Center for Metabolic Biology
Center for Metabolic Biology
Date established
City
Ames, IA
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Description
The Center for Metabolic Biology facilitates, encourages and sponsors innovative and fundamental molecular research that will lead to a comprehensive understanding of metabolic networks and systems. The center's goal is to generate the fundamental understanding of metabolism that will provide the basis for designing novel pathways for biochemical constituents that improve the nutritional quality of agricultural products, and generate new biorenewable sources of industrial feedstocks.