Bernd Enthaler, a food chemist at Beiersdorf Analytics, has developed a method of skin analysis that provides a better understanding of the skin. The method is called MALDI imaging and combines chemical, physical and image analysis techniques together in a way that yields new information about the biology of the skin. “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 preci...