This international conference was the result of collaboration between the food industry and academics from both sides of the Atlantic. TNO Nutrition and Food Research of the Netherlands were, however, the driving force that organized the conference in Amsterdam. Nutrigenomics is the use of high throughput genomics tools based on the polymerase chain reaction (especially microarray DNA chips) in nutrition research. The conference drew together scientists from all over the world who are making contributions to this rapidly moving branch of scientific research. Over the last 3 years, research papers and books about gene-nutrient interactions and nutrigenomics have increased from a trickle to a substantial flow of new knowledge. This knowledge looks likely to change the way nutritional medicine is practised in the future, putting the emphasis on 'personalized medicine', which aims to treat individuals according to their individual genetic profile, taking into account gene-nutrient interactions that differ from person to person.
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