RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Metabolon, Inc., the leader in global metabolomics, biomarker discovery and analysis, announces the publication of “Metabolomic Profiling Reveals Biochemical Pathways and Biomarkers Associated with Pathogenesis in Cystic Fibrosis Cells”, in the Journal of Biological Chemistry (2010, Vol. 285, No. 40, Pages 30516-30522). The article describes the application of non-targeted biochemical profiling (metabolomics) to study the biochemical changes in human lung epithelial cell lines of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. The study was carried out in collaboration with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics, Inc. (CFFT), a nonprofit subsidiary of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and CF researchers from the University of Pittsburgh funded by CFFT.
