Excess adipose fat accumulation, or obesity, is a growing problem worldwide in terms of
both the rate of incidence and the severity of obesity-associated metabolic disease. Adipose …

Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) has gone through a significant change over the last 3
years, the time span of this review. The predominant mass spectrometric method in …

For many species of insects, lipid pheromones profoundly influence survival, reproduction,
and social organization. Unravelling the chemical language of insects has been the subject …

Lipid shuttling between neurons and glia contributes to the development, function, and
stress responses of the nervous system. To understand how a neuron acquires its lipid …

The applications of organic matrices for matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization mass
spectrometry (MALDI-MS) are reviewed. Recent advances of MALDI-MS using organic …

The Drosophila wing was proposed to be a taste organ more than 35 years ago, but there
has been remarkably little study of its role in chemoreception. We carry out a differential …

Recent innovations in single-cell technologies have opened up exciting possibilities for
profiling the omics of individual cells. Minimally invasive analysis tools that probe and …

Herbivorous insects encounter diverse plant specialized metabolites (PSMs) in their diet,
that have deterrent, anti-nutritional, or toxic properties. Understanding how they cope with …

Arsenic-containing lipids (arsenolipids) are natural products of marine organisms such as
fish, invertebrates, and algae, many of which are important seafoods. A major group of …

Appropriate sample preparation is one of the most critical steps in mass spectrometry
imaging (MSI), which is closely associated with reproducible and reliable images. Despite …