University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have shown, for the first time, that reduced dietary potassium promotes elevated aortic stiffness in a mouse model, as compared with normal-potassium-fed mice

Soils keep plants healthy by providing plants with water, helpful minerals, and microbes, among other benefits. But what if the soil also contains toxic elements?

New findings reinforce recent research that suggests cultures with plant-based diets tend to have lower colon cancer rates than cultures with meat-based diets

UGA researchers pinpoint a mutation that triggered the development of the modern tomato from its tiny berry-sized ancestor

Research uncovers why people wind up crying when they chop an onion

UMass Amherst study shows modest but significant lower risk.

Researchers identify peas good for consumers, bottom line

Study provides valuable information that can be used to breed spinach with better disease-resistance, higher yield, and better quality

A researcher at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has studied the properties produced due to feeding with ammonium despite generating less growth than the nitrate

While continued work in this area is needed to replicate and extend these exciting findings, they do suggest that what we eat as we age could be critically important to the maintenance of our brain health