Farmers around the world are devising sustainable production systems. For agroecological systems to be a solution, they must ...

A recent announcement by the Food and Drug Administration about natural thyroid treatment has readers of this newspaper column up in arms. Nearly 5 percent of American adults have a thyroid gland that ...

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A team from the University of Illinois has uncovered surprising evolutionary links between the genetic code and tiny protein ...

Scientists estimate chimps’ alcohol consumption for the first time, and find they seem to prefer boozier fruit.

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There's a molecule that our body makes from vitamin B5 that is critical for all of the metabolic processes essential for ...

Disease-resistant pigs, faster-growing fish and heat-tolerant cows are among a new class of animals that are being genetically engineered for the dining table. Similar meat products could soon be sold ...

The enteric nervous system (ENS), the largest division of autonomic nervous system, is a tantalizing frontier in neuroscience. With the advent of single-cell transcriptomics, the ENS has been ...

Declining Menin in the hypothalamus sparks inflammation and accelerates aging. Boosting Menin or supplementing with D-serine ...

Aging research is increasingly focused on proteins that regulate DNA repair, metabolism, cell survival and tissue renewal.