Biochemistry
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Tomatoes offer affordable source of Parkinson’s disease drug
Scientists have produced a tomato enriched in the Parkinson's disease drug L-DOPA in what could become a new, affordable source of medicines.
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Scientists discover unique non-oxygen breathing animal
Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) have discovered a non-oxygen breathing animal. The tiny relative of the jellyfish is parasitic.
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Bacterial Protein Impairs Important Cellular Processes
Prof. Dr. Winfried Römer and his research team at the University of Freiburg have recently found that bacterial protein impairs important cellular processes
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How A Single Genetic Change in Gut Bacteria Can Affect our Metabolism
Gut flora or gut bacteria is the community of organism which lives in our digestive system. These microbes have incredible potential to affect our physiology, both in health and in diseases like the development of obesity and metabolic diseases such as diabetes. A new study showed changes in metabolism and reduction in weight gain in mice on deleting a single…
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Reason Why We Always Tempted By The Junk Food
The sweet candies chocolates and fried food which we try to keep away from, which are considered bad for our body but in weak moments we can’t help ourselves from munching on them. At Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne, scientists have found an explanation for this behavior, this food rich in carbohydrates and fats affect the reward…
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Pill Identic to Weight Loss Surgery-A Potential Treatment For Diabetes
Bariatric surgery is the weight loss surgery which helps in significant weight loss for long-term as well as recovery from diabetes type 2. Still, there is relatively less number of patient who undergoes this surgery despite having so many health benefits improvements in quality of life and diabetes remission. A new study published in Journal Nature Material led to the…
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Your Body’s Fat Cells seem to Memorize Your Unhealthy Diet
A new study done by the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen shows that it takes only 24 hours for the precursor fat cell to reprogram itself and drop out from the track of becoming a mature fat cell This reprogramming arises when cells come in contact with the fatty acid palmitate or…
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Researchers Unfolded the Structure of Enzyme ATP Synthase
The new study led by the team of researchers of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science has resolved the structure of enzyme which makes ATP i.e. mitochondrial ATP synthase structure. This research lifted the barrier to understanding their function in disease and drug mechanisms. ATP synthase is an enzyme that produces the energy storage molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP). As…
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