Illuminating protein networks in 1 step

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Sat, 01/23/2010 - 23:00

(University of Chicago Medical Center) A new assay capable of examining hundreds of proteins at once and enabling new experiments that could dramatically change our understanding of cancer and other diseases has been invented by a team of University of Chicago scientists.

Described today in the journal Nature Methods, the new micro-western arrays combine the specificity of the popular "Western blot" protein assay with the large scale of DNA microarrays.


 

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