One strange marsh plant can keep itself near room temperature even in freezing weather. Here’s the biology behind its ...

Under the settlement, Kidman has primary residential custody of their daughters, Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 15, with the girls living with her 306 days a year. Urban has custody for 59 days, ...

1 Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, USA. 2 Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas Southwestern, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA.

Obesity research often promises breakthroughs yet struggles to balance effectiveness with safety. Many weight loss approaches act on appetite or behavior, while metabolism remains harder to adjust ...

Researchers have developed experimental drugs that encourage the mitochondria in our cells to work a little harder and burn more calories. The findings could open the door to new treatments for ...

Here, we performed a drug repurposing screen that identified compounds that selectively activate the integrated stress response (ISR) through the OMA1-DELE1-HRI signaling axis. Using these compounds, ...

Introduction: Type 2 diabetic kidney disease (T2DKD) is a major cause of end-stage renal disease and exhibits marked sex differences in onset and progression. NO is a key regulator of renal function ...

A back-up heater in brown fat The traditional understanding of brown fat's heat production involves mitochondria —power plants within the body's cells. Scientists have long known that mitochondria in ...

When exposed to cold, peroxisomes in brown fat increase in number, the researchers found. This increase is even more dramatic in mice whose mitochondria are deficient in uncoupling protein 1, ...

1 Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy 2 Department of Animal Medicine, Productions and Health (MAPS), University of Padua, Legnaro, Italy Introduction: This study ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of metabolic enhancement supplements, finding a product that delivers on its promises can be a challenging endeavor. As someone deeply invested in optimizing body ...

For a rare type of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), inhibiting a cellular stress response can normalize processes and function in specialized nerve cells called motor neurons, suggesting this ...