Scientific Misconduct Casts Doubt on Basis for a Stem Cell Clinical Trial

pausing_clinical_trial_heart_failure

You may have read the commentary “Stem Cells Repair Injured Hearts” and then heard about the National Institutes of Health (NIH) decision to suspend a clinical trial using stem cells to treat heart failure due to oxygen deprivation, as occurs in a heart attack. The work highlighted in the commentary is by different authors and … Read more

Proteomic Analysis Leads to Insights into Heart Failure

dilated_cardiomyopathy

Although mass spectrometry-based proteomic analysis is particularly useful for performing global proteomic analysis, this technique can also be used in a more targeted manner. For example, mass spectrometry-based proteomic analysis can be combined with immunoprecipitation to reveal the proteins that interact with the immunoprecipitated protein. Quick and colleagues (1) used coimmunoprecipitation followed by mass spectrometric … Read more