Metabolism/Metabolic Diseases

Credit: Kim Ratliff, Augusta University Augusta University has received a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to help support the graduate education of future scientists whose focus is cardiometabolic diseases --…

No similar link found in muscle tissue Researchers at the Obesity Research Unit of the University of Helsinki have found that obesity clearly reduces mitochondrial gene expression in fat tissue, or adipose tissue. Mitochondria are…

Jacksonville, FL (April 8, 2021) - Susana R. Patton, Ph.D., ABPP, CDCES Center Director of the Nemours Center for Healthcare Delivery Science in Florida, has secured a three-year, $900,000 NIH R01 grant entitled, "Coin2Dose: Behavioral…

Xue Sherry Gao developing base editors to fix multitude of single mutations that cause diseaseCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (April 8, 2021) - Chemical and biomolecular engineer Xue Sherry Gao of Rice University's Brown…

Enzyme with central role in cancer and type 2 diabetes also activates "clean-up" protein in Parkinson'sCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(April 7, 2021) When cells are stressed, chemical alarms go off, setting in motion a flurry of…

Credit: Susan Urmy/VUMC Tumors consume glucose at high rates, but a team of Vanderbilt researchers has discovered that cancer cells themselves are not the culprit, upending models of cancer metabolism that have been developed and…

University of Toronto professor Daniel Drucker receives Gairdner International Award for research on glucagon-like peptidesCredit: Sinai Health Foundation A scientist at the University of Toronto has been jointly awarded a 2021…

Press passes now available for the year's biggest virtual nutrition meeting Is precision nutrition all hype or the future of nutrition? How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected food access and choices? Do our nutritional needs change as we…

Energy balance includes modulation of dopamine reward signalingCredit: Elsevier, 2021 Philadelphia, April 6, 2021 - Since the discovery of leptin in the 1990s, researchers have wondered, how does leptin, a hormone made by body fat,…

Researchers developed a new animal model to study a rare genetic disease that can lead to blindness at the age of 40-50.Credit: Photo: Dániel Csete, Semmelweis University Institute of Physiology As part of an international…

Black Americans experienced highest per capita excess death rates, while regional surges contributed to higher excess death rates from COVID-19 and other causes, a VCU-led JAMA study findsCredit: Virginia Commonwealth University Extended…

The discovery and development of a lipid-metabolite biomarker is expected to facilitate research and clinical trials of drugs that target multiple age-related diseasesCredit: Christopher Wiley, PhD Buck Institute researchers have…

Tufts and Georgetown scientists, and humanitarian José Andrés, call for a new approach to address food and nutrition inequitiesCredit: Samantha Higgins for World Central Kitchen. In the 1960s, a national focus on hunger was…

Credit: Hong Kong Baptist University A series of studies led by researchers from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) have revealed that hyocholic acid and its derivatives (collectively known as HCAs), a component of bile acids that…

A $3.3 million NIH grant is funding a five-year UArizona Health Sciences study designed to develop a mobile assessment tool to more accurately, and in near real-time, track and measure saturated fat and added sugar consumption. TUCSON,…

New research shows how high consumption affects learning, memory Sugar practically screams from the shelves of your grocery store, especially those products marketed to kids. Children are the highest consumers of added sugar, even as…

BOSTON - (March 25, 2021) - A mechanism has been identified that explains how physical exercise in pregnancy confers metabolic health benefits in offspring. According to researchers, the key lies with a protein called SOD3, vitamin D and…

New mouse study shows that combining a new drug with an old one could exploit the insatiable "hunger" of a deadly childhood cancerCredit: VCU Massey Cancer Center Preclinical research from VCU Massey Cancer Center published recently in…

One in four Germans suffers from metabolic syndrome. Several of four diseases of affluence occur at the same time in this 'deadly quartet': obesity, high blood pressure, lipid metabolism disorder and diabetes mellitus. Each of these is a…

Reduction in global consumption of added fructose would yield a positive impact PHOENIX, Ariz. -- March 29, 2021 -- A review of more than 20 studies by researchers at Arizona State University and the Translational Genomics Research…