obesity

Nutraceuticals can be cultivated in controlled environments through synthetic biology, removing dependency on arable land and water resources.

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Insights from the natural world are helping us better understand why we overeat and how to rebalance our food system to address the problem.

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Since the discovery of insulin, diabetes treatment has made huge advances, but the condition has grown into a global killer.

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The link between sweets and diabetes has introduced a new challenge that sweets shops have decided to tackle head-on.

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There is no escape from them as they are in the air we breathe and in the everyday products we use.

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Measuring microplastics in humans is challenging but researchers already have preliminary figures.

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To reduce the threat of microplastics in our bodies, we need to reduce the use of plastics in the environment.

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Scientists are warning against grave long-term consequences.

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Our world is not suffering from a lack of calories, but a lack of good nutrition which can sustain us. Science might just have the answers.

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Reports of a diabetes tsunami are hiding a key part of the picture. There’s a good reason the numbers are increasing.

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