Nature Chemical Biology - The 2009 ESBOC meeting covered advances in synthesis, biosynthesis and biological mechanisms of vitamins and cofactors. Recent exciting developments in the field include ...

Vitamins and minerals help the body to use other nutrients efficiently. Examples of vitamins include vitamin A which is vital for good eyesight and vitamin K which helps the blood to clot.

Ergothioneine is part of a group of compounds dubbed ‘longevity vitamins’ by the likes of Bruce Ames, a well-known expert in ageing and professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Emeritus ...

"This may be why vitamin A's effects on tissue biology have been so elusive," Fuchs says. One result of retinol biology ...