According to a new study published on 16 May in Cell Metabolism, people who ate ultra-processed foods consumed more calories than those on a minimally-processed diet – even though the
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Carelessly designed climate change mitigation policies could negatively affect food security placing an additional 160 million people at risk of hunger by 2050, according to a new study published on
On Monday, the German Ethics Council made public a 230-page report discussing their current position on human genome manipulation and in particular, germline editing. According to the press release published
Being overweight is no longer just an urban problem, as once thought. A new study published on 8 May in Nature suggests weight gain in rural areas may, in fact,
For the first time, researchers have analysed gene expression patterns of individual cells of patients with Alzheimer’s disease. In an early release of the study, published on 1 May in
A new paper published last month in Bioinformatics has presented a new statistical tool that can map population data faster and more accurately than previously (1). The new software, called
Australian researchers have discovered a potential antidote to the deadly box jellyfish sting. The paper, published on 30 April in Nature Communications, suggests a cholesterol-lowering drug can block symptoms in
Not all fat cells are the same, according to a new paper published on 30 April in Cell Reports. And the makeup of these seemingly diverse fat cell populations could
Environmental pollutants have a large impact on children’s health in Europe, according to a new study published last month in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (1).
The massive Human Genome Project launched nearly 30 years ago brought hope that scientists would finally decipher the root cause of human disease. However, reality has not quite met expectations,