Day: October 18, 2026

For decades, phytosterols—the plant-derived sterols found in vegetable oils, nuts, seeds, and grains—have been regarded as dietary bystanders. Unlike cholesterol, roughly half of which is absorbed from the intestine, only about five percent

Deep in the Amazon, five species of palm tree have fed and sheltered local communities for centuries, their oily fruits pressed into drinks, oils, and everyday tools. Now, for the first time, scientists

When people living with HIV in Shiraz, Iran’s largest city in the south, first walk through the doors of the regional referral center, many are already carrying a dangerous secret in their blood.