Sucrose is a vital energy source in plants. It also drives growth and serves as an important signaling molecule during stress ...

Watching other mice eat affects how much food mice consume, even when they are not hungry; this effect occurs only with palatable foods and may be mediated by dopamine signaling.

A new needle-type biosensor for detecting sucrose enables the real-time tracking of sugar uptake in plants, enabling better ...

A team of researchers from Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has ...

Sucrose, glucose, and fructose are three types of sugar that contain the same number of calories gram for gram. They’re all found naturally in fruits, vegetables, dairy products, and grains but ...

Researchers at the Advanced Research Unit on Metabolism, Development & Aging (ARUMDA), in the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR, Mumbai and TIFR Hyderabad), have unveiled a comprehensive ...

Sucrose is a disaccharide made of glucose and fructose. It’s commonly known as “table sugar” but it can be found naturally in fruits, vegetables, and nuts. However, ...

Consuming sucrose, the more “ natural form of sugar, ” may be as bad for your health as consuming high fructose corn syrup, according to a U niversity of C alifornia, Davis, study published in the ...

This post has been updated. It was originally published on 5/13/2019. High-fructose corn syrup has been a scapegoat for American obesity for the past decade and a half, so you might be surprised ...