Latest proteomics Stories

NORCROSS, Ga., April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- RayBiotech, Inc. today announced that it has formally launched a partnering program for select diagnostic core facilities at academic and government research institutes in the United States and Canada. Under the terms of the partnership program, core diagnostics facilities will be able to provide proprietary RayBiotech proteomic analysis services as a component of their current services offerings at no cost to the core facilities. These...

Biomarkers which could help to predict resistance to chemotherapy in breast cancer patients have been identified by researchers from the University of Hull, UK. The researchers found a family of proteins to be twice as prevalent in clinical samples obtained from breast cancer patients who were resistant to chemotherapy than those who were successfully treated. Chemotherapy resistance is a major problem for some types of breast cancer and many patients undergo treatment that does not...

SOMAscan technology identifies significant protein expression level differences in tumors vs. adjacent non-cancerous tissue, confirming known biomarkers and discovering new ones In a scientific paper published today in the journal PLoS ONE, researchers from SomaLogic and the University of Washington in Seattle describe the first application of the SOMAscanTM proteomic assay technology to tissue samples. Working with both tumor and non-cancerous lung samples from patients with non-small...

McGill team develops new technology that can accurately measure protein biomarkers One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime. The earlier cancer is detected, the better the chance of successful treatment and long-term survival. However, early cancer diagnosis is still challenging as testing by mammography remains cumbersome, costly, and in many cases, cancer can only be detected at an advanced stage. A team based in the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering at...

Physician-scientists from University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center's Seidman Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine presented new research findings in 24 presentations this week at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in Chicago, Illinois. "The breadth and depth of this innovative cancer research presented at AACR is truly outstanding," says Stan Gerson, MD, Director of the Seidman Cancer Center at UH Case Medical...

Researchers from the Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Gothenburg have managed for the first time to obtain detailed information about the role of the protein metastasin in the spread of tumor cells. Published recently in the renowned Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the study paves the way for the development of new drugs. Metastasin is a protein with a key role in the spread of tumor cells. Previous research has shown that it is...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ProteinSimple today announced that Terry Salyer has joined the team as Vice President of Sales. Terry brings over 20 years of experience selling and building highly effective sales teams in life sciences. Most recently, Terry was Vice President of Sales at ForteBio where she grew revenue to nearly $30 million over 4 years before successfully selling the business to Pall Corporation in 2012. Previously, Terry was VP of Worldwide...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ProteinSimple today introduced Sally as the next member of the revolutionary Simple Western product family. Sally eliminates a critical bottleneck in large-scale protein research and biopharmaceutical development - manual Western Blot analysis. With Sally, researchers can perform 96 Simple Westerns in a single automated experiment. For over 30 years, the Western Blot has been the most frequently used tool in protein research....

A new design triples efficiency of cyan fluorescent proteins Scientists have designed a molecule which, in living cells, emits turquoise light three times brighter than possible until recently. This improves the sensitivity of cellular imaging, a technique where biological processes inside a living organism are imaged at high resolution. The results have been published in Nature Communications on 20 March 2012. The lead author of the publication is Antoine Royant from the Institut de...

On March 22, during the 41st Annual Meeting & Exhibition of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR), held in conjunction with the 36th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Dental Research, a symposium titled "Challenges in Salivary Diagnostics" will take place to discuss the issues with saliva collection and storage, proteomic analyses, and the growing interest and availability of commercial tests for salivary biomarkers. Recently there has been a striking...