A plant-based diet could improve the resilience of our food system. Moving to such a diet in the European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (U.K.) alone could replace almost all the production losses from Russia and Ukraine. ...
Environment
Nov 15, 2022
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Children draw strongly upon moral principles and concerns when they consider whether it is right or wrong to consume meat and animal products.
Social Sciences
Nov 10, 2022
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Model organisms are essential for biomedical research and have enabled many important scientific discoveries. The ability to sequence the genomes of these models is a powerful tool to study the genetic factors that impact ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 9, 2022
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Two weeks of eating a diet heavy in tomatoes increased the diversity of gut microbes and altered gut bacteria toward a more favorable profile in young pigs, researchers found.
Plants & Animals
Nov 8, 2022
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Imagine that you have an unhealthy interest in your neighbors' lives. Unable to ask them directly, you rifle through their rubbish bins. You find the bones of cooked chickens and try and work out what else they eat.
Archaeology
Nov 4, 2022
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A new analysis reveals significant gaps in evidence related to the sustainability claims of new food technologies such as vertical farming, blockchain, food deliveries and plant-based alternatives to animal products.
Biotechnology
Nov 3, 2022
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Maternal consumption of a Western-style diet alters the transcriptional landscape of fetal blood stem cells in rhesus macaques, researchers report November 3 in the journal Stem Cell Reports.
Plants & Animals
Nov 3, 2022
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Polar cod is an important part of the food web of the Arctic. Sarah Maes (KU Leuven) and Fokje Schaafsma (Wageningen Marine Research) investigated the diet of polar cod from the Barents Sea, with the help of colleagues from ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 31, 2022
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Cave paintings from the Lascaux complex in France to Ubirr in Australia have one characteristic in common—they depict hunters and their prey. Very few of our Paleolithic ancestors seemed interested in doing still-life paintings ...
Archaeology
Oct 27, 2022
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Researchers studying the teeth of an elderly woman who lived 2,000 years ago have charted her diet from infancy to just before her death.
Archaeology
Oct 26, 2022
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