basal metabolic rate, which is the amount of energy your body uses to keep itself running when at rest. It usually accounts ...

UW Senior Research Scientist Silvia Sanchez-Martinez, left, and Department of Molecular Biology Assistant Professor Thomas Boothby led new research providing additional evidence that tardigrade ...

Human metabolism is a complex web of chemical processes and interactions between our cells and the microbes living within us. The more scientists can identify and classify the molecules involved in ...

The contribution of genetics to the variability in people’s metabolism has remained largely unknown. This is, in part, because genetic studies of human metabolism have been limited in scale and ...

This article explores the intersection between drinking and nutrition to reveal how alcohol-induced malnutrition can ...

Two people can drink the same amount of alcohol at the same time and still show very different readings on a breath test.

Xenobiotic metabolism in human skin is a multifaceted process involving a network of phase I and phase II enzymatic pathways that modulate the biotransformation of externally applied chemicals such as ...

Melanie R. McReynolds receives funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program Faculty Phase and the Burroughs Welcome Fund PDEP Transition to Faculty. Aging is a ...

Researchers built an automated mass spectrometry and molecular mapping platform to track how human liver cells process ...