From CropBiotech Update
What next-generation services can be expected in agricultural biotechnology?
Personalized nutrition based on individual genetics…
Nutrigenomics or applying genetic science toward human nutrition and health is expected to play a more prominent role in making these future products possible says Chuck Muscoplat, faculty member of the University of Minneapolis College of Medicine and former Dean of the College of Agriculture.
Muscoplat explained that “compounds from food can be studied and developed as modulators of gene expression rather than as simple nutrients for basic nutrition”.
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http://www.isb.vt.edu/news/2006/artspdf/nov0605.pdf