GLP-1s are building a reputation as "wonder drugs." First characterized for their ability to improve insulin release and treat diabetes, the drugs were later found to promote weight loss and improve ...

Human genes are written in long strings of three-letter units composed of four different nucleotides. These units—or ...

Inside a diseased cell, the genes are in chaos. Some are receiving signals to overproduce a protein. Others are reducing ...

Researchers still do not have a comprehensive picture of the factors that influence gene expression in human cancers. Understanding gene expression in cancer is important because it can reveal how the ...

Researchers have identified a distinct and reproducible gene expression program associated with neurotransmission in the ...

Nutrigenomics is the scientific field that studies how human genetics and nutrition interact and how they affect a person’s health, well-being, and proneness to disease. The body responds to food and ...

This article explains how diet creates sustained epigenetic changes that affect long-term health, disease risk, aging, and ...

Small (left) and large (right) condensates of the Mediator complex inside nuclei of a pancreatic beta cell-derived cell line. Salk researchers discovered that GLP-1s interact with the multi-protein ...