In the earliest stages of life, the developing brain is shaped by an intricate biological environment inside the womb. Glucose,...

A new study from Japan is drawing attention to a deceptively simple question with major implications for healthy ageing: does...

High-salt diets are widely recognized as a major risk factor for hypertension, but their effects extend beyond the cardiovascular system....

A plate of food may look like a personal choice, but multiplied across millions of households, it becomes a force...

Obesity may need to be defined less by a person’s metabolic test results and more by whether excess body fat...

Researchers writing in Frontiers in Science propose using simple tests to track metabolic health in noncommunicable diseases, which cause three...

A recent study adds a new piece to the emerging map of ACE2 biology—an essential entry point exploited by SARS‑CoV‑2...

Short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs)—especially acetate, propionate, and butyrate—are produced when gut microbes ferment carbohydrates that the human body cannot digest....

Brazil’s long coastline and rich marine life should, in theory, make seafood a nutritional powerhouse. Yet a new nationwide analysis...

A new transcriptomic map of human fat is helping to clarify why “brown” and “white” adipose tissues behave so differently—and...