This new book by our Editorial Advisory Board member Carolyn Berdanier, PhD, and her colleague Naima Moustaid-Moussa, PhD, is one of the best of the new offerings on the "-omics" that we hear so much about today. The book describes the use of proteomics and genomics in nutrition research. These terms refer to some of the latest techniques being used in nutrition research which makes it possible to assess the response at the whole cell or whole organ or whole body level to a nutritional variable. The investigator is now able to ask whether this response is at the level of gene expression by assessing whether a large array of genes are activated or suppressed. For example, the investigator might want to know whether fat feeding suppresses carbohydrate metabolism.
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