Diseases molecular uniqueness

Variable numbers of randomly repeated (VNTR) units are one common type of insertion that results in an RFLP. The VNTRs can be inherited, in which case they are useful in estabhshing genetic association with a disease in a family or kindred or they can be unique to an individual and thus serve as a molecular fingerprint of that person. 

The unique power of synthesis is the ability to create new molecules and materials with valuable properties. This capacity can be used to interact with the natural world, as in the treatment of disease or the production of food, but it can also produce compounds and materials beyond the capacity of living systems. Our present world uses vast amounts of synthetic polymers, mainly derived from petroleum by synthesis. The development of nanotechnology, which envisions the application of properties at the molecular level to catalysis, energy transfer, and information management has focused attention on multimolecular arrays and systems capable of self-assembly. We can expect that in the future synthesis will bring into existence new substances with unique properties that will have impacts as profound as those resulting from syntheses of therapeutics and polymeric materials. 

High-throughput proteomic methods hold great promise for the discovery of novel protein biomarkers that can be translated into practical interventions for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. These approaches may also facilitate the development of therapeutic agents that are targeted to specific molecular alterations in diseases such as cancer. In many cases, malignant cells yield unique protein profiles when total protein extracts from such cells are analyzed by 2-D gel electrophoresis or mass spectrometry (MS) methods. Such proteomic studies have the potential to provide an important complement to the analysis of DNA and mRNA extracts from these tissues.1... 

A number of NO-derived reactive species can initiate lipid peroxidation, including nitrogen dioxide and, most notably, ONOO , which displays unique properties as a mediator of lipid oxidation. On a molecular basis, ONOO is a more potent lipid oxidant than hydrogen peroxide and, unlike H2O2, it does not require metal catalysis. The one-electron oxidants such as metals, as well as heme proteins and peroxynitrite, are assumed to play an important role in many diseases associated with oxidative stress. Heme proteins such as horseradish peroxidase (HRP) can produce alkylperoxyl radicals through two sequential... 

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