Glucolipid metabolism is a core biological process for maintaining energy balance and homeostasis in the human body. However, the widespread adoption of ...

While modern life includes many conveniences, humans are still incessantly exposed to a variety of metabolic stresses we have ...

Antibiotics are a double-edged sword—they should be as toxic as possible to pathogenic bacteria while being harmless to the cells of the human body. An international research team led by the Helmholtz ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have mapped the human metabolic pathways that Cryptosporidium, an intestinal parasite, requires to survive. Shutting down these pathways may offer a new way ...

Can your gut bacteria control your stress? Microbial diversity and short-chain fatty acids are linked to acute cortisol ...

An unprecedented international effort to decode how cells manage the transport of chemical substances has culminated in four groundbreaking studies This decade-long project provides the first ...

Study: Personalized molecular signatures of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Image credit: Microgen/Shutterstock.com A recent study, published in the journal Cell, utilized cutting-edge ...

A new report, published in Nature Metabolism, is shedding light on the distinct and underappreciated role of fructose in ...

For many years, metabolic diseases have been explained mainly through laboratory numbers. High blood sugar defines diabetes. High cholesterol raises concern ...