ROCKFORD — Dr. Mian-Ying Wang, research associate professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford, received lifetime achievement, best oral presentation, best publication, and ...

"We ran into challenges." That was how Thierry Sorhaitz explained the dramatic drop in sales of Morinda Inc.’s Tahitian Noni Juice for the past two years. Sorhaitz is Morinda general manager for the ...

I received an invitation to a symposium recently. Well, I thought that was what it was, for the invitation and the programme were in Vietnamese and there were only three words that I understood: Hanoi ...

Australia (Queensland; Northern Territory): fruit edible, reported bitter. India (area unspecified): green fruit eaten. Hawaii: fruit eaten. Tahiti: fruit eaten ...

Scientists have now discovered why the fruit fly Drosophila sechellia is adapted to the toxic fruits of the morinda tree. Drosophila sechellia females carry a mutation in a gene that inhibits egg ...

In the course of evolution, animals have become adapted to certain food sources, sometimes even to plants or to fruits that are actually toxic. The driving forces behind such adaptive mechanisms are ...

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