It turns out your mouth may know more about your metabolism than your bathroom scale. New research shows that people with ...

Humanity continuously emits greenhouse gases and thereby worsens global warming. Increasing research efforts go into developing strategies to convert these gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), into ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland and National Institutes of Health have identified the microbial enzyme responsible for giving urine its yellow hue, according to a new study published in the ...

In the 1950s, Dupont developed per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS, which were integrated into a huge array of products over the next decades, including cooking pans, popcorn bags, pizza boxes ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Microbiology, a group of researchers identified and characterized BilR, a novel gut microbiota-derived enzyme, and explored its role in the reduction ...

A growing body of research suggests that gut bacteria can change how the body uses nutrients in ways that matter for cancer. In one study, a single dietary amino acid acted like a switch, feeding ...

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Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed software that reduces the time needed ...

Selmihan Sahin and Ross Milton from the University of Geneva are specialists in electrochemistry. They use electrodes connected to electric current to perform chemical reactions. The electrode-based ...