food

The biotech industry is chipping away at the obstacles standing between the lab and the dinner plate.

A New York Times investigation’s failure to amplify tuna DNA from Subway’s tuna salad sandwiches likely says more about the complexities of identifying processed fish than about the ingredients.

Over centuries of cultivating Saccharomyces cerevisiae to make dough, bakers have put selective pressure on the species, causing it to diverge into two distinct groups, according to the authors.

Experts fear the fungal pathogen will spread to other African countries, threatening wheat production.

Parrots aid each other in getting food from a researcher.

Scientists track the spice from the soil to the market to pinpoint the source of contamination in pregnant women’s blood.

Men had better fat-burning results when they had breakfast after cycling instead of beforehand.

The FDA recently cleared the way for marketing of the genetically modified product. Texas A&M’s Keerti Rathore speaks with The Scientist about why and how it was developed.

Scientists extracted 4,500-year-old yeast from Egyptian pottery to use in breadmaking.

Archaeologists find ring-shaped objects made from grains at a site in Austria thought to date back to 960 BCE.

Drastic dietary changes during the agricultural revolution altered the configuration of the human bite, paving the way for new sounds in spoken language, a new study finds.

A Minnesota-based company reports the sale of a soybean oil engineered to have greater stability and no trans-fat.

Despite previous positive reports, researchers didn’t see transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) cut back on people’s urges or eating.

The modification beefed up plant biomass by 40 percent in field tests.

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.