Obesity is not a single disease. New research shows distinct biological phenotypes that explain why weight gain and treatment ...

Type 2 diabetes has long been framed as a story of calories, weight and willpower, but a growing body of research is shifting the spotlight to the trillions of microbes that live in the human gut. A ...

The TO_AITION project, completed this month (December 2025), has been investigating the biological causes of inflammation ...

As an assist to his students back in 1960, microbiologist Donald Nicholson sketched out a big chart of metabolic pathways; he thought it would help them to have it pinned up on a wall for ready ...

In several disease conditions, including infections and cancers, innate immune activation and nutrient scarcity occur together. A study from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, published in Cell, ...

Acute systemic inflammation has long been suspected to trigger harmful processes within the brain, contributing to ...

Even after years of smoking, the body has a remarkable ability to repair itself. Now in a study appearing in ACS' Journal of Proteome Research, scientists report that certain metabolic changes occur ...

Developmental programming has gained considerable attention in animal sciences because early conditions can shape how ...

Researchers have discovered a brain enzyme that could lead to new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases by restoring ...

The process behind embryonic diapause could explain how cancer cells can survive long periods of metabolic stress.