Our bodies perform many critical metabolic reactions, using a wide range of enzymes and other molecules. When there is a ...

The human body cannot produce vitamin B2—also known as riboflavin—itself; it must absorb the important substance through diet ...

A lack of vitamin B2 makes tumour cells more susceptible to a unique form of cell death. This was discovered by researchers at the Rudolf Virchow Centre at the University of Würzburg.

Vitamins are ubiquitous in medicine cabinets everywhere, with more than half of all U.S. adults regularly taking vitamins or other dietary supplements to boost their health. But the science of ...

The study adds to growing evidence that older adults might benefit from taking multivitamins, especially if their diet is lacking nutrients.

Scientists at Gladstone Institutes have flipped the traditional approach to finding potential treatments for deadly diseases. Instead of starting with a disease and hunting for a cure, they began with ...

Researchers have known that vitamin K has antioxidant properties, but the mechanism behind that function remained obscure; 'antioxidant' is a general term for chemicals that can prevent or delay some ...

Then the evidence started piling up. Dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman noticed chickens fed polished rice developed beriberi-like paralysis, cured by adding back the husks. It was the first clue that ...

Sea cucumbers (Apostichopus japonicus) have been slowly disappearing from ocean floors over the last few decades, mostly due to overfishing for food and medicinal purposes. Despite their name, sea ...

A pioneering research-industry partnership has used advances in indoor farming technology to grow pea shoots fortified with vitamin B12, opening an exciting route to market for farmers and addressing ...