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Taking Measure

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Ben Neely

Ben Neely has been with the Marine Biochemical Sciences group at NIST Charleston in the Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, South Carolina, for 2.5 years. He has been using mass spectrometry-based proteomics for the last decade to discover candidate biomarkers related to disease and cancer progression in humans and marine mammals. In addition to helping develop new reference materials and standardized methods, Ben spends his time delving into emerging proteomic techniques such as data-independent acquisition and metaproteomics.

Blood, Sweat and Genomes: A Quest to Advance Measurement Science in Non-Model Organisms

February 12, 2019

There are currently about 5,400 different species of mammals on Earth, but this wasn’t the case until about 56 million years ago. As non-avian dinosaurs faded

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