Molecular fingerprints point the way to earlier cancer diagnosis and more targeted treatment
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 11:57
in Health & Medicine
Metabolites are molecular fingerprints of what your cells are up to and Dr Arun Sreekumar wants to know the impression made by cancer. You've likely heard about metabolites; your physician probably screens for some known ones such as triglycerides or cholesterol at your annual physical. Scientists suspect we have about 3,000 metabolites that come from our food or are synthesised from different compounds in our bodies...