Genomics: food and nutrition

Nutrition is traditionally a multidisciplinary field applying principles of molecular biochemistry and statistical epidemiology to integrative metabol ism and population health. Genomics, with its global perspective, is now re inventing the future of human metabolic health. Creative experimental desig ns are addressing metabolic questions in nutrition ranging from energy regu lation to aging, and from mechanisms of absorption to the interspecies mole cular crosstalk of bacteria and human cells within the intestine.