Feature: Cultured Meat Advances Toward the Market

By Abby Olena

The biotech industry is chipping away at the obstacles standing between the lab and the dinner plate.

Different Dietary Fibers Affect the Body in Unique Ways

By Rachael Moeller Gorman

Acting through the microbiome, the fiber arabinoxylan reduces cholesterol in many people, while another fiber, called long-chain inulin, increases inflammation, a study finds.

Humans Domesticated Yeast Through Bread-Making: Study

By Max Kozlov

Over centuries of cultivating Saccharomyces cerevisiae to make dough, bakers have put selective pressure on the species, causing it to diverge into two distinct groups, according to the authors.

Fossilized Fish Teeth Could Be Earliest Evidence of Cooking

By Katherine Irving

Study authors say the teeth, dated around 780,000 years old, push back the date humans are known to have engaged in cooking by more than 600,000 years.

Domesticated Chickens Were Initially Friends, Not Food

By Amanda Heidt

Analyses of bones found across the world suggest that the birds entered human settlements more recently than previously thought. But they don’t seem to have immediately made their way to the table, raising questions as to why people started keeping them.

How the Gut Differentiates Artificial Sweeteners from Sugars

By Chloe Tenn

Signals from sweeteners and sugars are relayed from the gut to the brain by different neural pathways, a new study concludes.

Opinion: Eating Right to Avoid Catastrophe

By Giulia Wegner and Kris A. Murray

The key to averting cataclysmic events, such as pandemics, climate change, and mass extinction of species, lies partly in what’s on our plates.

Webinar: The Persistence of (T Cell) Memory: Towards Cellular Therapy for Solid Tumors

By The Scientist Creative Services Team

In this webinar, Douglas Green will describe how early events in T cell activation influence anti-tumor immunity.

Poster: Simplifying Spatial and Molecular Profiling with End-to-End Services

By Canopy Biosciences

A visual guide to streamlining high-plex, high-throughput workflows

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