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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.