Drug dis­cov­ery in HD: Ox­ford spin­of­f's mass spec­trom­e­try ap­proach scores fresh fund­ing

The tech­nol­o­gy used to de­tect ex­plo­sives at air­ports — mass spec­trom­e­try — is be­ing pi­lot­ed as an en­gine for drug dis­cov­ery.

Mass spec­trom­e­try is a tool de­signed to mea­sure with pro­found ac­cu­ra­cy the mass of a sin­gle mol­e­cule. Typ­i­cal­ly, mass spec­trom­e­ters can be used to iden­ti­fy un­known com­pounds, to quan­ti­fy known com­pounds, and to de­ter­mine the struc­ture and chem­i­cal prop­er­ties of mol­e­cules.

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