As illustrated by Dr. Carl Borrebaeck, [4] of Lund University, Sweden, bioarrays may be based on proteins or on affinity reagents. Defined sets of proteins, such as autoantigens, are spotted on ...

Pancreatic cancer is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States with approximately 28,000 deaths/year. Notwithstanding all the efforts, it is still one of the most difficult cancers to ...

Wildlife biologist Marissa Irwin had no idea that cells in her body had gone haywire. In response to scrambled protein signaling pathways, certain cells turned cancerous and grew into tumors that took ...

Planar waveguide (PWG) technology (right) has the advantage over conventional epifluorescence excitation (left) for surface-confined assays in that only surface-bound fluorphores respond to the ...