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The circadian clock in heart failure

February 3, 2022February 3, 2022chronotherapy, circadian clock, fat metabolism, heart failure, obesity paradox, Research, Rev-erbα/β, sugar metabolism

Disrupting the rhythm of molecular clock protein Rev-erbα/β leads to heart failure in animal models.

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Watch that smell! Scents can regulate fat storage

April 9, 2020April 9, 2020C. elegans, fat metabolism, fat storage, odors, olfaction, Research, sense of smell

Dr. Ayse Sena Mutlu, a postdoctoral fellow at Baylor’s Huffington Center On Aging, had an intriguing question. Is it possible to change the body’s fat

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A worm’s lessons for living a longer, healthier life

February 26, 2019February 26, 2019Aging, C. elegans, fat metabolism, Longevity, lysosomes, metabolic signaling, mitochondria, oxidative tolerance, Research, sugar metabolism

Caenorhabditis elegans is a seemingly unimpressive worm. It is as long as a penny is thick, it lives in the soil feeding on microbes it

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Bacteria and mitochondria have a common language

July 20, 2017C. elegans, fat metabolism, Hedgehog, microbiome, mitochondria, NR5A, Patched

It’s not news that microbes can alter the physiology of the organisms in which they live, but the actual molecular mechanisms that mediate their interactions