AstraZeneca is diving into the world of proteins secreted by cells - collectively known as the secretome - in the hunt for new drugs and better “cell factories” for making biotech medicines. The so-called secretome accounts for around one third of human proteins and the idea of mapping them all follows the decoding of the human genome in 2000, since when there has been a surge in scientific buzzwords ending in “ome”. The secretome is one of the newest as scientists only unraveled the full array of proteins involved at the start of this year. Read more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/article/us-astrazeneca-proteins-sweden-idUSKBN0TU0JY20151211#eci73mEi3wFEzScK.99
