A new review argues that obesity can be understood as a disorder of hepatic glucose and NADPH handling, in which the liver's ...

Humans carry around with them, often abundantly so, at least two kinds of fat tissue: white and brown. White fat cells are essentially inert containers for energy stored in the form of a single large, ...

Neural activity leads to the mobilization of energy from glycogen in astrocytes. A new paper reports that neurons have an ambivalent relationship with glycogen: they can synthesize it themselves, but ...

Glycogen serves as an essential energy reserve in the central nervous system, predominantly stored in astrocytes but also synthesised at low levels in neurons. Its synthesis is driven by glycogen ...

BEAM-301 Achieves Clinical Proof of Concept for Genetic Correction of R83C Mutation in GSDIaInitial Phase 1/2 Data Show Restoration of Endogenous ...

Ramon Sun, a biochemist at the University of Florida and corresponding author of the paper, studies metabolic pathways involved in diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Ewing sarcoma, and lung cancer.

When you run, your body burns a mixture of carbohydrate and fat. Your body stores carbohydrate as glycogen in your muscles and liver (the fitter you are the more you store), which is broken down to ...