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I guess a better way to put that would have been "what is the significance of being able to run protein mass-spec by an order of magnitude faster"

The article links this to Alzheimer's research but I was hoping someone on here familiar with the field would be able to point out how significant this advancement is.



Proteomics is the kind of fundamental research that can revolutionize every single area of medicine, biotech, and etc but is too central and general to have immediate applications on any specific thing.




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