News tagged with human proteome


New high-throughput screening technique makes probing puzzling proteins possible

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Understanding the tens of thousands of proteins that compose the human proteome has emerged as a key challenge of this century, and research efforts to date have already enabled major advances in drug discovery and understanding ...





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Largest-ever database for liver proteins may lead to treatments for hepatitis

Largest-ever database for liver proteins may lead to treatments for hepatitis

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists at a group of 11 research centers in China are reporting for the first time assembly of the largest-ever collection of data about the proteins produced by genes in a single human organ.


Scientists develop method for comprehensive proteome analysis

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have deciphered a large percentage of the total protein complement (proteome) in Schizosaccharomyces pombe (S. pombe) fission yeast.


Solving the mystery of how plants survive near Chernobyl

Solving the mystery of how plants survive near Chernobyl

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (15) | comments 2

Twenty-two years after the Chernobyl nuclear power station accident in the Ukraine — the worst in history — scientists are reporting insights into the mystery of how plants have managed to adapt and survive ...


Saliva proteins change as women age

Saliva proteins change as women age

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In a step toward using human saliva to tell whether those stiff joints, memory lapses, and other telltale signs of aging are normal or red flags for disease, scientists are describing how the protein content ...


An inner 'fingerprint' for personalizing medical care

An inner 'fingerprint' for personalizing medical care

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fingerprints move over. Scientists are reporting evidence that people have another defining trait that may distinguish each of the 6.7 billion humans on Earth from one another almost as surely as the arches, ...


'Magic potion' in fly spit may shoo away blinding eye disease

'Magic potion' in fly spit may shoo away blinding eye disease

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers are reporting the first identification of a "magic potion" of proteins in the saliva of the black fly that help this blood-sucking pest spread parasites that cause "river blindness," a devastating ...


Salivary diagnostics, the 'magic mirror' to your health ... at your personal computer

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 06, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Accuracy, convenience, and non-invasiveness are the most critical characteristics for any diagnostic tool. A new concept, Salivaomics Knowledge Base (SKB), an in silico (i.e., performed on computer or via computer simulation) ...


Net widens as more proteins implicated in cancer spread

Net widens as more proteins implicated in cancer spread

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 02, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Authorities are on the lookout for 64 proteins believed to have been talking to well-known cancer kingpin urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (a.k.a uPAR).


The biochemical buzz on career changes in bees

The biochemical buzz on career changes in bees

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Adults facing unexpected career changes, take note. Scientists from Brazil and Cuba are reporting that honey bees — a mainstay for behavioral research that cannot be done in other animals — change their brains ...


New evidence that dark chocolate helps ease emotional stress

New evidence that dark chocolate helps ease emotional stress

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 2

The "chocolate cure" for emotional stress is getting new support from a clinical trial published online in ACS' Journal of Proteome Research.



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