Current policies for guaranteeing food security emphasize the importance of farmland, but forests play critical roles as well. Forested areas can help communities that rely on wild foods to diversify their diets and meet ...
Ecology
Mar 16, 2022
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New research has identified more than 1,000 edible plants that could address vitamin B deficiencies for thousands of people.
Plants & Animals
Feb 24, 2022
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Your gut bacteria need vitamin B12 just as much as you do. Though DNA is usually passed from parent to child, new research shows gut bacteria transfer genes through "sex" in order to take their vitamins.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 1, 2022
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The cremation process destroys a lot of information that can usually be obtained from the human skeleton. Diseases are especially difficult to observe. This has caused a paucity in our knowledge of the disease load in populations ...
Archaeology
Oct 25, 2021
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Many natural products are complicated organic molecules. Despite this complexity, scientists are usually able to investigate them using spectroscopic techniques. However, a team of researchers has now discovered that care ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 23, 2021
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Chemical additives used in plastic production have been found in herring gull eggs, new research shows.
Ecology
Jun 17, 2021
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A new study published in Scientific Reports has found that methylene blue, a century-old medicine, has the potential to be a highly effective, broad-spectrum UV irradiation protector that absorbs UVA and UVB, repairs ROS ...
Biochemistry
May 28, 2021
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Researchers have genetically engineered a probiotic yeast to produce beta-carotene in the guts of laboratory mice. The advance demonstrates the utility of work the researchers have done to detail how a suite of genetic engineering ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 12, 2021
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While urban agriculture can play a role in supporting food supply chains for many major American cities—contributing to food diversity, sustainability and localizing food systems—it is unrealistic to expect rooftop gardens, ...
Environment
Mar 25, 2021
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The latest developments in fluorescence microscopy make it possible to image individual molecules in cells or molecular complexes with a spatial resolution of up to 20 nanometres. However, under certain circumstances, an ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 26, 2021
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