Circadian research reveals promising combination therapy in preventing liver cancer
Recent research from the lab of Kristin Eckel-Mahan, PhD, associate professor in the Institute of Molecular Medicine’s Center for Metabolic and Degenerative Diseases, reveals how a standard therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) combined with a natural molecule called nobiletin can…
NIH grant funds Houston Nutrition Obesity Research Center
The National Institutes of Health awarded a five-year, $5.9 million P30 grant to a collaborative team of investigators, including Kristin Eckel-Mahan, PhD, associate professor in the Center for Metabolic and Degenerative Diseases, to establish the Houston Nutrition Obesity Research Center…
Kolonin publishes research on role of telomerase in metabolic health
The laboratory of Mikhail Kolonin, PhD, published a new report, “Caloric Restriction and Telomere Preservation in TERT Knockout Adipocyte Progenitors Does Not Rescue from Metabolic Dysfunction due to a TERT Function in Adipocyte Mitochondria” in Aging Cell (external link), which studied…