New Instrument Can Quickly Examine Multiple Proteins In A Single...

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Thu, 09/25/2008 - 00:00

Researchers have demonstrated a new instrument that makes it possible to detect and quantify multiple different clinically important proteins in a single tumor sample using conventional staining.

Currently, pathologists usually need a separate tissue slice for each protein they want to examine, making it impossible to see how molecules interact within individual cells.

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