Looking for modest effects
Nobody will deny that there is a relationship between food and health. But what exactly is that relationship? How do various nutrients influence biological processes? Can tailor-made diets really prevent disease?
Using the whole array of genomics technologies, various NGI Genomics Centres are tackling an array of topics, including fat handling by healthy cells, enzymes that degrade toxic gluten in the human stomach and epidemiological studies into metabolic syndrome.