The use of cultured cells in the clinical diagnosis of hereditary metabolic dis- ease is a rapidly developing subject to which many different disciplines have brought their expertise and knowledge. A number of scientists who have in- dividually contributed to the growth of the subject gave invited papers at the Fourteenth Symposium of the Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism in the University of Edinburgh on 13-16th July, 1976. These papers form the basis of this monograph which brings together contributions from the basic sciences and from physicians concerned primarily with...