Understanding how diet influences the genetic components of aging and age-related diseases could someday lead to treatments that trounce the ill effects of poor nutrition.
In a new PLoSOne publication, University of Missouri researchers demonstrate in mice that increased leptin exposure in utero affects vascular structure and vasodilation in the pups after birth.
A team led by JAX researcher Mauro Costa, Ph.D. has uncovered potential links between genetic heart defects and metabolism in adults. Their findings could be the first steps toward treatments to prevent the progression of heart failure.
Three Connecticut research institutions are partnering with a prestigious counterpart in Israel to fill a research void that exists in the area of metabolic diseases, such as obesity and diabetes, which affect billions of people worldwide.
Every day we carry around 10 times more microbial cells than our own. The makeup of our microbes is explaining why people with certain lifestyles are at risk for developing obesity, asthma and other common Western diseases.