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German Scientists to Lead World Brain Protein Project, FAZ Says July 8 (Bloomberg) -- German scientists will lead an international project to identify and list the proteins in the human brain, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported, citing scientists Joachim Klose and Helmut Meyer. The Human Brain Proteome Project, part of an international project to decode all human proteins, may hold the keys to treating Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and strokes, the German daily newspaper said. Klose, of the Institute for Human Genetics at the Berlin Virchow Clinic, and Meyer, who leads the Medical Proteome Center at Bochum University, expect to map about 12,000 brain proteins, the paper said. Their research is part of the Human Proteome Organization linking 125 research groups around the world. ``We're standing there like Darwin, as he looked at the huge world of organisms and couldn't recognize any order,'' Klose told the paper. ``He who understands what proteins do, will know what's really going on.'' (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 7-8 1, 42) Last Updated: July 8, 2003 04:24 EDT SOURCE: Bloomberg http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000100&sid=a5eOUIxcluhU&refer=germany# Reference: The Human Brain Proteome Project http://www.hbpp.org/5925.html?*session*id*key*=*session*id*val* The Human Brain Proteome Project http://www.rzpd.de/ngfn/poster/proteomics/63meyer.html Kick-off meeting of the Human Brain Proteome Project http://www.bioportfolio.com/news/biocom_10.htm * * * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn