The worst part by far, though, is the characterization. It completely lacks the inventiveness of its predecessors, though – it attempts to draw modern relevance through the use of 3-D printing, but that means no scenes of familiar plastic objects coming to life and menacing the populace. But wait, you ask, didn’t we basically get that story in “Spearhead from Space” and then again in “Terror of the Autons?” Yes! If you’ve seen those stories, there’s very little reason to listen to “UNIT: Extinction,” as it hits almost all the same beats, starting with the plastic spheres crashing to Earth from space and finishing with a horrible monster manifesting in a glass tank. Without the Doctor around, it’s up to UNIT to avert the invasion. The plot, in a nutshell: the Nestene Consciousness has returned to Earth, and it is once again animating the planet’s plastic supply into killer Autons. Unfortunately, this first trip into a new era is wholly unmemorable and stands as a colossal disappointment instead of a bold leap forward. The first hint of this came with the appearance of new series Daleks in Gallifrey VI, but “UNIT: Extinction” is the first full example, bringing Kate Stewart, Osgood, and others together in a four-story box set from Matt Fitton and Andrew Smith. Anal Chem 88:7745–7753.After years of being restricted to only the Doctors and characters from the “classic” series of Doctor Who, Big Finish finally acquired a license to the “new” series and proceeded forth with a raft of new material. Heijs B, Holst S, Briaire-De Bruijn IH et al (2016) Multimodal mass spectrometry imaging of N-glycans and proteins from the same tissue section. ĭenti V, Piga I, Guarnerio S et al (2020) Antigen retrieval and its effect on the MALDI-MSI of lipids in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue. Trim PJ, Snel MF (2016) Small molecule MALDI MS imaging: current technologies and future challenges. Ĭapitoli P, Galimberti S et al (2019) MALDI-MSI as a complementary diagnostic tool in cytopathology: a pilot study for the characterization of thyroid nodules. Biochim Biophys Acta Proteins Proteom 1865:865–874. Smith A, L’Imperio V, Ajello E et al (2017) The putative role of MALDI-MSI in the study of membranous nephropathy.

UNIT by Andrew Smith