February has been declared the gallbladder and bile duct cancer awareness month, but also features the international World Cancer Day. This year's theme was "United by Unique" and except for raising awareness of the disease it requested a worldwide cancer care that is focusing more on the individuals and not only on the disease...Read more

Detection of cancer is a challenging task, especially since many common diffuse symptoms overlap with non-malignant conditions. In an article in Nature Communications it was shown that plasma protein profiling can be used to identify cancer among patients with non-specific symptoms...Read more

Metastasis formation is a multistep process that involves cancer cell transmigration through tumor vessels and through the healthy vasculature of the affected organ. This process is limited by an intact vascular barrier formed by endothelial cells, ECM, and pericytes. In a publication in JCI Insight, researchers from HPA and Uppsala University studied the role of the protein CD93 in maintaining vascular integrity in metastatic cancers...Read more

In a publication in Cancers a comprehensive mass spectrometry strategy was used to profile blood plasma samples from a large pan-cancer cohort including 15 different cancer types. Differential expression analysis and machine learning was then used to identify a potential biomarker panel able to correctly diagnose multiple myeloma...Read more

An interview with the Director of the Human Protein Atlas was recently published online in Technology Networks by the editor Molly Campbell...Read more