Around the world, more than 2 million tons of citric acid is made every year. It's made by fermenting sugars such as molasses and corn starch by Aspergillus niger, which is a type of fungus or mold.

Sugars come in all shapes and sizes. We need them for energy and we enjoy them, but complex variants may also be used as ...

Using a deep-learning computer model, they found that D-alanine boosts the activity of genes related to both gluconeogenesis ...

The observation that inhibition of uric acid synthesis prevented metabolic syndrome and hepatic steatosis leads to the question of how uric acid might contribute to insulin resistance and diabetes.

A team of researchers studied the properties of membranes to understand how these cellular structures influenced the chemistry of life on Earth as it began.

The intake of added sugars, such as from table sugar (sucrose) and high-fructose corn syrup has increased dramatically in the last hundred years and correlates closely with the rise in obesity ...