The wearing of oil in a mechanical system is a problem that spans the automotive, aerospace and industrial sectors. Because oil is used in mechanical environments, metal particles can become detached ...

Today, mass-spectrometric imaging is already revealing how proteins, peptides and even metabolites are spatially distributed in human and animal tissue slices by acquiring mass spectra across selected ...

Figure 1: Generation of a reference mass-spectrometric map for the yeast proteome. We next used these peptides to generate two reference spectral libraries, each one supporting a commonly used ...

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