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metabolomics

British  
/ mɪˈtæˌbəˈlɒmɪks /

noun

  1. the study of all the metabolites present in cells, tissues, and organs

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While metabolomics has become a powerful tool in modern medical research, it has rarely been applied to fossils.

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"I've always had an interest in metabolism, including the metabolic rate of bone, and wanted to know if it would be possible to apply metabolomics to fossils to study early life. It turns out that bone, including fossilized bone, is filled with metabolites," said Timothy Bromage, professor of molecular pathobiology at NYU College of Dentistry and affiliated professor in NYU's Department of Anthropology, who led the international research team.

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The Broad project was originally conceived of by Steve Carr, senior director of Broad's Proteomics Platform; Clary Clish, senior director of Broad's Metabolomics Platform; Robert Gerszten, a senior associate member at the Broad and chief of cardiovascular medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; and Christopher Newgard, a professor of nutrition at Duke University.

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To begin tackling the evolutionary enigma, lab members collaborated with specialists at MSU's Mass Spectrometry and Metabolomics Core, as well as staff at the Max T. Rogers Nuclear Magnetic Resonance facility.

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"The combination of metagenomics and metabolomics from leaf, root and soils, along with Populus host transcriptomes, make this a truly unique dataset for the research community and could serve as a central data resource to explore plant-microbe interactions," said Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, Metagenome Program head at JGI.

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