 The list is restricted to medical professionals and scientists involved in metabolic diseases.Metab-L threads cover a broad range of topics including workshop information, project discussion, address exchanges, laboratory assays, scientific literature, job opportunities and technical questions with an important focus on clinical topics - discussion and shared evidence of intriguing and rare cases, general treatment of certain disorders of metabolism and general diagnostic principles.Metab-L was started in August 1995 by a clinical pediatrician, Dr. med.