An international research team led by scientists from the University of Bonn, the University Hospital Bonn and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior...
Ellagic acid is a polyphenolic, non-flavonoid compound naturally found in a variety of fruits, such as pomegranates, raspberries, strawberries, and grapes,...
Transparency in animals is a complex form of camouflage involving mechanisms that reduce the scattering and absorption of light throughout the organism....
Paleontologists from Curtin University and elsewhere have studied a three-dimensionally mineralized heart (the oldest ever found), stomach, intestine and...
Evidence suggests that caffeine reduces cardiovascular disease risk. However, the mechanism by which this occurs is still unknown. In a new study, researchers...
Vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) with a strong preference for ethanol that were given an analogue of FGF21 (fibroblast growth factor 21), a powerful...
According to a new study in mice, a probable cause of Alzheimer’s disease is the leakage from blood into the brain of fat-carrying particles transporting...
In a study involving almost 500,000 adults from the United Kingdom, a team of scientists from the University of Southampton and the University of Edinburgh...
Xanthohumol, a prenylated flavonoid produced by hops (Humulus lupulus), and its synthetic derivative, tetrahydroxanthohumol, can mitigate the diet-induced...
The combination of decaffeinated green tea extract and voluntary exercise can effectively mitigate nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, suggests a new study...
Fasting affects peripheral circadian clocks in the liver and skeletal muscle, causing them to rewire their metabolism, which can ultimately lead to improved...
Enterococcus gallinarum, a species of bacterium found in the small intestines of humans and mice, can travel to other organs and trigger an autoimmune...
Drinking three to four cups of coffee a day is associated with a lower risk of mortality and getting heart disease compared with drinking no coffee, according...
In a new study, Professor Gerald Shulman of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Yale and colleagues show that just three days of a very-low-calorie...
In a study in mice, a team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, has found that black tea alters energy metabolism in the liver...
A body of research putting type 2 diabetes patients on a low calorie diet has confirmed that the condition is reversible. For many patients it can be reversed...
According to a team of researchers from the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, a variety of organ systems, including liver and spleen, are involved...
