In Star Trek, Mr. Spock’s hand-held tricorder can instantly tell what something is made of. We don’t have tricorders yet, but we’re getting close. Portable devices just a little too big to hold in one ...

Mass spectrometry (MS) has long been a cornerstone of chemical and biological analysis, but in biotech and biomanufacturing, it is now experiencing a renaissance. As drug modalities diversify—peptides ...