Early-life junk food permanently alters the brain's appetite center, but gut microbiome interventions can restore healthy feeding behavior.

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified two lipids that work together with a quintessential protein known ...

Cornell researchers have uncovered a built-in molecular "gate" that controls the production of the molecule nitric oxide, a crucial signaling molecule throughout biology that in humans helps regulate ...

Light powers everything from communications to sensing, yet even tiny imperfections can scatter it and weaken signals. To address this, a team led by the University of Bath—working with the University ...

Deep in the folds of the intestine, in microscopic pockets called crypts, a quiet surveillance system is always at work. Stem ...

Autophagy is indispensable for maintaining hepatocyte integrity, metabolic homeostasis, and survival. While several autophagy ...

The field of cellular neuroscience continues to reveal the intricate regulation of neural and glial cell function by water and ion channels, transporters, ...

Neuromuscular diseases comprise a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by progressive impairment of muscle function resulting from defects in ...