Blood proteins articles within Nature

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• Article | 01 July 2020

  Physiological blood–brain transport is impaired with age by a shift in transcytosis

  Tagging and tracking the blood plasma proteome as a discovery tool reveals widespread endogenous transport of proteins into the healthy brain and the pharmacologically modifiable mechanisms by which the brain endothelium regulates this process with age.

  • Andrew C. Yang
  • , Marc Y. Stevens
  •  & Tony Wyss-Coray

• News | 31 October 2011

  Rice seed yields blood protein

  Human serum albumin from transgenic rice could ease shortages of donated blood.

  • Lauren Gravitz

• News & Views | 24 February 2010

  A brake on lipid synthesis

  Although sphingolipids are vital cellular components, the path to their production is paved with toxic intermediates. Orm proteins allow cells to form these lipids without killing themselves in the process.

  • Fikadu G. Tafesse
  •  & Joost C. M. Holthuis