Q: I've been using powdered ribose, which was recommended by my personal trainer. It seems to be helping my energy, but I am worried about so much sugar in my diet. Is it OK to use it every day? A: ...

Some ill-advised folks might say that the greatest nutritional discovery of the past decade has been the Baconator (a whopping 830 calories -- we don't think so). The real nutritional hero: ribose.

In a recent study published in Nature Metabolism, researchers attempted to identify new genes and molecular pathways that might supply energy when the availability of glucose or other nutrients is ...

Fatigue is one of the biggest problems of modern life, but we're trying to fix that problem in all the wrong ways. Trying to "get" or "find" energy is like trying to grab a fistful of water. If you ...

What made ribose the sugar of choice for life's code? Scientists at Scripps Research may have cracked a major part of this mystery. Their experiments show that ribose binds more readily and ...

In living organisms today, complex molecules like RNA and DNA are constructed with the help of enzymes. So how did these molecules form before life (and enzymes) existed? Why did some molecules end up ...