Lifting heavy weights and hitting your daily protein goal isn’t just a surefire way to build sculpted muscles—it can also help increase your metabolism. And while it may seem like metabolism only ...

What is NAD? If you’ve been finding yourself more tired and foggy than usual, Google results and Reddit threads might have led you to this three letter acronym. NAD, aka nicotinamide adenine ...

Sugar metabolism refers to the process by which the body breaks down carbohydrates into sugars, including glucose and fructose. The body uses these sugars as a source of energy. The body metabolizes ...

Many college students believe they can sleep when they’re dead; however, it’s actually more accurate to believe in sleep, or you will be dead. One of the three pillars of health — along with physical ...

This story has been updated. The human immune system is our body’s primary line of defense against harmful microbes, viruses and other invaders—but that defense line can sometimes run amok and attack ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded today to Princeton graduate alumna Mary Brunkow “for groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the ...

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were awarded the prize for research showing how the body regulates its immune responses. By Gina Kolata and Ali Watkins Mary E. Brunkow, Fred ...

ABSTRACT: Introduction: The increasing incidence of urinary tract infections (UTIs) caused by multidrug-resistant organisms represents a pressing global health challenge. The current study aims to ...

Consuming fewer calories is largely accepted as a way to improve health and lose weight, but a recently published study in Nature Metabolism points to a specific sulfur-containing amino acid cysteine ...

Purple sulfur bacteria (PSB) are important photoautotrophs inhabiting chemoclines in euxinic and meromictic lakes. These organisms are the only producers of the carotenoid, okenone, a compound that ...

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