A team at the University of Edinburgh has engineered a strain of E. coli that can swallow molecules derived from plastic ...

Losing weight may involve rewiring the gut and the brain at the same time. In a study of obese adults, an intermittent ...

Here’s what cortisol is, why it matters, what happens when it stays too high and what actually helps bring things back into ...

Scientists at Université de Montréal have figured out how metformin—a common drug that's used to treat type-2 diabetes and that may cut the risk of developing cancer and even help humans and other ...

There is a forever chemical lurking in the world's oceans that could be fundamentally altering the biology of marine life before it even hatches. PFOS, a notorious member of the PFAS family of ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...

A newly published review article highlights the critical role of fatty acid metabolism in shaping the tumor microenvironment and influencing cancer progression, offering fresh perspectives for the ...

Carbon dioxide has long looked more like waste than resource. A new solar reactor turns it into living bacterial biomass ...

Your body adjusts your food intake and activity to maintain a balanced weight and avoid starvation. Researchers have proposed ...

Brain metabolism underpins nearly every aspect of neuronal function, from synaptic transmission and plasticity to cell survival and repair. The brain is one ...

Researchers discovered that leucine, a nutrient found in protein-rich foods, can supercharge mitochondria by protecting ...

Pythons can go weeks without eating. Now researchers have isolated an appetite-suppressing metabolite in python blood that ...