• GERMANY: Beiersdorf’s new method of skin analysis, called Maldi Imaging, combines chemical, physical and image analysis techniques to yield new information about skin biology. “With Maldi Imaging hundreds of the substances that make up the skin-like proteins and lipids can be simultaneously captured in a measurement. This makes it possible to precisely map the composition and condition of the layers of the skin,” said Bernd Enthaler, a food chemist at the company. If healthy and problem skin...