Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a novel way brown fat - an energy-burning form of fat - can rev the body's metabolic engine, consuming cellular ...

Scientists discover alternative cellular process for producing heat that may enhance metabolic health. Researchers at ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a novel way brown fat—an energy-burning ...

The pain of gout has been with us for millennia at least, but scientists have gone back much further in time – more than 20 ...

Peroxisomes were visualized in living plant cells using a yellow fluorescent protein tagged with a peroxisomal targeting signal consisting of the SKL motif ...

As obesity in America continues to rise at alarming rates, researchers are finding that diet and exercise are not the only driving factors. A new scientific review from UCLA Health explains how stress ...

Peer ReviewDownload a summary of the editorial decision process including editorial decision letters, reviewer comments and author responses to feedback. Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) plasticity and ...

Up to 10 to 20% of the proteome contains regions with much lower amino acid diversity than would be expected by chance. This year’s Lasker Basic Science Award is given to Steven McKnight and Dirk ...