Applications

Point-of-Care Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

Rapid Quantification of Illicit Drugs in Blood

Medical Swab Touch-Spray Mass Spectrometry

Biogenic Aldehyde Determination by Reactive Paper Spray Mass Spectrometry

Single! Oocyte and Embryo Analysis by DESI-MS

Mass Spectrometry in the Home and Garden

Analyzing Potentially Carcinogenic Byproduct

Lipid Signatures in Mouse Early Embryonic Development

Single Oocyte and Single Embryo Lipid Analysis

Improved Spatial Resolution for DESI-MS Imaging

DESI-MS for Lipid Characterization and Biological Tissue Imaging - Review

Combination of DESI and MALDI MS Imaging for Mapping Lipid and Protein Distribution

Nondestructive, Histologically Compatible DESI-MS Imaging

Nutrition Impact on Oocyte Lipid Profile

DESI-MS Reveals Lipid Metabolism of Individual Oocytes and Embryos

Bacteria Analysis by Swab Touch Spray - Mass Spectrometry

Molecular Diagnosis of Human Brain Tumors

DESI-MS Imaging in Natural Products Research

Other topics:

Drug metabolites in untreated animal tissue 
Justin M. Wiseman, Demian R. Ifa, Yongxin Zhu, Candice B. Kissinger, Nicholas E. Manicke, Peter T. Kissinger and R. Graham Cooks, "Desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry: Imaging drugs and metabolites in tissues", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105 (47), 2008, 18120-18125,doi:10.1073/pnas.0801066105

Chemical fingerprints
Demian R Ifa, Nicholas E Manicke, Allison L Dill and R Graham Cooks, "Latent Fingerprint Chemical Imaging by Mass Spectrometry", Science, 2008 , 321, 805 -805, doi: 10.1126/science.1157199

Rapid non-contact detection of trace explosives
Zoltan Takats, Ismael Cotte-Rodriguez, Nari Talaty, Huanwen Chen and R. Graham Cooks, "Direct, trace level detection of explosives on ambient surfaces by desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry", Chemical Communications, 2005, 15, 1950-1952, doi: 10.1039/b418697d

Chiral quantitative analysis by mass spectrometry
W. Andy Tao and R. Graham Cooks, "Chiral Analysis by Mass Spectrometry", Anal. Chem., 75, 25A – 31A (2003), doi: 10.1021/ac0312110 

Justin M. Wiseman, Satu M. Puolitaival, Zoltán Takáts, R. Graham Cooks, Richard M. Caprioli, “Mass Spectrometric Profiling of Intact Biological Tissue by Using Desorption Electrospray Ionization”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 44, (2005) 7094 – 7097, doi: 10.1002/anie.200502362