Nutrigenomics

When Nutrigenomics or nutrigenomics is a research area in which the knowledge from genome research, plant breeding and genetic engineering and modern medicine should be combined with the objective to develop foods that can be used in medical prevention and treatment. This will be achieved this goal through the development of special types of Designer Food - functional food ( " Impfbanane " ), nutraceuticals ( foods with pharmaceutical effect ) - and food additives. The field of nutrigenomics is one of the most recent areas of modern biotechnological research dar. International and national research projects in this field, such as the network of nutrigenomics Berlin -Brandenburg are largely under construction or in the phase of establishment.

With the help of modern biotechnological techniques to try to make the findings from the genome analysis of the human genome project and the plant genome project for medical science available. In order to compete with the projects of pharmacogenomics, nutrigenomics occurs to some degree ( internationally known as pharmacogenomics ) large pharmaceutical companies complement each other in many parts of or but also overlap these two branches of research.

Another area of nutrigenomics is the nutritional advice. Genetic metabolic analyzes tailored diets for people to be found. Through individual recommendations, the patient should find a healthy diet. Currently assessed Johanna Feichtinger by the Association for Independent Health counseling the benefits of such tests as doubtful. " The relationship between diet and genes is too complex to be based on the results so far direct recommendations can be derived. "

The current work in the nutrigenomischen research focuses on the further decoding of the human genome and various crops, the study of genetic causes of various common diseases, research into the diet -borne illnesses and the development of functional foods through genetic engineering.