POSTS TAGGED AS proteomics

“Hormone Fingerprints” for Cancer

Adrenal gland cancer is relatively rare, but often deadly because it usually has spread before detection.  Moreover, today’s tests [MORE]

Room Temp Tissue Fixative

The cost of holding tissue in a frozen state is a major barrier to clinical biorepositories building their specimen [MORE]

Biomarker for Earlier Detection of Ovarian Cancer

Epidemiologists have long suspected a link between infertility and ovarian cancer, and researchers at Rush University Medical Center may [MORE]

Proteomic Analysis of Bone Matrix

Using laser capture micro-dissection and mass spectroscopy, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have been able to determine the proteomic “signatures [MORE]

A New Twist on the Biochemistry of Alzheimer’s Disease

For many years, neuroscientists have focused on the role amyloid beta plays in the plaques and tangles of neurons [MORE]

Microarrays for Autoimmune Diagnosis

Researchers at Sweden’s Lund University recently reported on their use of protein microarrays to differentiate systemic lupus erythematosis from [MORE]

Aging vs. Immortality

If cancer cells represent a kind of immortality (having lost their inability to die naturally), then it is not [MORE]

Illumina’s Distributed Genomics Network

This past summer, life sciences instrument maker Illumina, Inc. (San Diego, CA) announced its founding of a collaboration [MORE]

A Really Smart Biosensor Chip

Protein scientists in Germany and Japan have developed a new biochip that can detect proteins for specific diseases and [MORE]

Methylome: Another “ome” to the Rescue

In the end, all cancers have protein features, which may not be traced to genes or gene expression patterns.  Post [MORE]

Acoustic Cell Sorting

Labcyte, Inc (Sunnyvale, CA)—a company that pioneered acoustic methods for transferring liquids from pico to nanoliter containers—has  now developed an [MORE]

Deciphering the Human Interactome

If you put genomics, proetomics, metabolics, etc together, you’d have the “interactome” (i.e. the interaction of all the “omes”). By [MORE]

Alkon Develops Skin Test for Alzheimer’s

Daniel Alkon and colleagues at the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute in Morgantown, WV have developed a proteomic skin test that [MORE]

Stopping Protein Degradation in Samples

Denator AB (Gothenburg, Sweden) has licensed its protein stabilizer equipment to Harvard’s core proteomics laboratory for innovative translational technologies.  Denator’s [MORE]