The circadian clock in heart failure
Disrupting the rhythm of molecular clock protein Rev-erbα/β leads to heart failure in animal models.
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fat metabolism
Watch that smell! Scents can regulate fat storage
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
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
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
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