September 16, 2026

Mass Spec Roundup: Fragment Ions and Fossil Fragments

This week’s stories span AI-assisted metabolite annotation, spatial drug-target engagement, Denisovan proteomics, and machine-learning elemental detection. 

The Analytical Scientist

September 15, 2026

Photodynamic therapy gains FDA approval for superficial BCC

Phase 3 trial data showed greater clinical and histological clearance than with placebo photodynamic therapy.

MDSpire News

September 15, 2026

AI can boost productivity, but blunt creativity expert says

"The impact of AI is making scientists more productive—they publish more papers, but at the same time, those papers become more and more narrow and copies of one another."

MDSpire News

September 15, 2026

ECP 2026: AI Expands SADS Analysis in Autopsies

AI-based tissue analysis detects changes in heart tissue associated with sudden arrhythmic death syndrome

The Pathologist

September 15, 2026

When Breast Lesions Enter the Gray Zone

Digital pathology could support specialist collaboration, workforce flexibility, and more efficient case review

The Pathologist

September 14, 2026

FDA approves FET-PET agent for glioma

The radioactive diagnostic drug is indicated in patients aged 1 month or older and is used in conjunction with other diagnostic evaluations.

MDSpire News

September 14, 2026

ECP 2026: Is HPV-Specific Testing Optimized in Throat Cancer?

Cost and turnaround times are a potential challenge to standardization of testing and optimization of patient pathways

The Pathologist

September 14, 2026

Measles Returns as Vaccination Rates Fall

As cases increase, laboratories and public health teams must be prepared to recognize and investigate suspected infections

The Pathologist

September 14, 2026

A Finer Approach to Native MS

Emily Byrd discusses the cross-platform potential of nanopipette emitters for analyzing proteins directly in challenging biochemical buffers

The Analytical Scientist

September 11, 2026

What it takes to integrate clinical AI

“We want a great doctor, but the people who build the machines don't have any of that in mind."

MDSpire News