Research Articles
The Unsung Hero: How a Common Energy Drink Ingredient is Fighting Diabetes
Discover how taurine, a common energy drink ingredient, shows promising potential in fighting diabetes through scientific research on pancreatic and adrenal function.
Mice as Metabolic Marvels: Decoding the Body's Chemical Switches
Explore how genetically engineered mice reveal the secrets of metabolism and drug response through PPARα knockouts and bovine CYP3A transgenics.
Glycogen: The Trojan Horse of Cancer Cells
Exploring how glycogen metabolism plays a crucial role in the cancer microenvironment and provides new therapeutic targets for cancer treatment.
The Lemur's Winter Secret: A Metabolic Masterpiece Written in the Liver
Discover how the grey mouse lemur's liver molecular fingerprint reveals secrets of winter survival and metabolic adaptation
The Great Yeast Awakening: How a Simple Sugar Kickstarts a Cellular City
Explore how starved yeast cells regulate their aerobic metabolism when glucose and ammonium ions are added, revealing fundamental cellular energy management principles.
Beyond the Scale: Two Game-Changing Concepts of Fat Metabolism
Explore the science behind fat metabolism, including the insulin-glucagon switch and the difference between visceral and subcutaneous fat.
The Glycogen Switch: How Your Body's Energy Reserve Stays Perfectly Balanced
Discover how your body regulates glycogen metabolism through the fascinating interplay of glycogenin proteins GYG1 and GYG2.
The Silent Sabotage: When the Liver Stops Listening to Insulin
Exploring how defective insulin regulation of triglyceride metabolism in the liver drives Type 2 Diabetes and its complications.
The Hidden Blueprint: How Our Earliest Days Shape Our Metabolic and Ovarian Health
Explore how perinatal sex steroid programming influences lifelong metabolic and ovarian health, including the connection to PCOS through scientific research.
The Sweet Switch: How Sugar Unlocks the Secrets of Fat Cell Formation
Discover how glucose availability controls fat cell formation through nicotinamide metabolism in groundbreaking research on adipogenesis.