The project to map the human proteins crossed the line a year earlier than planned. The rapid development of technology to sequence DNA gave tailwind.
The map of proteins in a healthy person would scheduled to arrive until the end of next year.
– We have had some luck. When we started in 2003 we had no idea of the rapid sequencing of DNA and analysis of mRNA that would be possible with the new Next-generation sequencing machines, says project manager Mathias Uhlén.
mRNA is the template that cells use to make proteins. By comparing the results of sequencing of a tissue with scientists’ technology to make the proteins visible with antibodies did it quickly to get tillförlitiga results.
– Overall, we have put 1000 man-years, of which 100 man-years in IT. There is a lot of technology and medicine, but also very much it.
But completely clear, scientists are not. The map presented tomorrow will be refined further. Then await the next step, a complete atlas of exactly where in the cell the proteins are. And four years is also an atlas of the proteins in different diseases be complete.
– My vision is that we are about ten years, able to go to the health center and take a blood test to see if we have a treatable disease, long before symptoms.
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