One protein at a time
Children's Hospital Boston researchers are now using their new $2.6 million Proteomics Center to examine how proteins function in and around cells. Their work has the potential to yield big dividends in medicine, such as diagnosing genetic diseases in newborns and identifying proteins that are "markers" of various types of cancer and other diseases.
To help explain how proteins are sequenced and identified, Children's has created an interactive feature that takes you through the entire process, step by step. You can view the feature at www.childrenshospital.org/research/proteomics.
