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The milestone article will trace the controversial discovery of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and the subsequent purification, characterization, and clinical use of PSA as a biomarker blood test for prostate cancer.
Over the past five decades, scientists have figured out ways to control the disease-fueling growth of blood vessels in the body.
Researchers continuously push the boundaries of what’s possible with protein analysis tools.
Milestones
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In a journey fraught with heartache and persistence, medical research giants paved the way for successful bone marrow transplantation.
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Since their discovery in the 1890s, viruses have intrigued scientists as potential cancer-killing agents.
Interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation propelled transformative advancements in single cell proteomic analysis.
Gene therapy has a complicated history, marked by many ups and downs and crafted by ever-advancing technologies.
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In the 1930s, HPV
wasn’t on the radar for most scientists.Four decades passed before anyone connected
HPV with cervical, penile, or anal cancer, and it took even longer before scientists
developed a prophylactic vaccine.
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The discovery of insulin and its role in diabetes began with extracting canine pancreatic secretions and culminated in the first artificial pancreas in 2016.
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Transgenic mice play pivotal roles in scientific and therapeutic discovery, but how did they become a staple model system?
Seventy years of scientific advancements led to a 10,000-fold improvement in protein detection sensitivity and the possibility of early disease diagnosis.
Herceptin transformed breast cancer treatment and opened the door to targeted therapy.
