Portuguese researchers have developed a new method, which quantifies for the first time a protein distribution (how much there is, and where in the cell) in a population of cells. The discovery has important medical implications since the cellular location of a protein is directly linked to its function, as proved when the new method identify mutations that cause human diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC). This result is particularly important because HDGC is asymptomatic and, at the moment, its early detection is not reliable poor what means that the disease has extremely high mortality. The new algorithm with its ability to identify patients at high risk, hopefully, will change that.
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Fuente : http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=1...