{"id":203911,"date":"2025-01-17T01:04:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T07:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/game-changing-study-of-blood-proteins-will-help-fight-disease"},"modified":"2025-01-17T01:04:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T07:04:35","slug":"game-changing-study-of-blood-proteins-will-help-fight-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/game-changing-study-of-blood-proteins-will-help-fight-disease","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Game-changing\u2019 study of blood proteins will help fight disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/game-changing-study-of-blood-proteins-will-help-fight-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cProteins are the molecular machinery that helps the body to function \u2014 and malfunction. Their role in disease is crucial, but rarely simple. Knowing which are associated with a particular disease can help doctors and scientists to spot it earlier and narrow down potential treatments,\u201d writes Tom Whipple in The Times, as he describes the potential impact of a new study from UK Biobank that is the world\u2019s largest exploration of all the proteins in the human body.<\/p>\n<p>Thermo Fisher\u2019s Olink Proteomics Explore HT platform, which enables precise analysis of proteins in the human body, will play a key role in the work. Researchers will use our technology to study the role proteins play in many types of diseases. Their findings will fuel the discovery of new protein biomarkers that could predict, diagnose and treat diseases. The study \u201chas the potential to transform healthcare by the end of this decade,\u201d says Dr. Chris Whelan, who is leading a group of pharmaceutical companies working on the project.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u2018Treasure trove\u2019 of samples provided by UK volunteers has the potential to transform healthcare by the end of this decade, say scientists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cProteins are the molecular machinery that helps the body to function \u2014 and malfunction. Their role in disease is crucial, but rarely simple. Knowing which are associated with a particular disease can help doctors and scientists to spot it earlier and narrow down potential treatments,\u201d writes Tom Whipple in The Times, as he describes the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}