Human Genome Sciences is developing a drug, Albuferon, a combination of the human protein albumin and interferon.
Dr. Vidal says about 20% of the project is finished, making it already the most complete map of the human protein network.
Human Genome Sciences (nasdaq: HGSI - news - people ) is developing a drug, Albuferon, a combination of the human protein albumin and interferon.
But as Matthew Herper observed back in June, Medtronic has received something of a black eye this year in connection with its promotion of a key product, recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2, (rhBMP-2) which is designed to speed healthy bone growth and fusion in patients with back pain.
They were looking for human myoglobin, a protein that is found in muscle tissue.
"Fish protein is the most healthy protein for human consumption, " says Polis.
The StarLink corn, however, contains a protein that human beings may not be able to digest and that some scientists fear may cause allergic reactions.
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Rhino horn is made of keratin, a tough protein found in human fingernails.
Scientists have for the first time created laser light using living biological material: a single human cell and some jellyfish protein.
That generic versions of high-tech protein drugs such as human growth hormone, insulin, or Amgen 's Epogen are likely to reach the market with any great speed.
That generic versions of high-tech protein drugs such as human growth hormone, insulin, or Amgen 's (nasdaq: AMGN - news - people ) Epogen are likely to reach the market with any great speed.
But gp120's innards are exposed for 30 minutes or so while the protein is hooked to its human receptor, called CD4, in preparation to invade a cell.
By contrast, the current estimate of the number of protein-coding genes in the human genome is 23, 000.
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The prion is a protein, thought to linger in human tissue, potentially for many years, before any symptoms begin to emerge.
But if the yeast's Golgi has different ideas from a human's about how to package that protein, the result may not work well as a drug.
The idea that this algae protein might be used to control human cells was obvious, but there were all sorts of reasons that it might not work.
By turning their problem into a game, the scientists have harnessed thousands of human brains without specialist knowledge to work on protein-folding, says Adrien Treuille, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University who helped to develop the program.
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Through further experiments in human cells and animal studies the researchers found that a protein called NF-kB lured zinc into the immune cells that responded fastest to fight infection.
Both Sugen and Genentech are rushing to conduct final-stage human testing of drugs that block the action of a key protein, called VEGF.
She said the judges will likely ask highly technical questions on Monday, to determine how much human ingenuity is required to cleave a gene, and whether the protein sequences named in the Myriad patents are truly works of nature.
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Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis looked at how a protein CUGBP2 interacted with the mRNA for Cox-2 in eight types of human cancer cells.
At the moment, laboratories are competing to work out the same protein structures, rather than collaborating in the way that they did to produce the human genome.
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