In proteomics study, Imaging Mass Spectrometry (IMS) is an emerging and very promising new technique for protein analysis from intact biological tissues. Though it has shown great potential and is very promising for rapid mapping of protein localization and the detection of sizeable differences in protein expression, challenges remain in data processing due to the difficulty of high dimensionality and the fact that the number of input variables in...

Natural immunity to breast and prostate cancers is predicted by a novel, saturated ordered mutation model fitted to USA (SEER) incidence data, a prediction consistent with the latest ideas in immunosurveillance. For example, the prevalence of natural immunity to breast cancer in the white female risk population is predicted to be 76.5%; this immunity may be genetic and, therefore, inherited. The modeling also predicts that 6.9% of White Females are...