Folic acid is essential to help you prevent neural tube defects during pregnancy. Taking folic acid may help lower your risk of stroke and slow age-related macular degeneration. Folic acid is the ...

You know that exfoliating your face is the best shortcut to glowy skin, but the idea of slathering acid all over your face may not seem very appealing. Don’t let the term dissuade you, though: Acids ...

When acidic components get into rain or other forms of precipitation, acid rain can make trees die. It won't hurt you to walk or swim in acid rain, but the particles that cause it may hurt your lungs ...

CRISPR has the power to correct genetic mutations, but current delivery methods are either unsafe or inefficient, keeping the technology from reaching its full medical potential. With the power to ...

In short, AHAs work by exfoliating, and that process makes skin look instantly more refreshed. Though a scrub can also remove dead cells, chemically exfoliating with alpha hydroxy acid products can go ...

Stimulant medicines are the most common way doctors treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). But you might be looking for ways to help with your ADHD symptoms without the possible side ...

A research team has found that compounds in the nucleic acids derived from food can inhibit the growth of certain cancer cells. When people eat, they ingest the nucleic acids that reside in all living ...

When people eat, they ingest the nucleic acids that reside in all living things. The compounds in these acids could inhibit the growth of cancer cells, according to findings published in PLOS ONE by ...

I’m nasty, but useful in the lab. What molecule am I? In German Patent 182,287 (1905), inventor Max le Blanc of Leipzig described an electrolytic method for the continuous production for chromic acid ...

Eli Lilly has opened a $700 million R&D center in the Boston Seaport, boosting its RNA and DNA research capabilities and expanding its biotech-hosting Gateway Labs to the East Coast for the first time ...

Abstract: Nucleic acid extraction is the first step in nucleic acid analysis. Currently, designing an efficient, robust, and automated nucleic acid extraction system has been a challenging topic.