Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) has been used as a microbial identification technique for more than a decade, overcoming the limitations of ...

What is MALDI-TOF? How would you use it? How does it work and what is available? Why would you use it? How would it help solve your problems and what answers could it give? Where would you use it?

Until recently, clinical diagnostic laboratories predominantly relied on conventional phenotypic ways of diagnosing infections, and sometimes on gene sequencing techniques. The latest advancements in ...

MALDI imaging — an analytical technique that detects potential biomarkers directly from tissue sections — has become popular over the last 10 years. One significant aspect is the development protocols ...