metabolism

Astronomically high blood sugar is no problem for these tiny speed demons.

Spatial methods reveal immune cell formations in fat during early obesity.

Annie Curtis’s research team revealed how circadian rhythm-regulated mitochondrial metabolism drives dendritic cell antigen presentation activity.

Exercise drives the liver to produce the CES2 enzyme, which circulates in blood and delivers some of the benefits of exercise in mice. 

Yeast cells share metabolites through extracellular space to extend the lifespan of the entire community.

Microbiomes transplanted from women with anorexia nervosa into mice enhanced symptoms of the eating disorder, such as rapid weight loss and reduced appetite.

The mutation prevents certain amino acids from entering neurons, causing the cells to die early in development.

An engineered methylation pattern persisted for four generations of mice, demonstrating transgenerational epigenetic inheritance can occur in mammals.

Altering the rate of respiration in mitochondria changes how fast neurons grow, making mouse neurons grow more like human ones and vice versa, a study finds.

The odor prompted the animals’ fat cells to release lipids into circulation.

A jolt of norepinephrine in the mouse gut facilitates colonization by certain microbes, which in turn deplete glycine, enhancing cocaine-induced behaviors.

He was best known for his discovery that grapefruit juice makes some medications less effective or potentially dangerous.

Emergency responders arrived at a structure fire in Kansas City to find the two graduate students suffering from “apparent trauma” before they were declared dead at the scene.