After a century of false starts, scientists believe they have found a way to make cells burn more energy without the ...

Cells spend energy not just on reactions, but on control. New research explains why staying stable comes with an unseen ...

Human bodies are usually described as chemical engines, powered by glucose and oxygen. Yet a wave of new research suggests ...

Inside every living cell, proteins and membranes are in constant motion, reshaping, colliding, and flexing as they keep an ...

Cells manage a wide range of functions in their tiny package — growing, moving, housekeeping, and so on — and most of those functions require energy. But how do cells get this energy in the first ...

Researchers have developed experimental compounds that make cells burn more calories by subtly tweaking how mitochondria ...

Two complementary studies reveal how an insufficient supply of energy in macrophages, key immune cells in artery walls, ...

Scientists may have found a safer way to make cells burn more calories—by turning up the heat inside our cellular power plants.

Peptides have emerged as critical tools in the investigation of physiological homeostasis, specifically in how biological systems manage energy substrates and recover from physical trauma. By ...

Living cells pay a hidden energy price not just to run chemical reactions, but to keep them on track and block all the ...

Weight loss feeling harder than it should? Your body isn’t broken, but the old advice about how it spends energy might be ...