Andy Proctor, University Professor emeritus in food science and a visiting professor at the University of Suffolk, spoke on ...

Gut bacteria are known to be a key factor in many health-related concerns. However, the number and variety of them is vast, ...

When tested on their own and in mice, these bacterial strains from the human microbiome show promise in accumulating PFAS ...

Growing interest in health and the exposome—a person's collective environmental exposures—is spurring new funding and ...

Organ-on-a-chip systems offer a more accurate, ethical, and scalable alternative to animal testing in drug discovery and ...

How do we determine how healthy our food is? We know now that our nutrition shouldn't just be measured in calories, or even ...

Discover how your stress response is actually working for you—and how imagination can help you adapt, even when the world ...

Researchers used advanced microscopy to uncover important protein structures. For the first time, two important protein ...

"This breakthrough study shows, for the first time, that click chemistry can be used inside the human body to activate cancer drugs at the tumor," said Jason S. Lewis, PhD, whose work as the Emily ...

"The significance of this work expands far beyond the current study, as it demonstrates that click chemistry can be harnessed inside the human body to redefine how therapeutics are activated in ...

Not a good “carbon footprint.” The second misconception is that ashes nourish the soil when buried or scattered. Human cremated remains are technically not ashes, but pulverized bone.

Collagen is a threadlike protein made up of three intertwined chains of amino acids, twisted into a triple-helix structure. It is the most abundant protein in the human body, making up 15–30% of the ...