In recent months a bumper crop of genomes has been completed, including the fission yeast(Schizosaccharomyces pombe) and rice (Oryza sativa). Two large-scale studies ofSaccharomyces cerevisiaeprotein complexes provided a picture of the eukaryotic proteomeas a network of complexes. Amongst the other stories of interest was a demonstration thatproteomic analysis of blood samples can be used to detect ovarian cancer, perhaps even asearly as stage I.
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