Sterols, such as cholesterol in our bodies or ergosterol in yeast cells, are among the most abundant lipids in eukaryotic ...

A new study has identified taurine, which is made naturally in the body and consumed through some foods, as a key regulator of myeloid cancers such as leukemia. The paper is published in Nature.

Despite the massive successes of immunotherapy, which utilizes the body’s immune system as a tool to fight cancer, therapy ...

Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered new intracellular mechanisms that help specialized immune cells adapt and ...

Scientists have jumped on the anti-aging bandwagon, not just to prevent it, but to measure it. Tools that use algorithms to ...

The technique used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other ...

Treated with an individualized gene-editing therapy that corrects mutations directly on the genome, a patient shows improvement from a rare metabolic disease.

Scientists have extensively studied the role of metabolism in individual cells ... In two back-to-back publications in the journal Cell Stem Cell, researchers from the groups of Vikas Trivedi ...

In a medical first that could revolutionize treatment for thousands of rare genetic diseases, doctors have successfully used ...

New research published in the journal Disease Models & Mechanisms offers insights into how glial cells — the supportive cells ...

A vitamin supplement that improves metabolism in the eye appears to slow down damage to the optic nerve in glaucoma. The researchers behind the study have now started a clinical trial on patients.