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The best time to take digestive enzymes is usually within the first few bites of a meal, Dr. Bedford says. “You want the enzymes to be mixed in with the food as digestion begins,” he says. (In the ...

Scientists discovered that alcohol activates a sugar-producing pathway in the body, creating fructose that may reinforce ...

Most of the enzymes involved in drug metabolism are present in the liver. This means the liver plays a key role in drug metabolism. Drug metabolism occurs when the body chemically alters drugs so it ...

Proteins that respond to external stimuli function as molecular switches, playing a vital role in the precise regulation of biological processes. Therefore, if protein switches could be artificially ...

New research links America's most popular cooking oil to obesity through metabolic pathways that convert fatty acids into ...

The human body is a complex organism, made up of trillions of cells. But not all of them are human — about half of them are fungi, microbes and bacteria. Scientists are starting to understand how and ...