This photograph shows how by reorganizing the genetic combinations of tomato fruit yield increasing mutations, researchers achieved weakly branched flower-bearing shoots that gave higher yield.
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Tomatoes have come a long way from their origins as pea-sized berries due...
Milking cow (stock image).
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It is a known fact that microbes on farms protect children from asthma and allergies. But even non-microbial molecules can have a protective effect: Immunologists from the University of Zurich have shown...
Evidence is mounting that a diet mimicking the effects of fasting has health benefits beyond weight loss, with a new USC-led study indicating that it may reduce symptoms of multiple sclerosis.
Scientists discovered that the diet triggers a death-and-life process...
50 per cent of baby rice food products still contain an illegal level of inorganic arsenic, say British researchers.
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In January 2016, the EU imposed a maximum limit of inorganic arsenic on manufacturers in a bid...
What is your comfort food?
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A big bowl of mashed potatoes. What about spaghetti and meatballs? Sushi? Regardless of what you identify as comfort food, it's likely the attraction to that dish is based on having...
Consuming grapes twice a day for six months protected against significant metabolic decline in Alzheimer-related areas of the brain in a study of people with early memory decline. Image credit: Flickr/Zoi Koraki
Consuming grapes twice a day for six months...
Gluten-free products often contain rice flour as a substitute for wheat. Rice is known to bioaccumulate certain toxic metals, including arsenic and mercury from fertilizers, soil, or water, but little is known about the health effects of diets high...
Butter consumption was only weakly associated with total mortality, not associated with cardiovascular disease, and slightly inversely associated (protective) with diabetes, according to a new epidemiological study which analyzed the association of butter consumption with chronic disease and all-cause...
David Killilea, PhD, a staff scientist at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI), co-authored a study into the causes of kidney stones. The study was conducted by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), in collaboration with the Buck...
Almost everyone agrees that most store-bought tomatoes don't have much flavor. Now, scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) may have spotlighted the solution in a paper just published in Nature Genetics.
Molecular biologist James...
Researchers argued that sugar-free versions of drinks may be no better for weight loss or preventing weight gain than their full sugar counterparts, and may also be detrimental to the environment.Image Credit: Flickr/soumya_p
Sugar-free and "diet" drinks are often seen...
