Most mass spectrometers can process just a few molecules at once: Reengineered prototype does a billion simultaneously

Mass spectrometry is already a powerful tool for determining what kind and how many molecules are present in a given sample.
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Rockefeller prototype mass spectrometer analyzes 1B molecules at once

Scientists at The Rockefeller University have built a prototype mass spectrometer that can process over a billion molecules ...