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Thread: Could the Human Proteome Folding Project Help Scientists Use This Harvard Data |
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Former Member
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Hello Dr Bonneau
I read today that Harvard is making a library of proteomes involving in breast cancer publicly available. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/02/060213101024.htm I was wondering if the HPF project could in someway make this data more usable (also, I might be able to recruit some people if this is the case). Take care, Christine MH |
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jojorules
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That is very exciting news and I can't wait to see what Dr. Bonneau says. Keep your fingers crossed!
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Dr. Bonneau has said that HPF2 will concentrate on malaria, human secreted proteins and cancer biomarkers. I don't know where he is getting the cancer biomarkers from.
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?fee...0-bc-us-cancerprotein.xml
Study: Protein might help fight cancer "Our data suggested that if we could find a way to phosphorylate K-Ras, we might be able to promote programmed cell death in tumors driven by the ras oncogene," he said. "This is a new way of thinking about treating tumors that are K-Ras dependent. |
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Wow! I hope it helps. You think they could do the same thing with, I don't know, Diabetes? My uncle died of Diabetes
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