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Food processing
Food processing encompasses any process that modifies or alters food from its natural state. Types of food processing include canning, freezing, drying, pasteurization, and fermenting.
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JAN 12, 2017Clinical & Molecular DX
Forget counting years and birthdays. Researchers find that to accurately know how old you are biologically, look no furt ...JAN 07, 2017Microbiology
The antibacterial properties of heavy metals have been appreciated for some time, but how the heck do they work? This so ...Written By: Kerry EvansJAN 05, 2017Plants & Animals
Just as human juveniles happen to lose their baby teeth to make way for much larger and stringer adult teeth, scientists ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 04, 2017Plants & Animals
We regularly track animals in the wild to see how they live and study their behavior, and while some species of animals ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 16, 2016Microbiology
If you don’t love amoebas, there’s something wrong with you. Amoebas are adorable, little single-cell ...Written By: Kerry EvansDEC 14, 2016Microbiology
Soil is rich with microbial life, and fungi within the soil provide bacteria with a matrix for movement and gene transfe ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 13, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Brains are complex; studying brain function often involve simple organisms, like honeybees, which provided a finding tha ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 05, 2016Microbiology
Researchers working at the Karolinska Institutet have made a breakthrough that will aid scientists studying biofilms. Th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 29, 2016Videos
Americans throw out about 40 percent of our foods. This translates to a loss of $165 billion each year. On top of that, ...NOV 23, 2016Microbiology
There is a rich community of microbes residing in the gastrointestinal tracts of animals including humans, the microbiom ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 23, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Reporting in Nature Medicine, researchers have been able to use stem cells to make intestinal organoids with functional ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 23, 2016Plants & Animals
Russia’s Yamal Peninsula in northwestern Siberia, is perhaps the most productive reindeer-herding region in the wo ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanNOV 23, 2016Neuroscience
It’s almost time to belly up to the table and start wolfing down a huge meal. It’s part of a Thanksgiving tr ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimNOV 22, 2016Plants & Animals
A unique kind of lizard known as the thorny devil, or also called the thorny dragon, is able to live in intensely dry an ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 09, 2016Earth & The Environment
What do you do with your food waste? Most people’s waste goes into the trash bin and then they don’t think a ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanNOV 07, 2016Cancer
Emulsifiers, common food additives used to enhance the smoothness of food textures, have been linked to colon cancer in ...NOV 05, 2016Videos
According to the Centers for Disease Control, although it remains rare in the United States and other parts of the devel ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 05, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
New research published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry outlines how certain cells in the intestine, enterocytes, ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 04, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
In a rare medical case, doctors determined that a man’s sudden onset of acute hepatitis – inflammation of th ...NOV 01, 2016Earth & The Environment
By unanimous vote, the first committee on the Navajo Nation Council voted down the bill to authorize the Grand Canyon Es ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanNOV 01, 2016Microbiology
A new study from the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University (USDA HNRCA) has shown ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 24, 2016Plants & Animals
Scientists know that a variety of animal species actually use tools, just like we do, to make life easier, but it’ ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 19, 2016Neuroscience
Hungry? It’s all in your head. Regulating appetite is a popular area of research within neuroscience. With the gro ...Written By: Brenda Kelley Kim
JAN 12, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
Forget counting years and birthdays. Researchers find that to accurately know how old you are biologically, look no furt
...
JAN 07, 2017
Microbiology
The antibacterial properties of heavy metals have been appreciated for some time, but how the heck do they work? This so
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JAN 05, 2017
Plants & Animals
Just as human juveniles happen to lose their baby teeth to make way for much larger and stringer adult teeth, scientists
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 04, 2017
Plants & Animals
We regularly track animals in the wild to see how they live and study their behavior, and while some species of animals
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 16, 2016
Microbiology
If you don’t love amoebas, there’s something wrong with you. Amoebas are adorable, little single-cell
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
DEC 14, 2016
Microbiology
Soil is rich with microbial life, and fungi within the soil provide bacteria with a matrix for movement and gene transfe
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 13, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Brains are complex; studying brain function often involve simple organisms, like honeybees, which provided a finding tha
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 05, 2016
Microbiology
Researchers working at the Karolinska Institutet have made a breakthrough that will aid scientists studying biofilms. Th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 29, 2016
Videos
Americans throw out about 40 percent of our foods. This translates to a loss of $165 billion each year. On top of that,
...
NOV 23, 2016
Microbiology
There is a rich community of microbes residing in the gastrointestinal tracts of animals including humans, the microbiom
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 23, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Reporting in Nature Medicine, researchers have been able to use stem cells to make intestinal organoids with functional
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 23, 2016
Plants & Animals
Russia’s Yamal Peninsula in northwestern Siberia, is perhaps the most productive reindeer-herding region in the wo
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 23, 2016
Neuroscience
It’s almost time to belly up to the table and start wolfing down a huge meal. It’s part of a Thanksgiving tr
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 22, 2016
Plants & Animals
A unique kind of lizard known as the thorny devil, or also called the thorny dragon, is able to live in intensely dry an
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 09, 2016
Earth & The Environment
What do you do with your food waste? Most people’s waste goes into the trash bin and then they don’t think a
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 07, 2016
Cancer
Emulsifiers, common food additives used to enhance the smoothness of food textures, have been linked to colon cancer in
...
NOV 05, 2016
Videos
According to the Centers for Disease Control, although it remains rare in the United States and other parts of the devel
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 05, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
New research published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry outlines how certain cells in the intestine, enterocytes,
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 04, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
In a rare medical case, doctors determined that a man’s sudden onset of acute hepatitis – inflammation of th
...
NOV 01, 2016
Earth & The Environment
By unanimous vote, the first committee on the Navajo Nation Council voted down the bill to authorize the Grand Canyon Es
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 01, 2016
Microbiology
A new study from the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University (USDA HNRCA) has shown
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 24, 2016
Plants & Animals
Scientists know that a variety of animal species actually use tools, just like we do, to make life easier, but it’
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 19, 2016
Neuroscience
Hungry? It’s all in your head. Regulating appetite is a popular area of research within neuroscience. With the gro
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim