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Humans need many different food nutrients if they are to stay healthy and reduce the risk of diet-related disease. Dietary Reference Values are the amounts of nutrients that people need to stay healthy -- but how are they calculated? This video explains.

Watch immune cells navigate using probing "limbs" to find the widest path.

Plants have been developed that can make nanomaterials called metal-organic frameworks. The augmented plants could potentially perform useful new functions, such as sensing chemicals or harvesting light more efficiently.

Lead leaching from pipes into the water supply is a serious public health concern. And if water sources or treatment regimens are changed, the new chemistry can cause water distribution systems that were previously safe to begin releasing toxic lead. Scientists will describe a cost- effective and quick method that could overcome these problems and make lead pipes safe for carrying drinking water.

Since 2011, the Agricultural Greater Good Initiative has awarded grants to researchers using Illumina technology to help alleviate global hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. Meet the grant winners throughout the years and learn more about their research that’s making tangible contributions to the agricultural community.

During this International Year of the Periodic Table we are sharing the story of two of chemistry’s most brilliant and bold women, their paths to and how they changed the world as we know it.

Adam and Neil Pearson are identical twins, but you’d never know it from looking at them. Although they share the same DNA, their appearances are vastly different; each suffers from neurofibromatosis, a rare genetic disorder that has affected them in divergent ways. They tell their story in this deeply moving short documentary.

Jen visits the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to meet Tim Goulette and William Dixon, food science Ph.D. students.

Code of the Wild explores the public and secret worlds of genetic engineering. Award-winning producer/director Cody Sheehy and CRISPR scientist Samira Kiani filmed for 18 months in United States and China documenting the biohackers and scientists involved in editing humans. Their team brought world attention to the secret work of Dr. Jiankui He, who first enhanced human babies in an attempt to make them immune to HIV. This story is at the heart of a revolution that will transform how we live and how we die.

Food may contain different chemicals, both natural and man-made and some of them may raise health concerns depending on their toxicity and levels in our bodies. Find out how we assess risks posed by multiple chemicals from one of EFSA's scientists.