Three years of comprehensive analysis took a group of twenty-odd scientists headed by biochemist David Wishart of the University of Alberta (Canada) to compile a complete list of "ingredients" of human blood.

Blood chemistries, or metabolites, are usually analyzed to identify conditions such as diabetes and kidney failure. Today, doctors analyze the blood of patients, studying the level of 10-20 chemicals. Now, after Wishart's team has completed its study, physicians will be able to study 4,229 metabolites and diagnose hundreds of various diseases that are characterized by an imbalance of blood biochemistry.

David Wishart claims that his group carried out the most complete chemical characterization of blood from ever conducted. Created by scientists, the database is freely available, so anyone can learn to see the complete list of metabolites, writes compulenta. Well, practitioners have been able to connect the abnormal content of various chemicals in the blood of patients with certain health problems.

However, the biochemist admits that the implementation of the results of his research will go rather slowly, as hospitals will have to purchase and establish new equipment for the analysis of at least several hundred of the 4,229 open metabolites.

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