metabolic functions

How a new technique allows researchers to tune communication between organelles on the scale of nanometers

The peel, seed, flesh, and leaves of avocados have differing effects on components of metabolic syndrome

Researchers have devised a periodic table of protein complexes, making it easier to visualize, understand, and predict how proteins combine to drive biological processes

Deregulation of pathway is associated with diseases ranging from diabetes to cancer to epilepsy

Time to bust myth that anyone–including athletes–can outrun a bad diet

Cheese, though high in saturated fat, could help lower cholesterol and help explain the “French paradox.”

Salk scientists discover a single protein that energizes both muscles and the brain.

Stem cells in early embryos have unlimited potential; they can become any type of cell, and researchers hope to one day harness this rejuvenating power to heal disease and injury. To do so, they must, among other things, figure out how to reliably arrest stem cells in a Peter Pan-like state of indefinite youth and potential. It’s clear the right environment can help accomplish this, acting as a sort of Neverland for stem cells. Only now are scientists beginning to understand how.

Scientists at EPFL have used a new imaging technique to monitor how glucose, our main energy source, is used in the body. Their findings may have great implications for diseases like diabetes.

Weight loss at high altitudes—something universally experienced by climbers and people who move to higher terrain—may not be a detrimental effect, but rather is likely an evolutionarily-programmed adaptation, according to a new article in BioEssays.