Identifying proteins that are only present in bodily fluids when a patient has breast cancer could provide a way to screen healthy people for the disease.
Nanoparticles (white disks) can be used to deliver treatment to cells (blue).
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The proteins that cover nanoparticles are essential to understanding how they work in the body. Across 17 proteomics facilities in the US, less than 2% of the identified proteins were identical.
Moms in Protoemics works to remove barriers so people can flourish and pave the way for the next generation of scientists to advance even further.
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Moms in Proteomics hopes to ensure a sustainable and productive international community of expertly trained scientists, coupled with the necessary resources and tools to balance motherhood.
Most children who catch COVID have mild illness and recover quickly. We identified key proteins in kids who’d had severe COVID with painful inflammation or respiratory failure.
Are space twin Scott and Earth twin Mark no longer identical?
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Before sending humans to Mars or the moon, scientists need to understand what long-term space living does to the human body. Now results are coming in from the Kelly brothers in the TWINS Study,
It’s a lot for a person to puzzle out… call in the computers!
Shaury Nash
Modern biological research relies on big data analytics. Vast reservoirs of memory and powerful computing ability mean machines find patterns and make meta-analyses and even predictions for scientists.
Proteins hold keys to making more effective medicine.
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The Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, mapping out all of the genes of the human genome. When the first draft of results were published many were surprised that we had only 24,000 genes. This…