The very existence of the essential vitamin D, or “sunshine vitamin,” was not established until the present century, but its imprint upon history goes back a million years or more. According ...

Vitamin K is a group of fat-soluble vitamins required for the synthesis of proteins needed for blood coagulation and for the proteins required for calcium binding in bones and other tissues ...

Blood clotting is a complex, tightly regulated process involving numerous molecular steps and myriad biomolecules to carry them out, including vitamin K. While the medical field has capitalized on ...

Vitamin D exists in two forms, vitamin D2 and vitamin D3, which differ in the structure of their side chains that are known as ergocalciferol and cholecalciferol, respectively. Image Credit: Peter ...

THE term vitamin P was proposed by Armentano and his co-workers 1 to denote a group of compounds distinct from ascorbic acid that maintained the physical strength of capillaries. This concept grew ...

As researchers around the globe race to find effective treatments for the novel coronavirus, unfounded medical advice for how to cure COVID-19 has spread rapidly on social media. One such claim ...

An active metabolite of vitamin D—(not the over-the-counter version ... Majid Kazemian, assistant professor in the departments of Computer Science and Biochemistry at Purdue University, was co-lead ...

A landmark study on the topic by Donald Davis and his team of researchers from the University of Texas (UT) at Austin’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry was published in December 2004 in ...

He coined the phrase "vitamin,” to describe it. Funk realized there were probably other compounds that had potential to fight certain health deficiencies. Between the time of his discovery, until 1948 ...