1.   A costly device known as a Tandem Mass Spectrometer can detect many metabolic diseases that are outside the reach of standard equipment.

2.   Defective genetic material can be replaced with healthy genes in patients suffering from immunological disorders, various cancers and metabolic diseases.

3.   Did she have a rare metabolic disease?

4.   Gout is a metabolic disease, in which uric acid erodes bone tissues and deposits sharp mineral crystals in joints, causing excruciating pain.

5.   Kinases transmit signals between and within cells and are associated with cancer, cardiovascular diseases, autoimmune disorders, and metabolic diseases.

6.   President Clinton Friday announced an effort to combat diabetes, a metabolic disease that afflicts millions of Americans.

7.   All newborns in Maine, but not neighboring New Hampshire, are routinely tested for a sometimes fatal metabolic disease called MCAD.

8.   Consider the inherited metabolic diseases, which have such tongue-twisting names that many go by acronyms like VLCAD and MCAD.

9.   It is not among the metabolic diseases that all newborns are tested for at birth, so often infants die undiagnosed, Meyers said.

10.   Just four days before his death, University of Pennsylvania scientists had placed healthy genes in his liver to combat a rare metabolic disease.