“We were stuck in the mindset that glucose is an energy source and nothing else,” Stanford Medicine chairman of dermatology Dr. Paul Khavari said. His are the words that define the paradigm shift ...

The liver plays a central role in storing and supplying energy to the body. In type 2 diabetes and metabolic ...

Metabolic processes form the foundation of human energy systems, allowing our bodies to power everything from basic cellular functions to high-intensity athletic performance. While most people ...

Researchers reporting in ACS Energy Letters have devised a battery powered by vitamin B2 (riboflavin) and glucose. Inspired by how human bodies break down glucose for energy using enzymes, the team ...

For example, naïve T cells increase in size before undergoing a burst of proliferation, while liver and fat cells enlarge or contract in response to nutrient availability. In these cases, size changes ...