BBC NEWS | Health | Human metabolism recreated in lab: "'It's increasingly recognised there are these networks of metabolism and we need to know if we target something how that will spread out and this is potentially a way of dealing with that.'
Dr Anthony Wierzbicki, consultant in specialist laboratory medicine at St Thomas's hospital, has done a lot of work on the role of cholesterol in heart disease.
'This is a potentially interesting tool for investigating metabolism of which cholesterol biochemistry forms a part,' he said.
But he added that the model would have to be 'sophisticated' enough to predict what happens in the production and breakdown of cholesterol as well how it is absorbed from the gut as the two were closely linked."
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