Metabolism is more than burning calories. UAB experts explain how metabolism develops from before birth through older adulthood, how hormones, nutrition and lifestyle affect metabolic health, and ...

Cardiometabolic research has increasingly recognized the centrality of metabolic dysregulation and dietary imbalances in the development and progression of ...

There are "costs of life" that mechanical physics cannot calculate. A clear example is the energy required to keep specific biochemical processes active—such as those that make up photosynthesis, ...

Immunometabolism has profoundly elucidated the central role of metabolism in regulating immune responses. Metabolism not only serves as the foundation for ...

Solid tumors often provide a challenging environment for the T cells of our immune system. By reprogramming the metabolism of T cells, scientists at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology and ...

Obesity is widely known for increasing the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease, but its damaging effects on the ...

Researchers have found hundreds of metabolic enzymes attached to human DNA inside the cell nucleus. Different tissues and cancers show unique patterns of these enzymes, forming a “nuclear metabolic ...

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 ...