Articles tagged with "Proteomics & Genomics"

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Driving precision medicine into frontline healthcare

August 16, 2021
Improved patient safety demands greater specificity to ensure therapeutic efficiency. Here, Tom Renn looks at some of the pioneering companies driving the precision medicine technologies that will support this level...

Glycoproteomics: a new era in biomarkers

August 6, 2021
Klaus Lindpaintner takes us on a journey of discovery, automation and scale-up that has applied AI to mass spectrometry data analysis to deliver a portfolio of glycoproteomic classifiers in more...

Fruit compound may have potential to prevent and treat Parkinson’s disease

August 2, 2021
Researchers have added to evidence that the compound farnesol, found naturally in herbs, and berries and other fruits, prevents and reverses brain damage linked to Parkinson's disease in mouse studies....

Are all mammals just copy cats? Felines to play a key role in human genetics

July 30, 2021
The feline genome is ordered similarly to humans according to one veterinary medicine expert. So, cats have the potential to be a valuable model organism for geneticists to help understand...

Gene variant discovery could help treat Alzheimer’s and other degenerative brain disorders

July 29, 2021
New research suggests early changes in brain metabolism may explain the neurodegeneration suffered by Alzheimer's patients. Discovery of a special gene variant, that causes astrocytes of the brain and exhausts...

One drug to treat them all: towards a ‘master’ coronavirus treatment

July 22, 2021
Researchers seek and find that precious drug-binding pocket that is so essential to the coronavirus protein function that it cannot be mutated, and therefore remains accessible across all strains. Using...

New report recommends antibody testing within the Covid-19 vaccination programme

July 8, 2021
Antibody testing can be used to identify the minority of people who have a sub-optimal response to Covid-19 vaccination, this is estimated to be up to 10 per cent of...

A CRISPECTOR calls with fresh insight to gene editing errors

July 5, 2021
An Israeli research team claims new software can detect unintended consequences of gene editing. Here, Dermot Martin unpacks the research that applies statistical modelling to determine and quantify editing activity....

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