12th Annual Report of the National Institutes of Health Program in Biomedical and Behavioral Nutrition Research and Training

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Excerpt from 12th Annual Report of the National Institutes of Health Program in Biomedical and Behavioral Nutrition Research and Training: Fiscal Year 1988Important discoveries over the last decade in molecular biology, genetics, and immunology have opened vast new vistas in the biomedical sciences-vistas which will greatly influence nutrition in the next century. As a result, biomedical research at the National Institutes of Health (nih), including that devoted to nutrition, is moving forward at an unprecedented pace. In fact, the coming together of many separate developments in the biomedical sciences has put the nih on the threshold of a major leap forward in the improvement of human health. For example, the nih is at the forefront of a rapidly growing new effort to explain the human genome-the complete set of hereditary factors, or genes, contained in the chromosomes of each cell of an individual. The massive human genome effort will take place over the next few years, and will have a profound effect upon medical and nutrition science. From future discoveries, investigators will be able to use their new knowledge about the activities of the human cell to design nutrition and drug therapies, and vaccines against a host of serious illnesses.The heart of the new human genome effort derives from the rapid strides being made, thanks to high technology, in the under standing of the subunits of biologically impor tant molecules: through the analysis of proteins (the tens of thousands of different molecules comprised of amino acids that perform the body's major functions), nucleic acids (dna and rna), carbohydrates (sugar and starches), lipids (fats), and their complex combinations and interactions in the cell. Consequently, nutrition is at the core of proper cell function. How it relates and some of the strides already developed are discussed in section 3 of this report. However, extensive speculation about where exciting developments at the cellular level will lead is beyond the scope of this report - one which is essentially devoted to the details of nutrition-related research at nih during FY 1988. Yet the prospect of a better understanding of the human genome offers many striking possibilities for the biomedical sciences, including nutrition, in the years ahead.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.