The absolute risk for thyroid cancer is low among patients receiving glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) therapy, but risk is elevated in the first year of treatment, according to a ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed an AI-based platform that designs short proteins, termed peptides, ...

Proteins, the pillars of cellular function, often assemble into 'complexes' to fulfill their functions. A study reveals why this assembly often begins during the very process of protein synthesis or ...

FGF21 is a mediator of the fasting response that increases glucose uptake, improves insulin sensitivity and reduces serum glucagon and triglyceride levels. In contrast to FGF19, FGF21 is not ...

Fatty acids are organic acids with at least one carboxyl (-C(=O)OH, -COOH or -CO2H) group and a long carbon chain that can be joined by double bonds, as in unsaturated fatty acids, or single bonds ...

Credit: Natural History Museum, London/Tobias Salge and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Public Domain Another unexpected find had to do with the way the amino acid structures were oriented ...

Uric acid is a waste product found in urine. If your body makes too much or doesn't eliminate enough of it, uric acid levels can become too high—a condition known as hyperuricemia. High uric acid ...