Certain viruses like dengue and Zika can make their hosts smell tastier to mosquitoes. Luckily, vitamin A and its derivatives may help combat these odor changes.
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The food we eat influences our bodies’ immune responses to infection. So focusing on nutrition is one thing we can do to help protect ourselves in the face of the coronavirus threat.
Something exciting is going on – no thanks to the supplements industry.
Anti-ageing cosmetics are common and many contain forms of vitamin A, but are there any risks using vitamin A on your skin during pregnancy?
Micronutrient deficiencies are not well understood as an aspect of malnutrition. The problem is that such deficiencies increase a range of health risks.
School-age children with vitamin A deficiencies are more likely to get gastrointestinal and respiratory illnesses, according…
Recently Zac Goldsmith MP – a former editor of The Ecologist, no less – branded the views of Environment Secretary Owen Patterson as “grotesque” after the minister called anti-GM campaigners “wicked…
Without vitamins in our diet we wouldn’t survive but taking too many can be harmful. There’s a limit to how much we actually need. However, since the discovery of vitamins - or “vital amines” as they were…
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Professor of Biochemistry, University of Aberdeen
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Senior lecturer in Pharmacology, University of Adelaide
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Director DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security, University of the Western Cape
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Professor and Director, Metabolic Biology, John Innes Centre
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Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Assistant Professor of Immunology, University of Connecticut
