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Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry is a soft ionization method used in the detection of various chemical compounds with a broad mass range. MALDI-TOF can be applied in biology to the study of nucleic acids and proteins.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces the Launch of the EXENT® Solution with IVDR Certification

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced the commercial launch of the EXENT® Solution, after receiving IVDR certification.

28 Aug 2023

A high-throughput drug discovery assay for the endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidase 1

The January 2023 issue of SLAS Discovery contains a collection of four full-length articles and one technical brief covering cancer research, high-throughput screening (HTS) assay development and other drug discovery exploration.

31 Jan 2023

Rapid prognosis of SARS-CoV-2 by MALDI-TOF MS

Gomila et al. recently uploaded a study to the preprint server medRxiv* (November 2020), aiming to utilize MALDI-TOF MS to analyze the sera of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 in a range of disease severity states.

6 Nov 2020

Study shows promise for developing novel COVID-19 therapeutics

A protein known as polymerase is used by SARS-CoV-2—the coronavirus that is responsible for causing the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic—to replicate its genome within the infected human cells.

1 Jul 2020

Progesterone induces sperm release from oviductal epithelial cells by modifying sperm proteomics

An international team of researchers has uncovered valuable insights on the underlying mechanisms involved in the process of sperm release from the oviduct.

10 Feb 2020