Plants, fungi and bacteria produce a variety of bioactives that alter cell metabolism, sometimes to the point of cell death.

Blood stem cells develop through different stages to become fully mature red blood cells. This fundamental biologic process ...

Healthy weight loss is typically about getting enough physical activity so your body consumes the energy you feed it through ...

Pancreatic cells, like human cells, have a limit to how much stress they can handle before they start to break down. Through ...

Excess cholesterol is known to form artery-clogging plaques that can lead to stroke, arterial disease, heart attack, and more, making it the focus of many heart health campaigns.

Neuroscience research has increasingly focused on the role of autophagy in maintaining neuronal health and metabolism. Neurons, with their complex architecture and post-mitotic nature, require ...

After all, the cell must repeat its whole genetic material, including billions of genetic letters, before it can divide. Read ...

Type 1 diabetes is all day every day, with no breaks during sleep, no holidays or weekends off, no remission and no cure. Type 1 diabetics don’t make insulin, a hormone that is required to live that ...

Image Credit: Andrii Zastrozhnov / Shutterstock In a recent review published in the journal Metabolites, researchers in Italy ...

according to new research. The findings from the study are published in the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, ...

Impact of mitochondrial network dynamics on immune cell ... metabolism, mitochondrial UPR, Mitophagy, Mitochondrial fission and fusion, Mitochondria in immune signaling pathways, Mitochondria in ...

A study suggests that the chemical replacements for BPA behave almost identically to the controversial compound they were ...