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Scientists have found traces of the dairy product in 7,200-year-old pottery in Croatia.

In mice, seeing and smelling food causes immediate cellular changes that ready the liver to convert incoming amino acids to proteins.

While farmers have the green light to grow the genetically engineered plant, FDA approval is still needed before the seeds are sold as food.

Conceived as a way to resolve differences between government regulators and academics over the chemical’s effects, the CLARITY-BPA collaboration instead highlights divisions.

Tens of thousands of hogs are being slaughtered to stop its spread.

Problems with Brian Wansink’s research articles surfaced in 2017 and have now resulted in 13 retractions total.

The European Court of Justice has decided that organisms made with precision techniques such as CRISPR will be subject to the same rules as transgenic plants or animals.

Life is filled with pleasure and pain. Science and society are struggling mightily with both.

Women who ate more produce known to harbor pesticides were less likely to succeed with fertility treatment than women who ate fewer of these fruits and vegetables.

Fruit flies and mice grow better and eat less when the amino acid balance of their food reflects that coded by their exomes.

See how scientists designed food with amino acid compositions based on protein-coding regions in the genomes of mice and fruit flies.

Thirty percent of bacteria found in babies' guts came from mothers' milk, a study finds.

One person’s quest to get to the bottom of the unique way he experiences food

Overcooked potatoes and burnt toast contain acrylamide, a potential carcinogen that researchers have struggled to reliably link to human cancers.

A sequencing blitz on the tomato genome reveals the genes that contribute most to tastiness.

Egg and peanut consumption during infancy is linked to lower risk of allergy to those foods later in life, according to a meta-analysis.

Bacteria in the intestine produce proteins that stop rodents from eating.

Glucose activates sleep-promoting neurons in the mouse hypothalamus.

And a diet that includes a few days of caloric restriction each month reduces biomarkers of aging and disease in people, according to a small trial.

The earthiness of Merlot may have to do with grapevine-dwelling microbiota.