An easy way to find a needle in a haystack by removing the haystack
Friday, June 19, 2009 - 04:56
in Biology & Nature
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena and their colleagues from the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague have developed a new method to quickly and reliably detect metabolites, such as sugars, fatty acids, amino acids and other organic substances from plant or animal tissue samples. One drop of blood - less than one micro litre - is sufficient to identify certain blood related metabolites...