There are "costs of life" that mechanical physics cannot calculate. A clear example is the energy required to keep specific biochemical processes active—such as those that make up photosynthesis, ...

This study reveals that enhancing the activity of a conserved “housekeeping” gene can significantly elevate fruit nutritional and sensory traits. By increasing the expression of a tRNA-associated gene ...

Plants are a rich and renewable source of compounds used in medicines, food ingredients, and cosmetics. Since growing an entire plant just to extract a few specific compounds is rather inefficient, ...

A University of Michigan study used AI to create a digital twin replica of gliomas to shed light on the metabolic pathways activated by brain tumors.

In several disease conditions, including infections and cancers, innate immune activation and nutrient scarcity occur together. A study from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, published in Cell, ...

Scientists at the Baylor College of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, and collaborating institutions published a study, “A β-hydroxybutyrate shunt pathway generates anti-obesity ketone ...

CSU is associated with gut microbiota, with metabolic pathways potentially mediating this link, suggesting new research directions. Accurate CSU diagnosis is difficult due to symptom overlap with ...

Plant cell cultures are an attractive alternative to cultivating whole plants for obtaining natural compounds, but many biosynthetic genes remain inactive under standard culture conditions. Now, ...