Infectious Disease
Diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, parasites, or any type of pathogen
Worth a Closer Look: April 2019
As I was selecting the articles related to proteomics and disease, I kept a running list of those that piqued my interest. These range in topic and are not all related to proteomics. Most are related to medicine or human disease. Hopefully, I will have time to take a closer look at them all and … Read more
Worth a Closer Look: March 2019
The following papers piqued my interest this week. Hopefully, I will have time to take a closer look at them all and decide which ones warrant a thumbs up and which ones a thumbs down. Some I found through my Biomed News search of the proteomics and disease list, some through social media, and some … Read more
A Closer Look: Microbes and Microbiomes
Summaries of recent articles related to human pathogenic and commensal microbes
Bacterial Chaperone Protein Causes Cancer
In a study of infection by bacteria of the mycoplasma family, researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have discovered that the bacterial protein DnaK triggers a cascade of events that can cause infected cells and nearby uninfected cells to become cancerous. DnaK is a prokaryotic stress-induced protein (Figure 1) that is a … Read more