title: Metabolomics: playing piñata with single cells.
abstract: Mass spectrometry advances in single-cell metabolomics enable the discovery of a new biological insight that is not accessible from population-level studies. A new study reveals that single baker's yeast cells provide sufficient material to study chemical and genetic inhibition of glycolysis and identifies metabolic subpopulations that would be invisible in bulk.
authors.forename: Oscar
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Yanes
mesh_terms: D006019:Glycolysis / Q000502:physiology*; D055432:Metabolomics / Q000379:methods*; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000502:physiology*; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization / Q000379:methods*