GROWING up, I remember my family often reminiscing about the fruits and vegetables of their youth. “They just do not taste the same anymore,” my mother would say as she bit into a store-bought tom ...

Researchers have developed a new gene switch that can be activated using a commercially available nitroglycerine patch applied to the skin. One day, researchers want to use switches of this kind to ...

Every baby food product packaged in jars, pouches, tubs and boxes sold in California must carry a QR code on its label that consumers can scan to check the most recent heavy metal readings, although ...

Although Chernobyl is the most well known, there are a host of other radioactive places in the world in countries including ...

Building soil health is one of the highest priorities for improving the overall environment, but cropland is not good for soil health. Importantly, according to the World Bank, 83 percent of existing ...

This is an audio transcript of the Political Fix podcast episode: ‘The right to die — who should have the final say?’ ...

Bad news for coffee lovers: you’re going to be paying more for your morning brew in 2025. Brazil and Vietnam are the world’s ...

Yale researchers have created "Ochre," a genomically recoded organism that enables the production of synthetic proteins with ...

Potential delays in clinical trials may result in extended timelines for new drug approvals, and a sudden reduction in ...

A combination of human pedigree analysis and fruit fly genetics has identified a gene variant that appears to prevent PIGA-CDG, a rare but serious seizure disorder. The findings could ultimately lead ...