Nondestructive surgical mass spec.

The article focuses on a research led by Livia S. Eberlin of the University of Texas in Austin and coworkers who have come up with a biocompatible device that uses discrete water droplets to nondestructively obtain molecular profiles of cancer tissue. It mentions the handheld device delivers a water droplet to the tissue surface, where it gently extracts metabolites, lipids, and proteins.