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Food and nutrition

Miral Dizdaroglu wears safety glasses as he poses in the lab next to an open spectrometer, which looks a little like a microwave with extra buttons.

How We Studied DNA Damage in Cooked Food — and What It Might Mean for Our Health

September 20, 2023

When you eat plants or meat, you’re also eating a tiny amount of that plant or animal’s DNA. But what happens to that plant or animal DNA when you cook the food

Melissa Phillips, wearing safety glasses, poses leaning over an open chest freezer, holding a plastic bag of spinach.

Organic, Vegetarian or Carnivore: Whatever You Eat, My Lab Is Working to Keep It Safe

May 18, 2023

The levels of contaminants in our food supply are, generally, decreasing, but we still need to make sure our food is safe. And measuring tiny things (and big

Going Nuts over NIST’s Standard Reference Peanut Butter

January 25, 2016

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How We Studied DNA Damage in Cooked Food — and What It Might Mean for Our Health

Organic, Vegetarian or Carnivore: Whatever You Eat, My Lab Is Working to Keep It Safe

Going Nuts over NIST’s Standard Reference Peanut Butter

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