News ArticlesBreast Cancer Awareness MonthThis month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a global effort to promote awareness and support education and research about breast cancer...Read more Antibody ValidationThere is a need for standardized validation methods for antibody specificity and selectivity. A recent article published in Nature Communications by Edfors et al. shows that the five pillars proposed by the International Working Group for Antibody Validation (IWGAV) can be used to validate antibodies for Western Blot applications in a standardized and systematic manner...Read more Human Protein Atlas Image ClassificationThe Human Protein Atlas Image Classification calls on participants to train machine learning models to classify the patterns of protein expression within images of human cells. The team behind the Cell Atlas of the Human Protein Atlas has opened up an online machine learning competition...Read more TH, DBH and PNMT play pivotal roles in catecholamine production in the adrenal medullaLocated on top of the kidneys like two tiny caps, the adrenal glands play a fundamental role in the endocrine system. We have previously described the human adrenal gland proteome and now it is time to shed light on proteins specific for the medullary compartment of the adrenal gland. These proteins are essential for the synthesis of two major stress coping hormones - adrenaline and noradrenaline...Read more |