Prof Nicole Strittmatter (left) and first author Wei Chen stand in front of the mass spectrometer with a tissue sample. Credit: Robert Reich / TUM Traditionally, bacterial diseases are diagnosed by the tedious isolation of pathogens and the creation of bacterial cultures. Waiting times of several days are the rule here. Only then can targeted treatment of the disease begin. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Imperial College London have developed a new method to identify...