Ignoring an unhealthy craving is easy
Claire Turnbull has six science-backed tips for keeping those tempting but unwholesome foods and drinks at bay. Whether…
Bioactive molecules unearthed by terabase-scale long-read sequencing of a soil metagenome
Bacterial strains and growth conditions All strains, unless otherwise specified, were grown in Luria–Bertani (LB) at 30 °C with…
Decoding Tomato’s Genetic Defense Against Aluminum Toxicity
Newswise — Acidic soils, which account for nearly 40% of global arable land, release soluble aluminum ions that…
America’s Latest Farmer Crisis Is Government-Grown
Farmers’ Costs Are Up Input costs and trade policy are the most obvious places to start. As Bloomberg…
A genome-wide association analysis reveals new pathogenic pathways in gout
Kuo, C. F. et al. Global epidemiology of gout: prevalence, incidence and risk factors. Nat. Rev. Rheumatol. 11,…
Efficient sequence alignment against millions of prokaryotic genomes with LexicMap
Probe generation Probes, also referred to as ‘masks’ in the LexicHash paper, consist of a fixed number (m = 20,000…
Camelina’s Genetic Blueprint: Unraveling Subgenome Dominance and Population Structure
Newswise — Camelina sativa, also known as false-flax, is gaining attention as a biofuel crop due to its…
Robust and accurate Bayesian inference of genome-wide genealogies for hundreds of genomes
An overview of the SINGER algorithm SINGER takes in phased WGS data and samples ARGs iteratively by adding…
Multiancestry brain pQTL fine-mapping and integration with genome-wide association studies of 21 neurologic and psychiatric conditions
Ethics Our study complies with all relevant ethical regulations and was approved by the institutional review boards at…
Brits cheesed off as Trump gives EU a better dairy deal – POLITICO
“Overall, U.K. dairy — and cheesemakers in particular — have been presented with a worse deal than their…
The Difficulty in Defining ‘Bad’ Foods – Joel Harold Tannenbaum
Ultra-processed foods seem to be on everyone’s lips lately—and not just as a salty snack. A widely reported…
India changes gear with new trade deal
In May 2025, India and the United Kingdom concluded a landmark free-trade agreement (FTA) after three years of…