Masha G. Savelieff, PhD, is a full-time
science writer and co-founder of SciGency
Science Communications. She obtained her
PhD in chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and performed
research in medicinal chemistry, Alzheimer’s
disease, and cancer biology before becoming a
full-time writer.
Microbial identification by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry has made the leap from bench to bedside in just a decade