Berkeley, personal genomics, and my 23andMe results
Last month, on April 23, it was DNA day. Personal genomics company 23andMe offered a huge discount on their regularly-priced $400 Complete package, down to $99. The geek (or lesser offensive “early...
View ArticleDoes nutrition need a new research paradigm?
When you consider how highly complex food systems interact with highly complex human systems, it is a bit overwhelming. Then consider the thousands of different food species, nutrients, dietary...
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The complex (plasma) lipidome quantified
There are thousands of lipid species in our bodies that represent 6 categories, but we only usually hear about the subcategories of cholesterol and triglycerides. We don’t yet understand how they are...
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Mitochondrial membrane alpha-tocopherol/homologues: super scavengers or...
I love research that alters established dogma with new technology (hence Nutritional Blogma), so I felt compelled to highlight this one. Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are structurally important...
View ArticleGene-environment interaction database related to nutritional phenotypes
Larry Parnell (Twitter, Blog), Yu-Chi Lee, Chao-Qiang Lai, & Jose Ordovas (Twitter) took what must have been an enormous amount of time and put together a database of gene-environment interactions...
View ArticleHuman serum metabolome (better) quantified
An important paper in PLoS One was published last month by Psychogios et al. that details a huge effort that yielded the most comprehensive characterization of the human serum metabolome yet. I...
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PLIN4 allele-specific influence on microRNA binding has subtle effects on...
Kris Richardson et al. (including Larry Parnell and Jose Ordovas who are on Twitter) give a fascinating example of a gene-diet interaction yesterday in PLoS One (press release); the variant on a mRNA...
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