The predictive power of blood: metabolomic profiling reveals risk of multiple diseases all at once

Striving for early risk identification and preventive action

26-Sep-2022 - To prevent diseases from occurring in the first place, it is important to identify those individuals who are at particularly high risk as early as possible. Yet current screening methods are often costly and focus only on one disease at a time. Scientists from the Berlin Institute of Health at ...

Tracking Small Things in Cells

Small and tunable fluorophores for the imaging of metabolites in living cells

02-May-2019 - Living cells can react to disturbances with a changed metabolism, but direct observation of trafficking metabolites in live cells is difficult. An international team of scientists has now developed a class of remarkably small fluorophores called SCOTfluors. The dyes emit light in the visible to ...

From metabolite profiles to molecular biomarkers for colorectal cancer

16-Apr-2019 - The aim of a European project (TRANSCAN) is to identify metabolite signatures that are associated with all stages in the development of colorectal cancer. Metabolomic analysis was performed on more than 2,000 plasma samples from individuals with colorectal cancer, colorectal adenoma and a control ...