*Correspondence to: Alicia Lundby; Email: [email protected]; Jesper V Olsen; Email: [email protected] Submitted: 06/20/13; Accepted: 07/12/13 http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/cc.25883 Comment on: Lundby A, et al. Sci Signal 2013; 6:rs11; PMID:23737553; http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/scisignal.2003506 The last decade has witnessed a tremendous advance in mass spectrometric instrumentation, sample...

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