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Metabolomics is a field of life science research that uses high throughput technologies to comprehensively identify and/or characterize the metabolome. The metabolome refers to the complete collection of small molecules (MW < 1500 Da) within a biological specimen including both, endogenous and exogenous compounds.
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Metabolomics affords detailed characterization of metabolic phenotypes, thus enabling precision medicine at several levels, including the characterization of metabolic derangements that underlie disease, discovery of new therapeutic targets, and discovery of biomarkers used to diagnose diseases or/and to monitor activity of therapeutics.
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Metabolomics lags behind other -omics sciences and technological development is needed to drive it to a functional genomics tool. At MIL@b we conduct frontier research to advance metabolomics technologies.
