Human protein atlas will help pinpoint disease

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Thu, 10/16/2008 - 22:00

(European Science Foundation) Researchers in Sweden are compiling a remarkable "atlas" that pinpoints the location of thousands of individual proteins in the body's tissues and cells which will give scientists important insights into the function of different proteins and how changes in the distribution of proteins could be reflected in diseases such as cancer.

Professor Mathias Uhlén of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, who is leading the project, said, "We are trying to map the building blocks of life."

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