By 2030, the population in the United States aged 65 and older is expected to reach 71 million or about 20% of Americans.

What exactly happens in the hearts of patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF)—and how can this ...

Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a life-threatening condition characterized by acute deterioration of liver function in patients with pre-existing chronic liver disease. It is often ...

New research shows that the same genes are active in pancreatic cancer, obesity and diabetes, helping to explain why people ...

Transcriptomic phenotyping offers mechanistic insight into adipocyte biology and metabolic disease. A signature of adipocyte ...

Solid tumors often provide a challenging environment for the T cells of our immune system. By reprogramming the metabolism of T cells, scientists at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology and ...

The field of nutrition science increasingly recognizes the role of dietary bioactives, non-nutrient compounds in foods such as polyphenols, carotenoids, ...

The study of medicinal plants represents a vital interdisciplinary field at the intersection of traditional botanical knowledge and modern life sciences. In ...

Recent studies have uncovered surprising mechanisms in sugar metabolism, from a fleeting intermediate state in glucose transport to a novel pathway regulating glycogen via ubiquitin tagging.