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Chemistry & Industry - 17 June Issue
NEWS Rapid diagnosis while you wait (page 6) A device that can diagnose breast cancer within minutes is being developed by scientists at the University of Dundee, UK. Ear cartilage offers cancer hope (page 7) Replacement testicles that can deliver testosterone for several months have been made from... view more (2002-06-12)

spectroscopyNOW.com - New Proteomics and MRI Channels Launched
spectroscopyNOW.com, the first dedicated spectroscopy portal, is rapidly growing to meet the needs of the constantly expanding field of spectroscopy research. This month two new channels are launched extending the breadth of information provided by this indispensable landmark resource.   view more (2002-02-13)

Candidate markers for gastric cancer
The sequencing of the human genome has opened the door for proteomics by providing a sequence-based framework for mining proteomes.   view more (2008-10-29)

£11.5m for new structural proteomics research programmes
BBSRC has announced two new research programmes that together will receive £11.5m under the Structural Proteomics of Rational Targets Initiative (SPoRT). The Membrane Protein Structure Initiative (MPSI), a consortium of experienced membrane research groups at universities and institutes... view more (2004-06-17)

New Proteome Research Centre Opens in Dublin
The official launch of the Conway Institute Proteome Research Centre will take place on June 3rd and 4th 2004. The opening symposium to mark the occasion has attracted scientific luminaries from the world of protein research. The new challenge in biomedical science since the completion of the... view more (2004-06-01)

New technique can be breakthrough for early cancer diagnosis
Early detection of disease is often critical to how successful treatment can be. Therefore, the development of new methods of diagnosis is a hot research field, where every small step is of great importance. In an article in the latest issue of Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, Uppsala... view more (2007-09-12)

Proteomics Center Devises Method for Assigning Probabilities to Human Protein Interactions
The Stowers Institute's Proteomics Center has published a novel method of using normalized spectral counts derived from a series of affinity purifications analyzed by mass spectrometry (APMS) to generate a probabilistic measure of the preference of proteins to associate with one another.   view more (2008-01-25)

Protein marker for schizophrenia risk
A protein found in immune cells may be a reliable marker for schizophrenia risk, report researchers in a new proteomics study appearing in the July issue of Molecular and Cellular proteomics.    view more (2008-07-09)

Leeds awarded £2.3m to map protein structure
The University of Leeds has been awarded £2.3m to map the structure of membrane proteins, so that drugs can be designed to more effectively target widespread diseases including diabetes, cancer and bacterial infections. The funds were awarded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences... view more (2004-04-17)

Proteins in sperm unlock understanding of male infertility says new study
Proteins found in sperm are central to understanding male infertility and could be used to determine new diagnostic methods and fertility treatments according to a paper published by the journal Molecular and Cellular Proteomics (MCP).   view more (2008-10-09)

200 proteins which detect diseases of the liver
The biochemist Enrique Santamaría Martínez, a researcher in the area of Genetic Therapy and Hepatology at the CIMA of the University of Navarra, has identified more than 200 proteins which can be considered as indicators of the progression of steatohepatitis and liver... view more (2005-12-14)

Lab-on-a-Chip Device from Berkeley Lab to Speed Proteomics Research
In recent years, the science of biology has been dominated by genomics - the study of genes and their functions. The genomics era is now making way for the era of proteomics - the study of the proteins that genes encode.   view more (2007-05-03)

Minimum information standards -- all for 1 and 1 for all
Three papers published by EMBL scientists and their collaborators will make it much easier to share and compare information from large-scale proteomics data. The papers are published in Nature Biotechnology on 8th and 26th August.   view more (2007-08-27)

Saliva proteins could help detection of oral cancer
Clinicians could detect oral squamous cell carcinoma, a form of oral cancer, using a simple test that detects proteins in saliva, according to a report in the October 1, 2008, issue of Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.   view more (2008-10-01)

An infectious agent of deception, exposed through proteomics
Salmonella bacteria, infamous for food poisoning that kills hundreds of thousands worldwide, infect by stealth.   view more (2006-09-29)

Human Proteinpedia, a portal to share human protein data among the scientific community
Today, scientists have access to a large amount of biological information through the Internet. Nevertheless, these databases do not always have the endorsement of experimental evidence, and are usually distributed in several web locations, a fact that makes information retrieval difficult to... view more (2008-03-17)

Peakadilly nv biopharmaceutical firm created
The Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) and Ghent University have started up a new biopharmaceutical company named Peakadilly nv. Peakadilly will develop and market a new generation of molecular diagnostics - so-called protein bio-markers - using innovative proteomics... view more (2004-10-18)

Chemistry & Industry Magazine Issue 2
NEWS   view more (2003-01-16)

Role for proteomics in identifying hematologic malignancies
Scientists have identified a set of biomarkers that could help clinicians identify a group of hematologic malignancies known as myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), which affect approximately 300,000 individuals worldwide and often progress to acute myeloid leukemia.   view more (2007-01-11)

Bacteria reveal secret of adaptation at Evolution Canyon
Bacteria living on opposite sides of a canyon have evolved to cope with different temperatures by altering the make-up of their 'skin', or cell membranes. Scientists have found that bacteria change these complex and important structures to adapt to different temperatures by looking at the... view more (2008-07-28)

Faster method to create antibodies for disease research
Faster method to create antibodies for disease research British scientists are pioneering a new technique to produce large numbers of antibodies quickly and reliably to help the study of dangerous bacteria.   view more (2005-10-07)

Getting to grips with the complexity of disease proteins
Drug molecules seldom act simply on one protein but on protein complexes and networks. A deeper understanding of these 'cooperative assemblies' should lead to better targeting of drugs.   view more (2008-10-21)

LGC awarded £2m in contracts for DTI`s Measurements for Biotechnology (MfB) programme
LGC, the UK`s leading independent analytical laboratory providing chemical, biochemical and DNA analysis, has won over £2m funding in a series of eight DTI contracts spanning five themes of the Measurements for Biotechnology (MfB) programme. The two largest contracts - for improving the... view more (2002-08-01)

Protein expression holds promise for head and neck cancer detection
The blood of patients with head and neck cancer appears to have unique patterns of protein expression that one day could serve as a screening test for the highly aggressive cancer that is often diagnosed too late, researchers say.   view more (2006-05-11)

A protein interaction map for a better insight in cancer development
With the completion of the genome sequence of a number of organisms, analysis of the gene products, the proteins, is the on-going challenge.   view more (2005-02-28)

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