The genetic basis of brain diseases
Press Release,
Sanger Institute,
Dec 27, 2010
Networks within networks. As described by a NY Times article here, and in a Sanger Institute press release here, each of the brain's 100 trillion synapses, which are connections joining neurons together, are themselves networks composed of some 1,461 separate proteins. "From the synapses, the proteins were identified and as shown in the image, each protein can be represented as a point, and the lines show the connections between proteins. This shows how the many proteins in the PSD are connected in a network or roadmap. Many of these proteins are involved in human diseases and these are shown as 'stars' in the protein network map." The scientific publication, 'Characterization of the proteome, diseases and evolution of the human postsynaptic density,' was published in Nature on the 19th, and has not yet appeared in PubMed. Data from the research is freely available online here. Via @Cris2B.
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