A pioneering new study published in Nature Microbiology, led by J. Oriol Sunyer, professor of immunology and pathobiology at ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that neurons can burn fat, challenging the long-held belief that the brain relies solely on glucose for fuel.

While glucose, or sugar, is a well-known fuel for the brain, Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have demonstrated that electrical activity in synapses—the junctions between neurons where communication ...

The totality of bacteria, viruses and fungi that exist in and on a multicellular organism forms its natural microbiome. The ...

PRD Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical stage company focused on the development of novel lipid metabolism regulators targeting ...

New basic science insights into programmed cell death could offer relief for inflammatory bowel disease. Many people with IBD ...

Many people with IBD, an umbrella term that includes ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, have a reduced quality of life, ...

Our data suggest that the hypocholesterolemic effects of barley are primarily the result of reduced dietary cholesterol uptake and bile acid resorption. Reduced expression of intestinal ASBT and ...