Largest-ever database for liver proteins may lead to treatments for hepatitis
Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 03:56
in Health & Medicine
Scientists at a group of 11 research centres in China are reporting for the first time assembly of the largest-ever collection of data about the proteins produced by genes in a single human organ. Their focus was the liver, and their massive database in both protein and transcript levels could become a roadmap for finding possible new biomarkers and treatments for liver disease. Those include hepatitis and liver cancer, which is at epidemic levels in China and affects millions of people worldwide. Part of the China Human Liver Proteome Project, which was officially launched by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MOST) and chaired by Fuchu He, the study appears online in ACS' Journal of Proteome Research...