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Metabolic engineering and human disease

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The study of metabolic networks could provide a new window into organ and tissue function, with great impact on many areas of medicine.

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  1. the Helen Andrus Benedict Professor of surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Shriners Burns Institute, 55 Fruit Street, Bigelow 1401, Boston, MA, 02114

    Martin L. Yarmush

  2. Instructor in Surgery and Bioengineering at the Centre for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Shriners Burns Institute, 55 Fruit Street, Bigelow 1401, Boston, MA, 02114

    François Berthiaume

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Yarmush, M., Berthiaume, F. Metabolic engineering and human disease. Nat Biotechnol 15, 525–528 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0697-525

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