundbreaking Mass Spectrometer to Revolutionize Biological Discovery

Thermo Scientific Orbitrap Astral mass spectrometer combines high resolution and speed to accelerate the discovery of new proteins and advance precision medicine WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS ...
Labroots

From Sample to Sequence: Immunopeptidomics on the Orbitrap Astral Mass Spectrometer

Immunopeptidomics is a cutting-edge field focused on identifying and characterizing peptides presented by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) Class I and II molecules on cell surfaces. These ...
Arizona Daily Wildcat

This isn’t your grandmother’s mass spectrometer

UA chemistry and biochemistry researchers are giddy about a big new machine. The university will buy a new mass spectrometer this year, thanks to a $924,995 grant from the National Institutes of ...