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New blood test may help track individual fat intake

McMaster University researchers have developed a precise and reliable blood test to monitor the intake of fats by individuals. This blood test may serve as a tool to guide public health policy related to healthy eating.

18 May 2020

'Metabolic Signature' Can Determine Adherence To Mediterranean Diet, Help Predict CVD Risk

"Metabolic signature" can evaluate an individual's response to the Mediterranean diet and help predict future risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD).

18 May 2020

Evidence of the ‘metabolon’

AZoLifeSciences speaks to Dr. Vidhi Pateek about her teams research that led to discovering evidence of the metabolon's existence.

From Penn State University 14 May 2020

Scientists Revealed Usefulness Of Culinary Herbs

A group of scientists has developed a fast and cost-effective method of detecting and identifying bioactive compounds in samples such as plant extracts.

7 May 2020

Engineers Develop Precision Injection System For Plants

While the human world is reeling from one pandemic, there are several ongoing epidemics that affect crops and put global food production at risk.

28 Apr 2020

Study Reveals Bile Metabolite Of Gut Microbes Boosts Immune Cells

A study has discovered a novel means by which bacterial colonies in the small intestine support the generation of regulatory T cells.

20 Apr 2020

Proving the existence of metabolons

For over four decades, researchers have proposed the presence of enzyme clusters, also called metabolons, which help facilitate several processes within cells.

17 Apr 2020

Reducing Reliance On Nitrogen Fertilizers With Biological Nitrogen Fixation

Crop yields have increased substantially over the past decades, occurring alongside the increasing use of nitrogen fertilizer.

2 Apr 2020

Study develops high-resolution maps of microbial communities on the human tongue

Scientists in the United States have used a newly developed fluorescent imaging technique to create high-resolution maps of microbial communities on the human tongue.

25 Mar 2020

Study explores the impact of solute carriers on the activity and potency of cytotoxic drugs

At the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, scientists have investigated how solute carriers (SLCs)—a large class of membrane transport proteins—affect the activity and potency of cytotoxic drugs, for example, those used to treat leukemia and other cancers.

10 Mar 2020

Combining AIMS with machine learning to speed up breast cancer diagnosis

Researchers have conducted a study showing that combining an AIMS approach with machine learning could speed up the diagnosis of breast cancer.

15 Feb 2020

A new study finds a potential immunotherapeutic pan-target on cancer cells

In a genome-wide CRISPR-Cas9 screen published in Nature Immunology in January 2020, a group of researchers described a potential universal target on cancer cells.

12 Feb 2020