Making the cut: untangling clinical protein biomarker discovery and validation.

189 ISSN 1752-0363 10.2217/BMM.11.11 © 2011 Future Medicine Ltd Biomarkers Med. (2011) 5(2), 189–191 “...naive as it may sound, we believe that the unbiased, large-scale approach enabled by our SOMAmer technology offers tremendous potential for the rapid identification and validation of clinically useful biomarkers across a range of diseases.” Larry Gold†1, Stephen Williams1, Nebojsa Janjic1, Nick Saccomano1 & Fintan Steele1,2

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