The focus should be on thinking, framing, and organization. Communicating a significant new scientific result is a highly intellectual process with many subtleties.
Proteomics is rocketing
A typical human cell contains billions of protein molecules ranging in abundance from low copy numbers to millions of copies. This vast scale of the proteome poses major challenges for any method aiming for comprehensive protein analysis. It is a fundamental reason why proteomics is challenging. Despite the challenges, our ability to quantify proteins from … Continue reading Proteomics is rocketing
The proteome scale
How big is the human proteome? This apparently simple question can have numerous answers depending on the measure of size. For some measures, we cannot provide a clear response. For example, if we are interested in the number of molecularly distinct protein molecules present in human cells, the number remains imprecise. This is because the … Continue reading The proteome scale
Peer review works
I cannot read it and agree with claims that peer review “is broken” and does not work. Such claims are at best oversimplifying the problems and selectively excluding evidence.
Why do a PhD?
Is doing a PhD worthwhile? Why do a PhD? These questions might appear simple, and yet they may have many answers depending on our goals and motivations. Here, I will share what I find worthwhile in pursuing a PhD, what motivated me almost 20 years ago to perform PhD research. I always thought of doctoral … Continue reading Why do a PhD?
Guidelines for single-cell proteomic experiments
Henry Ford remarked that coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. Working together is also more fun. Thus, from the very beginning, we sought to help colleagues adopt and use single-cell proteomic methodologies that our laboratory developed, and to do so following best practices To develop and disseminate … Continue reading Guidelines for single-cell proteomic experiments
Adsorption losses during single-cell proteomics
Proteins are wonderfully diverse! Their physicochemical diversity is essential to animating life, to performing the myriad functions necessary to process energy, nutrients and information in living systems. The physicochemical diversity of proteins also poses challenges to proteomic analysis. Different amino acid sequences can adsorb to various surfaces, thus resulting in losses, reduced sensitivity and even … Continue reading Adsorption losses during single-cell proteomics
Framework for increasing proteomics throughput
Simultaneously achieving achieving deep proteome coverage, high data completeness, high throughput, and high sensitivity has been a long standing challenge in the field of proteomics. This challenge is particularly evident and relevant to single-cell proteomics, which has the potential to enable mechanistic investigations of key biological questions, such as signaling mechanisms based on protein binding, modifications, and … Continue reading Framework for increasing proteomics throughput
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Accessible single-cell proteomics
This aim for a “model T” single-cell proteomics has been our guiding philosophy in the development of methods for single-cell proteomics.
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