The University of New Brunswick has welcomed a new addition to its Pediatric Health and Development Studies (PEADS) Laboratory — a custom-engineered infant metabolic chamber that will allow researchers to measure an infant’s metabolism as early as Day 1.
Lab director Maryam Kebbe says chamber can answer long list of burning questions
Hannah Rudderham · CBC News
· Posted: Apr 04, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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The infant metabolic chamber in the Pediatric Health and Development Studies (PEADS) Laboratory at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton is the first of its kind in Canada. Maryam Kebbe, director of the lab and associate kinesiology professor, said that the chamber has portholes on the side so parents can interact with their child during metabolism testing. (Hannah Rudderham/CBC)
The University of New Brunswick has welcomed a new addition to its Pediatric Health and Development Studies (PEADS) Laboratory — a custom-engineered infant metabolic chamber that will allow researchers to measure an infant’s metabolism as early as Day 1.
And it’s the first of its kind in Canada
There are already systems in the lab and elsewhere to examine an adult’s metabolism,
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