Iron is an essential trace element in biological cells. The concentration of the element and its so-called redox state—it can ...

In order to understand metabolic processes, it is important to be able to detect critical individual elements and metabolites in living organisms. Researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

The German physiologist and biochemist won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1931 for discovering that sugar allows cancer cells ...