Content by Tecan Schweiz AG

Mass spectrometry (MS) technology has advanced extremely rapidly over the last decade, with MS techniques now being widely used in life science research, and even finding their way into the clinical setting for diagnostic applications. As one of the first sectors to adopt MS technology, the drug discovery market has been at the forefront of this revolution and, as such, has now become one of the first areas of research to run up against the major limitation of the technique—sample preparation.