New work focuses on the accumulation of triglyceride and a certain kind of steroids called sterols during oocyte development. They were able to identify an insect steroid hormone that is crucial to ...

Auxin-induced pea (Pisum sativum) stem section elongation is enhanced at levels of 3 to 40 micromolar by six new classes of alkane derivatives additional to those described earlier, providing that ...

The task of the cells that make up our bodies is metabolism—the process of chemically transforming sugars, amino acids, nucleotides, lipids, steroids, and other molecules in ways that ultimately allow ...

2 Department of Movement Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands 3 Department of Endocrinology, University Hospital Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands Correspondence to: Dr ...

Bioactive lipid signaling allows individual cells within the body to 'see' the surrounding environment and to respond in ways that will benefit the whole organism. Successful drug development for ...