Douglas B. Kell

Ergothioneine, an antioxidant nutraceutical mainly at present derived from the dietary intake of mushrooms, has been suggested as a preventive for pre-eclampsia (PE). We analysed early pregnancy samples from a cohort of 432 first time mothe…

Background In metabolic network reconstruction the stoichiometric balancing of reactions is essential to create realistic constraint-based models. At the genome scale, balancing is a repetitive task that consumes valuable curator resource …

Ergothioneine (ERG), is a water-soluble amino acid that is derived entirely from dietary sources. It has received much attention as a therapeutic agent due to its anti-oxidant properties, and there are claims of preferential accumulation wi…