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From animals in the service of nutrition...to the potential of biotechnology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2018

Judith Hall
Judith Hall*
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Department of Biological and Nutritional Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
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In 1986, in her paper, ‘Animals in the service of human nutrition’, celebrating the award of the E. V. McCollum International Lectureship in Nutrition, Dr Elsie Widdowson observed: ‘Animals have served human nutrition well over the past century.... They are still of great service in human nutrition and may be more essential in the future as proper animal models for human diseases are discovered’. Ten years on, those animal models are an integral part of nutrition research and are providing fundamental tools to study the effects of diet on many of the major diseases of the Western world, including cardiovascular disease, obesity and cancer. Many of these models have been developed through the use of recombinant DNA technology and the expression of normal or mutated genes in the genome of transgenic mice.

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British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 78 , Supplement s2: A New Millenium of Nutrition Research: A Celebration of the Ninetieth Birthday of Dr Elsie Widdowson CH CBE FRS DSc, 21 October 1996 , November 1997 , pp. S125 - S133
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