Mass spectrometry of biomolecules: From PDMS to MALDI

Mother Nature (the Ultimate Chemist): South America holds some of the riche st rain forests in the world where Nature, through the abundance of the ess entials of life has produced a rich spectrum of biological molecules. The e arly inhabitants of these regions, over thousands of years, have, through e xperimentation, identified plants and animals that contain components that they have found to be beneficial for their hearth or so toxic that they can be used as a weapon.