News tagged with metabolomics


Case Western Reserve researchers' new pathway discovery published as 'Paper of the Week'

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created 15 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Case Western Reserve University researchers, from the School of Medicine's Department of Nutrition, discovered two new metabolic pathways by which products of lipid peroxidation and some drugs of abuse, known as 4-hydroxyacids, ...


An easy way to find a needle in a haystack by removing the haystack

An easy way to find a needle in a haystack by removing the haystack

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena and their colleagues from the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague have developed a new method to quickly and reliably detect metabolites, ...





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Does probiotic intervention induce the serum global lipid profile change?

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 18, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The new global metabolic profiling techniques, like lipidomics as a branch of metabolomics, have made it possible to measure large numbers of different metabolites, and are currently being applied to increase our understanding ...


Study identifies genetic variants giving rise to differences in metabolism

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 28, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Common genetic polymorphisms induce major differentiations in the metabolic make-up of the human population, according to a paper published November 28 in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics. An international team of res ...


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Bacteria in urinary tract infections caught making burglar's tools

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 20, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Bacteria that cause urinary tract infections (UTIs) make more tools for stealing from their host than friendly versions of the same bacteria found in the gut, researchers at Washington University School of ...


Molecular changes in brain fluid give insight into brain-damaging disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 02, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Soon after an individual becomes infected with HIV the virus infects cells in the brain and spinal cord (the central nervous system [CNS]). Although this causes no immediate problems, during the late-stages of disease it ...


Discovery of the Jekyll-and-Hyde factors in 'coral bleaching'

Discovery of the Jekyll-and-Hyde factors in 'coral bleaching'

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists are reporting the first identification of substances involved in the Jekyll-and-Hyde transformation that changes harmless marine bacteria into killers that cause "coral bleaching." Their study appears ...


New research promises personalized dietary guidelines

Chemistry /

created Dec 10, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Better diets for fighting diabetes, obesity and heart disease may soon be only a finger-prick away. By analyzing the unique metabolic changes in an individual’s body, researchers hope to develop more personalized dietary ...


New scientific knowledge on juvenile diabetes

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 17, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Finnish scientists have reported a breakthrough in the attempts to understand the development of type 1 diabetes. They discovered disturbances in lipid and amino acid metabolism in children who later progressed to type 1 ...


Powerful integration of lipid metabolic profiling with gene expression analysis

Biology /

created Nov 05, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A recently published research article in the Journal of Proteome Research, authored by researchers from the Nestlé Reserarch Center, Genomatix Software GmbH, Rosetta Inpharmatics LLC, CXR Biosciences Ltd, the Cancer Resear ...


Identifying the Metabolism of a Healthy Embryo Could Improve Infertility Treatment

Identifying the Metabolism of a Healthy Embryo Could Improve Infertility Treatment

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Embryos that are most likely to result in a pregnancy are crucial to the success of in vitro fertilization (IVF) but are difficult to identify. Researchers at Yale School of Medicine, led ...


Existing anti-obesity drugs may be effective against flu, hepatitis and HIV

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created Sep 28, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 0

Viruses dramatically increase cellular metabolism, and existing anti-obesity drugs may represent a new way to block these metabolic changes and inhibit viral infection, according to a study published today in the journal ...



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