He's also put venture money into natural gas-to-fuels play Siluria, and diagnostics firm Applied Proteomics.

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Protein catalogue work from IBM ally MDS Proteomics calls for a look at both itself and competitor Myriad.

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The centre will integrate expertise in cell biology, mass spectrometry, proteomics, "big-data" analytics, drug discovery and computer science to exploit the potential of the human genome project for healthcare and the development of safer drugs.

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The technology is being used by Myriad Proteomics , a joint venture with Hitachi and Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ), to try to map the millions of proteins found in the human body.

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But Berkshire, England-based Celltech is thinly traded and little talked about in the U.S. Lately, it has mostly made it into the press because of a bidding war with Cambridge Antibody Technology (nasdaq: CATG - news - people ) for proteomics pioneer Oxford Glycosciences.

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In a paper published this month in the journal Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, Buchholz, Spalding and their colleagues showed that after examining 44 teeth from 41 people they could determine ages within about two years--far better than more common methods like looking at patterns of wear and the changes that proteins in the teeth undergo as people age.

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