While cancer cells have been known to compete with each other for resources, it seems that they have also found a way to work together to gather nutrients. When exposed to amino acids, cells can ...

The agricultural sector and food producers face an ever-pressing challenge: how to support the global food system while reducing reliance on finite resources or synthetic inputs. Achieving this is ...

Lynette Abbott continues her discussion on soil health by examining the effects of fertilisers on soil organisms ...

In an office park on a leafy side street in Mountain View, California, a few miles from the headquarters of Google and Facebook, NovoNutrients CEO David Tze is showing off a technology so powerful, it ...

The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) protein complexes regulate cell growth in response to nutrients. However, the first step of this pathway (how nutrients regulate activation of mTOR complexes) ...

Debate over how diet affects neurodevelopment has circulated for decades, especially in relation to autism spectrum disorders. Although nutrition has long been considered a possible factor, the ...