Nowadays, the prevalence of sedentary lifestyles and high-caloric diets leads to an imbalance between energy intake and spending. Hence, in the last decades, we have observed a significant rise in ...

Researchers at the Salk Institute report they might have solved the long-standing mystery around how the protein complex AMPK can both hinder and help cancer. The lab of Reuben Shaw, Ph.D., director ...

The catalytic α subunit of AMPK exists in two isoforms, α1 and α2, encoded by distinct genes. While these isoforms share ...