POSTS TAGGED AS proteomics

Proteomics of Aging

Clinical lab mass spectometry
“Might medical laboratories someday use proteomic biomarkers to help physicians gauge the aging progression in patients? Might [MORE]

Proteomics of Aging

Zombie cells
Even if extending life expectancy doesn’t require our willing suspension of disbelief, figuring out the molecular biology of aging [MORE]

Optical Sensor Detects Cancer Cells in Urine

Detecting cancer cells in urine
In searching for a protein associated with human tumor progression, researchers at the University of Twente [MORE]

Need to Automate Mass Spectrometry for Clinical Use

Mass Spectrometry Quantitative Proteomic Workflows
Mass spectroscopy is a technology for determining, among other things, the size and weight of protein [MORE]

20 Year Forecast for Synthetic Biology

Synthetic biology
The Engineering Biology Research Consortium is “futurist-minded” about synthetic biology, with funding from the National Science Foundation and the [MORE]

Proteomics’ Major Challenges

The evolution of proteomics
In a series of interviews with leading proteomic researchers, five key challenges surfaced as barriers to making [MORE]

Skin Test for Prion Disease

Mad cow disease
The “Mad Cow Epidemic,” starting in 1986, and the first confirmed US death from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in 1988, [MORE]

Predictive Protein Profile of Alzheimer’s Disease

Protein changes in blood forecasts Alzheimers
This may be your father’s NFL or your mother’s, though in this case NfL refers [MORE]

Protein-Centered Diagnostics

Flowchart of proteomics
This piece has a half-truth—i.e. that the diseases of aging, like Alzheimer’s and T2 diabetes, arise from aberrant [MORE]

Metabolic Profiling for Prostate Cancer

Prostate Cancer
Elevated levels of prostate specific antigen followed by prostate biopsies have long been the standard for determining prostate cancer, [MORE]

Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectroscopy

Mass Spectrometer
The technology discussed in this piece—capillary electrophoresis-mass spectroscopy—isn’t new. Richard Smith, renowned chemist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory [MORE]

“Epigenetic Signatures”

Epigenetics
Kabuki syndrome is a rare inborn developmental disorder in children, with distinctive facial features, growth delays and other abnormalities. Yet [MORE]

Metabolomics in Personalized Medicine

Metabolomics
“You have tens of thousands of genes, of which tens of thousands will be expressed – and you also have [MORE]

Engineered Human Colon Organoids

Colon
In mice studies, researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital have begun to reveal the cellular signals that give rise to the [MORE]