Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

Researchers combined hyperspectral Raman imaging with machine learning to chart Alzheimer’s-related chemistry across entire ...

Rice University scientists have developed the first complete, label-free molecular atlas of the Alzheimer’s brain in an ...

Learn how herbal supplements can lower cholesterol, and what you can expect in terms of benefits and side effects.

Highly exposed people have begun taking cholestyramine, but experts caution that evidence is lacking on whether the treatment ...

Cholesterol is a key building block for testosterone. Through a process called steroidogenesis, cholesterol sets the stage for testosterone creation in the Leydig cells found in the testes.

Your toothpaste is a mixture of different chemical compounds, not a single compound. It contains abrasives, fluorides, foaming agents, sweeteners, flavourings, and water. All of these are combined to ...

Chances are, your cholesterol isn’t something you think too much about. When it comes to your health, your thoughts may already be preoccupied with figuring out more ways to get protein, how to get ...

The U.S. has a cholesterol problem. Roughly 37% of Americans have high cholesterol, a statistic that’s likely underreported, considering that, according to a 2023 study, many people with high ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A team of researchers led by University of California, Riverside biomedical scientists has identified a small, previously overlooked small RNA molecule that plays a major role in ...

Your cholesterol levels—whether they are in range or dangerously high—are a key indicator of your risk of developing heart disease. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...

Elaine Chen covers biotech, co-writes The Readout newsletter, and co-hosts STAT’s weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud. You can reach Elaine on Signal at elaineywchen.70. Structure Therapeutics ...