Metabolism is a key process in living things that enables fuel to be turned into energy, but its evolutionary origin is a long-standing enigma. Now, a study by US researchers has found a simple ...

Sir Hans Adolf Krebs was born at Hildesheim, Germany, on August 25th, 1900. Krebs is a German-born British biochemist who received the 1953 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine along with Fritz ...

The Nobel Prize medal awarded to British biochemist Hans Krebs sold in auction this week (July 14) for £225,000 (around $351,225), according to BBC News. Krebs, who died in 1981, shared the Nobel ...

A new study identifies recessive, loss-of-function mutations in IDH3B, encoding a subunit of the NAD-specific isocitrate dehydrogenase, in individuals with retinitis pigmentosa. The lack of any ...

As longtime fans of both Macklemore and metabolism pathways (weird combo, we know, but whatever), we’re pretty damn excited about this “Thrift Shop” parody by Wilson Lam. You should be, too, ...

Scientists think about 3.8 billion years ago, a cocktail of organic compounds managed to come together in some way to create the first life. We know it was primitive and dumb, but still — it was life!

THE role of the tricarboxylic acid cycle in the metabolism of micro-organisms has been investigated by many authors with contradictory results, and the question has been recently reviewed by Krebs 1.