Inflammation Thread Runs across Medical Laboratory Specialities

Figure 1

Metabolome profiling. Real-time metabolome profiling by injection of living bacteria, yeast, or mammalian cells into a high-resolution mass spectrometer enabling automated monitoring of several hundred metabolites can be simultaneously quantitatively estimated within minutes in a circuitry displayed in the work published by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Output-fluxes of ~300 compounds using automated monitoring in 15–30 s cycles over several hours are possible. The figure is a simplified transposition of single data points from hundreds of possible analyses (squares, randomly highlighted with colors) becoming linked using bioinformatics into series and categories meaningful for exploration [29].