Folks who struggle to reduce their carb intake might be able to blame ancient DNA still lurking in humans, a new study ...

Milk is a nutrient-rich liquid essential for newborns and adults. However, it often gets adulterated with harmful substances ...

A new study has suggested that the ability to start digesting starchy foods in the mouth may have developed before the split ...

Research has revealed that humans may have developed the ability to start digesting carbohydrates in the mouth long before ...

That study, in the journal Nature, suggested that humans acquired more copies of amylase genes with the arrival of ...

OUR love of fish and chips goes back almost a million years, a study reveals. Neanderthals and cavemen had the same gene that ...

Humanity’s love of carbohydrates started 800,000 years ago when cavemen developed genes to break down starchy food, a study ...

Analyzing the genomes of 68 ancient humans, including a 45,000-year-old sample from Siberia, the researchers found that ...

Not sure if you have fine hair? Take a strand of hair and rub it between your fingers. If you can't really feel it, that means your hair is fine—which means you want to look for a dry shampoo that can ...

Researchers have found that the gene for starch-digesting saliva may have first duplicated more than 800,000 years ago.

Study co-led by UB finds the gene for starch-digesting saliva may have first duplicated more than 800,000 years ago, seeding the genetic variation that shapes our modern diet.

Research indicates that our capacity to process starches, crucial for consuming foods like bread, originated over 800,000 ...