Can GLP-1 drugs for obesity and diabetes, like Ozempic and Wegovy, help change the food industry? Consumers on these drugs experience a decline in their appetite and their appeal for sugary snacks filled with fats and sodium. Could this inspire consumer products companies to create healthier snacks?

CRISPR has the potential to treat or even cure a gamut of inherited diseases which have long evaded researchers.

Research suggests that humans evolved to have larger buttocks compared to other mammals because we primarily walk on two legs.

Using a swab inside the cheek and a sophisticated computer algorithm, a DNA test recently approved by federal regulators promises to assess genetic risk of opioid addiction. The test’s maker says results give doctors and patients a crucial tool when considering use of the very pain pills that ignited the nation’s opioid crisis.

In new research, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, scientists looked at how diets containing real meat compare to those using plant-based meat alternatives, especially in terms of cardiovascular health and diabetes risk.

itamin B1 is an essential micronutrient for human beings. Its deficiency is the cause of numerous diseases of the nervous and cardiovascular systems. Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), in collaboration with teams at ETH Zurich and Taiwan’s National Chung Hsing University (NCHU), have achieved a significant advance in the fight against vitamin B1 … Read more

Releasing genetically modified organisms into the environment and placing them on the EU market as food or feed is subject to authorisation under EU legislation.[1] Organisms produced by means of ‘mutagenesis’[2] do not require authorisation as they were considered safe when the EU legislation was adopted.[3]

It was three months ago when we wrote about the surge of the H5N1 bird flu strain that had by then already killed tens of millions of birds in various parts of the U.S. and land and marine animals in other countries. Surprising experts, the flu jumped to cows and goats last month. And now it has been detected very high concentrations in raw milk from infected animals, the World Health Organization announced late last week.

Cancer is a catch-all for hundreds of unique diseases, which develop when cells in your body no longer listen to normal cues and start to grow out of control.

It took humans 134 years to discover Norn cells. Last summer, computers in California discovered them on their own in just six weeks. The discovery came about when researchers at Stanford programmed the computers to teach themselves biology.