Included is a paper on the use of a mass spectrometry-based strategy for the absolute quantification of protein complex components, one using SISCAPA technology, and one showing that top-down proteomics can be done using CID on a q-TOF instrument.
Both companies separately last week announced plans to expand the scope of their respective businesses in response to what they said is increased desire from customers to outsource their array production and array-based research projects.
In the first part of a two-part interview, Mann discusses the state of technology in proteomics and what still needs to get done for proteomics to cross to the clinical side.
Millipore is betting that the buy, which is expected to close in the next several weeks, will provide its customers a powerful cell biology/protein expression-analysis tool for the benchtop.
Discover magazine reports that animal dissections might dissuade students from science careers, but that a firm has developed synthetic frogs for dissections.
