POSTS TAGGED AS proteomics

Rapid Protein Screening

Rapid Screening Machine
Biochemists at Penn State have developed a method for rapid screening of proteins (even in living cells) that [MORE]

Protein Profile Blood Test for Cancer

Prof. Tao and Team Developed Blood Test for Cancer Proteins
The biomarkers that really matter in liquid biopsies are proteins, and [MORE]

A Blood Test for Parkinson’s Disease

Neurofilament Staining of Human Cerebellum
When body cells die their debris ends up in blood. So, it shouldn’t come as a [MORE]

330,000 Synthesized Peptides Represent Much of the Human Proteome

Proteome Tools Peptide Chart
A collaboration of German, American and Swiss scientists has created a proteomics structural database of more than [MORE]

DNA Methylation in Pediatric Bone Cancer

Ewing Sarcoma
A prevailing theory in cancers’ origins is that, over time, cells accumulate enough DNA damage that result in uncontrolled [MORE]

PTSD Brain Repository

Transcription Factors
Post-traumatic stress disorder, which afflicts about eight million Americans, appears to be a proteomic disease. DNA from these suffererss [MORE]

Therapeutic Angiogenesis via Autophagy

Yoshinori Ohsumi
Last month, Yoshinori Ohsumi won this year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries about the cellular [MORE]

Discrete Molecular Imaging From Wyss

Wyss Discrete Molecular Imaging
This is a follow up piece from a Tagline story on July 26 about the Wyss Institute’s [MORE]

Proteomics in Personalized Medicine

Proteomics in Personalized Medicine
The “inherent biological differences between individuals,”. . . “cannot all be explained genetically.” Calling the sum and [MORE]

Finding Ligands that Bind Better

Ligands
The Human Proteome is made up of about 20,000 proteins that act as enzymes, antibodies, transcription factors, signaling molecules, and [MORE]

Millennium Prize for “Directed Evolution”

Frances Arnold Receives Millennium Prize
In directed evolution, bioengineers subject a gene to repeated mutagenesis in order to create an array [MORE]

The Genetics Behind Prions

This piece is a touching story about young husband and wife researchers at the Broad Institute working on the genetics [MORE]

The Natural First Steroidal Alkaloid in Mammals Identified and It Acts as a Tumor Suppressor

DDA
In the interaction of cholesterol and histamine, investigators at the Cancer Research Center of the University of Toulouse, France, have [MORE]

Prospects for “Modular Vaccines”

Isopeptide Bonds
Virus-like particles are self-assembling multiprotein structures that mimic viruses. They actually could be useful as “modular vaccines” if it [MORE]