Chinese researchers have revealed a mechanism that triggers metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)—the most common type of primary liver cancer—through the production of acetate by ...

Feeding the gut acetate, paired with the right Bacteroides bacteria, led mice to shed fat without losing muscle. The combo pushed their metabolism into fat-burning mode, similar to fasting or a keto ...

Metabolic pathway presents promising new target for treating rare, aggressive childhood cancer by Jennifer Brown, University of Iowa edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

Mice provided the prebiotic acetylated cellulose gained much less weight if they also had Bacteroides bacteria in their distal intenstine. Researchers led by Hiroshi Ohno at the RIKEN Center for ...