Food and Agriculture

Integrating dietary treatments with chemotherapy and immunotherapy has emerged as a viable technique to improve cancer treatment success in recent years. One such example are ketogenic diets, which have garnered attention for their anti-tumor and anti-inflammatory characteristics among various dietary treatments. This review examines the effect of a ketogenic diet in combination with chemotherapy or immunotherapy on cancer patient survival rates.

Climate change and a continuously growing population have increased demands on global food yields. However, meeting the planet’s hunger needs does not have to come at the price of depleting its natural resources. A possible sustainable solution to this issue is the perennialization of all staple grain crops. This review analyzes the successes, challenges, and applications of the perennialization of staple grain crops such as sorghum, corn, rice, and wheat.

Roughly 30% of people worldwide are overweight or obese. In the past four decades, obesity rates have nearly doubled in over seventy countries. Overweight and obese individuals are at higher risk for various illnesses such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease. A healthy diet and exercise are known methods to combat and prevent obesity. Unfortunately, many people with low ...

In December of 2016, Walters, et al. released a scientific article detailing the discovery of mRNA that were capped by nicotinamide adenosine dinucleotide (NAD). Typically, mRNA are capped at the 5’ end by an adenine triphosphate (ATP) molecule, which provides a signal to RNA polymerase II that allows for the initiation of transcription. When studying the mRNAs of ...

Breast cancer is the second most fatal cancer to women worldwide, and although early detection screening and treatments have improved, there is still a high death rate. The American Cancer Society predicts a death toll of 40,890 women in 2016 due to breast cancer. Most of these fatalities will result from metastasis, in which cancer cells in the body grow to large proportions, disrupting ...

In a paper published in Nature Communications on April 15, researchers profiled the gut microbiota of a group of hunter-gatherers in Tanzania known as the Hadza. They compared the results to those of people living in Italy, and found that the two groups have very different species composition. The Hadza don’t only have different kinds of gut microbes than Westerners, but a more diverse ...

Green tea has been said to have several health benefits including helping prevent certain types of cancer and inflammation. In a new study done by Dr. Beglinger and Dr. Borgwardt at the University of Basel in Switzerland, they have found that green tea extract enhances cognitive functions, particularly the working memory because green tea extract increases the brain’s ...