New ways to understand metabolism offer pathways for advances in human health and disease Chinese researchers have decoded ...

Medically reviewed by Melissa Nieves, LND Tongkat ali (Eurycoma longifolia) is a flowering plant from Southeast Asia used as a medicinal herb to boost athletic and sexual performance, reduce stress, ...

Exposure to alcohol during the first weeks of embryonic development changes gene activity and cellular metabolism. In ...

Modern humans have existed for more than 200,000 years, and each new generation has begun with a single cell—dividing, ...

Despite being genetically identical, bacteria can vary considerably in shape and size. Whether these variations affect ...

The first product from BiomEdit—engineered microbes that protect broiler chickens from necrotic enteritis—could hit the ...

A ginger-derived molecule known as EMC shuts down a cancer's fat-making machinery causing it to activate backup systems and ...

A particularly challenging case is the multi‐layered networks that control mammalian cell cycle. These networks evolved to ensure that cells are committed to proliferation only if the appropriate ...

We develop and test a model to explain quantitative experimental single cell observations of probabilistic differentiation. The model suggests that cell cycle position affects lineage choice, as ...