Advancing metabolomics and precision medicine through novel mass spectrometry technologies Why is metabolomics important?Metabolomics is the large-scale study of metabolites in biofluids, tissue extracts, or organisms. Metabolites are small (<1000 Da),...
Teasing apart the metabolome: CESI-MS separation of small, anionic compoundsMetabolomics, an emerging field focused on the chemical processes central to cellular metabolism gives scientists a snapshot of the cellular metabolic state, or metabolome at a given time....
I had an opportunity to follow up with Steven M Watkins, Ph.D. to talk about the importance of studying lipids in disease. Steve has been working in the lipids field for over 20 years and is one of the foremost experts in lipid biology. Steve founded Lipomics in...
The metabolome is the set of all low molecular weight compounds (typically less than ~2000 Da) that are present within an organism, tissue, or cell. Within the mass spectrometry (MS) community, the systematic and comprehensive analysis of the metabolome – i.e.,...
In the field of metabolomics, you typically choose to identify and characterize as many compounds as possible in an unbiased fashion, or screen for a specific set of compounds that are biologically relevant to your research. The beauty of the TripleTOF® System is that...