Story Summary: Those include hepatitis and liver cancer, which is at epidemic levels in China and affects millions of people worldwide. Despite that key role, huge gaps likely exist in scientific knowledge about proteins involved in these activities. Using 10 tissue samples of healthy liver from volunteers, they identified 6,788 non-redundant proteins in the liver samples, the largest group of proteins ever identified by scientists in any human organ. Half of the proteins have never been seen in the human liver before. — full story– 16 August 2009Scientists at St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital have identified inherited variations in two genes that account for 37 percent of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), including. — full story– 15 July 2009An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of Schistosoma mansoni, a parasitic worm, commonly known as a blood fluke, that infects 210 million in 76 countries through….Read the Full Story

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