We’ve all been told that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, but research shows that a it may also help regrow ...

A study found that the naturally occurring sugar 2-deoxy-D-ribose stimulated new blood vessel growth and hair regrowth in a testosterone-driven baldness model in mice, performing as well as minoxidil.

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 ...