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Supplement companies add chromium to multivitamins, touting its advantages, but 80 years of research suggests this shiny metal has no proven health benefits.

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Mucus-Eating Gut Bacteria May Promote Fever After Cancer Treatment

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Beyond Individual Nutrients: Complex Diet and Cancer Connections

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5-Star Rating System Ranks the Validity of Health Advice

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Opinion: Changing When and How Much We Eat May Extend Healthspan

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Book Excerpt from Anxious Eaters: Why We Fall for Fad Diets

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Understanding Cannibalism in Bears: Do Bears Eat Other Bears?

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Opinion: Why We Fall for Fad Diets

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Science Snapshot: When Pregnant Flies Crave Ice Cream and Pickles

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Different Dietary Fibers Affect the Body in Unique Ways

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How a Forensic Biologist Exposed a DNA Lab Scandal That Shook Australia

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Universe 25 Experiment

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One Gene Influences 75 Percent of Alzheimer’s Disease Cases

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Postdoc Portrait: Rohita Roy

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From Data to Discovery: Omics in Therapeutic Innovation

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Exploring Organoids for Disease Modeling Research

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A Stubborn Gene, a Failed Experiment, and a New Path

When experiments refuse to cooperate, you try again and again. For Rafael Najmanovich, the setbacks ultimately pushed him in a new direction.

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Ensuring Regulatory Compliance in AAV Manufacturing with Analytical Ultracentrifugation

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Maximizing Cancer Research Model Systems

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