Comprehensive Science

The NCRC is not just a collection of academic and industry researchers. It is a comprehensive, masterplanned, research community that offers the broadest range of scientific disciplines, equipment, and instrumentation that includes:

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  • Genetics
  • Proteomics
  • Metabolomics
  • Diagnostics
  • Biochemistry
  • Pharmacogenomics
  • Nutrigenomics
  • Bioactive food components
  • Plant breeding
  • Postharvest technologies
  • Food safety technologies
  • Bioinformatics
  • Exercise physiology
  • Business development and commercialization

Many of these capabilities reside in the David H. Murdock Research Institute and are available to academic, industry, and government researchers on or off the NCRC.

The range of scientific disciplines and scope of instrumentation are all geared to further goals that advance the application of nutrition and agriculture to improve human health, such as:

  • Speeding new therapies and treatments from the lab to the patients who need them.
  • Revolutionizing healthcare by finding ways to match treatments to a patient's genetic profile.
  • Understanding individual metabolic variations to develop patient-specific rather than generic treatments for metabolic disorders and diseases like cancer and obesity.
  • Identifying and evaluating bioactive components of foods and herbal medicines for the prevention and treatment of diseases.
  • Improving the quality and safety of food after it has left the farm and along the entire supply chain to a consumers' home.
  • Pioneering a shift in consumers' views of plants and food as proactive, responsible choices with positive health benefits that prevent disease.
  • Increasing the local and national competiveness of the agricultural sector.

Read more about the NCRC's Collaborative Scientific Environment.