Now researchers from The Rockefeller University have unearthed intriguing genetic evidence: a protein variant found only in humans that may have helped shape the emergence of spoken language.

A multi-omics study reveals that impaired branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) catabolism is a key driver of sarcopenia, ...

Although gut microbiota and lipid metabolites have been suggested to be closely associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), the interactions between gut microbiota, ...

Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, Innovation Academy of South China Sea Ecology and Environmental Engineering, South China ...

as in unsaturated fatty acids, or single bonds, as in saturated fatty acids. Fatty acids are generally derived from triglycerides and phospholipids. Dietary fats are generally fatty acids.

The researchers also noted that every 1% increase in fatty muscle fraction — defined as total intermuscular adipose tissue divided by the summation of skeletal muscle and intermuscular adipose ...

This is confirmed by a new study, which identified PanK4 as a key regulator of energy metabolism in skeletal muscle, regulating glucose uptake and fatty acid oxidation and being activated by ...