Metabonomics and medicine: the Biochemical Oracle.
Occasionally, a new idea emerges that has the potential to revolutionize an entire field of scientific endeavour. It is now within our grasp to be able to detect subtle perturbations within the phenomenally complex biochemical matrix of living organisms. The discipline of metabonomics promises an all-encompassing approach to understanding total, yet fundamental, changes occurring in disease processes, drug toxicity and cell function.
Mitchell
Steve
S
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK. s.c.mitchell@ic.ac.uk
Holmes
Elaine
E
Carmichael
Paul
P
D000818:Animals; D016678:Genome; D006801:Humans; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008967:Molecular Biology; D012106:Research