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The Chief Executive of the Australian Research Council, Professor Peter Hoj, recently opened a new Mass Spectrometry Facility at the Research School of Biological Sciences.
The $2.5 million spectrometry facility will be used by research groups in the biological and biomedical sciences.
The Mass Spectrometry Facility will allow researchers to identify protein and peptide signals that regulate growth and development, and identify gene function and gene mutations in all living things.
“We have seen the description of the human ‘genome’, our genetic code. Now our challenge is to describe the transcriptome — the total set of messages coded by the genome," Professor Barry Rolfe, the driving force behind the establishment of the facility, said.
“These messages are the building blocks of living tissue and mass spectrometry is the most powerful tool we have for understanding them. The techniques also underpin the development of more and more specifically constructed drugs.”
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