How did you discover MCBAs? Bile acids were first described chemically in 1849, and Heinrich Wieland was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1927 for comprehensively describing their chemistry. This ...

Now, work led by Sheng-Cai Lin, Chen-Song Zhang, and Xianming Deng of Xiamen University in China links the benefits of calorie restriction to a bile acid called lithocholic acid, which works by ...

David Sinclair with Harvard Medical School has published a News & Views piece in the same journal issue giving a short history of the search for factors ... acid (LCA), a bile acid created by ...