The glucose transporter GLUT1 catalyses facilitative diffusion of glucose into erythrocytes and is responsible for glucose supply to the brain and other organs. Dysfunctional mutations may lead to ...

A new study from Imperial has shown that the physical structure of food influences the hormones released as part of digestion ...

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 ...

A poor diet can eat away at brain health. Now a study in Neurology helps elucidate why. It suggests that eating a lot of sugar or other carbohydrates can be hazardous to both brain structure and ...

Learn about the formation and function of proteins and how enzymes increase the rate of biological reactions. BBC Bitesize Scotland SQA National 5 Biology.

This diagram shows the metabolism of glucose in plants - how glucose can be made from starch, lipids and amino acids, and is used in the process of respiration. Metabolism in animals.